Muscat de Rivesaltes is an Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC) for fortified wines (of the type vin doux naturel) made in the Roussillon wine region of France. They are similar to Rivesaltes AOC wines, except for the grape varieties used. The wine…
Motu One, also known as Bellinghausen, is an atoll in the Leeward group of the Society Islands.
The Montagne Noire (Occitan: Montanha Negra, also known as the Black Mountains in English) is a mountain range in central southern France. It is located at the southwestern end of the Massif Central in the border area of the Tarn, Hérault and Aude d…
The abbey of Saint-Martin-du-Canigou (Catalan: Sant Martí del Canigó) is a monastery built in 1009 in the Pyrenees on Canigou mountain in present day southern France near the Spanish border.
Madeleine is a station on lines 8, 12 and 14 of the Paris Métro in central Paris and the 8th arrondissement.
Luxembourg is an RER station in Paris, France.
The Lot, pronounced: [lɔt], originally the Olt (Occitan: Òlt; Latin: Oltis), is a river in France, right tributary of the Garonne. It rises in the Cévennes, flowing west through Quercy, where it flows into the Garonne near Aiguillon, a total distanc…
Lac d'Aiguebelette is a natural lake in the commune of Aiguebelette-le-Lac, within the department of Savoie, France.
The Jardin des plantes de Montpellier (4.5 hectares) is a historic botanical garden and arboretum located on Boulevard Henri IV, Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
The Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil (French pronunciation: [ʒaʁdɛ̃ de sɛʁ dotøj]) is a botanical garden set within a major greenhouse complex located at the southern edge of the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement, with entry at 1 avenue Gordon…
Italie 13 (or Italie XIII) is the name of a large urbanism project in Paris which started in the 1960s and was interrupted in the 1970s. Its purpose was to profoundly modify the structure of some areas of the 13th arrondissement, mainly around the A…
Sciences Po Bordeaux, or Institut d'études politiques (IEP) de Bordeaux, is a French political science grande école situated on the university campus of Pessac, 8 km from the centre of Bordeaux and is attached to the Montesquieu University - Bordeau…
INSA de Rouen (literally the National Institute of Applied Sciences) is a French grande école, that is to say a five-year curriculum which aims to train engineers who possess humane qualities and are well versed in the primary areas of science and e…
The Hôtel de Ville de Lyon is the city hall of the City of Lyon and one of the largest historic buildings in the city, located between the Place des Terreaux and the Place de la Comédie, in front of the Opera Nouvel.
The House of French writer George Sand (1804-1876) is located in the village of Nohant, in the Indre Department of France. It was purchased by the French state in 1952, and has been preserved as it was when Sand wrote many of her books there and hos…
Les Grands Magasins du Louvre, initially Les Galeries du Louvre, a department store in Paris, France, was founded in 1855, three years after its competitor, Le Bon Marché. Under new management as the Société du Louvre, it closed definitively in 1974…
The Grand Massif is a ski resort located in Haute-Savoie department, France.
The Gouffre Berger is a French cave discovered on 24 May 1953 by Joseph Berger, Bouvet, Ruiz de Arcaute and Marc Jouffray. From 1953 to 1963, it was regarded as the deepest cave in the world at −1,122 metres (−3,681 ft), relinquishing this title to …
George V is a station on line 1 of the Paris Métro, under the Champs-Élysées.
Perpignan is the railway station serving the city of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales department, southern France.
Moûtiers-Salins-Brides-les-Bains is a railway station in the Savoie département of France.
Chambéry-Challes-les-Eaux station is a railway station in the Savoie département of France. The station serves the city of Chambéry.
Gare de Calais-Ville is a railway station in the city centre of Calais, France. It is the principal station for commuter and short distance rail services in Calais. Another station Calais-Fréthun, which is where longer distance services depart from,…
Fréjus Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame et Saint-Etienne) is a Roman Catholic co-cathedral, and a national monument of France, situated in the town of Fréjus in the Var department of Provence, in southeast France.
Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery is a First World War cemetery built by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on the outskirts of Fromelles in northern France, near the Belgian border. Constructed between 2009 and 2010, it was the first …
The Ecole Spéciale de Mécanique et d'Electricité (English traduction: Special School of Mechanics and Electricity), called ESME Sudria, is a French private institution of higher education and research (Grande École d'Ingénieurs) located in in France…
Côte d’Argent (French pronunciation: [kot daʁʒɑ̃], meaning Silver Coast) is a tourist name given to a section of the French Atlantic coast.
The Col d'Aubisque (Occitan: Còth d'Aubisca) (elevation 1,709 m (5,607 ft)) is a mountain pass in the Pyrenees 30 km (19 mi) south of Tarbes and Pau in the department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in the Aquitaine region of France.
The Circuit d'Albi is a motorsport race track near the small South Western French town of Le Sequestre.
The Château de Touffou is a castle, converted into a mansion, in the commune of Bonnes in the Vienne département, near Poitiers, France.
The Château de Puivert is a so-called Cathar castle situated in the commune of Puivert, in the Aude département of France. This building, on top of a hill overhanging the village and its lake, reaches an altitude of 605 m. The site is in the Quercob…
The Château de Montbrun is a castle in the commune of Dournazac in the Haute-Vienne département of France. The castle was built in the 12th and 15th centuries, and was restored in the late 19th.
The Château de Choisy was a sometime royal French residence in the commune of Choisy-le-Roi in the Val-de-Marne department, not far from Paris.
Château Villette, located 40 minutes away from Paris in Condécourt, France, is a manor house hotel containing 18 bedrooms.
Chez Chartier is a Bouillon (restaurant) in Paris founded in 1896, located at 7 Rue du Faubourg-Montmartre in the 9th district and classified as Monument historique in 1989. (Metro access Grands Boulevards)
Cap Corse (Corsican: Capicorsu), a geographical area of Corsica (Corse in French), is a 40 kilometres (25 mi) long peninsula located at the northern tip of the island. At the base of it is the second largest city in Corsica, Bastia.