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6,207 Articles of interest in France

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  • Pont de Neuilly

    Le pont de Neuilly is a road and rail bridge carrying Route nationale 13 and Paris Métro Line 1 which crosses the River Seine between the right bank of Neuilly-sur-Seine and Courbevoie and Puteaux on the left bank in the French department of Hauts-d…

  • Pont Julien

    The Pont Julien (French for Julian Bridge) is a Roman stone arch bridge over the Calavon river in the south-east of France dating to 3 BC.

  • Pont Flavien

    The Pont Flavien (English: Flavian Bridge) is a Roman bridge across the River Touloubre in Saint-Chamas, Bouches-du-Rhône department, southern France. The single-arch crossing, which was built from limestone, was on a Roman road - the Via Julia Augu…

  • Pierre Pflimlin Bridge

    The Pierre Pflimlin Bridge (Pont Pierre Pflimlin in French) is a 957 m long (main span 205 m) motorway bridge over the river Rhine between Germany and France, south of Strasbourg / Kehl.

  • Perthus Tunnel

    The Perthus Tunnel is a twin-bore railway tunnel between France and Spain under the Eastern Pyrenees, built as part of the high-speed railway line Perpignan-Figueres.

  • Paris International Agricultural Show

    Paris International Agricultural Show (French: Salon International de l'Agriculture, or SIA) is an annual agricultural exposition and fair, that takes place end of February or beginning of March at the Paris expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France.

  • Parc naturel régional de Camargue

    Parc naturel régional de Carmague (PNRC), or Regional Nature Park of the Camargue, is a protected area which was designated in 1970 along the shoreline of the Camargue, France. The park protects a wetland environment and an adjacent marine area.

  • Parc des Sports Marcel Michelin

    The Parc des Sports Marcel-Michelin is a stadium located in Clermont-Ferrand, France. It was inaugurated in 1911 and belongs to the rugby union club ASM Clermont-Auvergne. It has the name of Marcel Michelin, manager of the Michelin tire group and fo…

  • Palace of the Kings of Majorca

    The Palace of the Kings of Majorca (French: Palais des Rois de Majorque), is a palace and a fortress with gardens overlooking the city of Perpignan in Pyrenees-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.

  • PSA Rennes Plant

    The PSA Rennes Plant is one of the principal car plants in France, producing approximately 340,000 cars in 2005. The plant was acquired by the PSA Group in 1976 when Peugeot took a majority stake in the Citroën company which had built the plant but …

  • Ortac

    Ortac is a small uninhabited islet about 5 km West of the coast of Alderney near to the islet of Burhou.

  • Orly Air Base

    Orly Air Base was a United States Air Force Facility during the early part of the Cold War, located at Aeroport de Paris-Orly, nine miles (15 km) south of Paris, France.

  • Nançay radio telescope

    The Nançay decimetric radio telescope (Le radiotélescope décimétrique de Nançay (NRT)) is located in the small commune of Nançay, two hours' drive south of Paris, France. The radio telescope saw first light in 1965, after an inauguration by the then…

  • Musée de la Légion d'honneur

    The Musée national de la Légion d'Honneur et des Ordres de Chevalerie (English: National museum of the Legion of Honour and of orders of chivalry) is a museum of national orders of merit located in the 7th arrondissement in the Palais de la Légion d…

  • Musée des Arts Forains

    The Musée des Arts Forains - Collection Jean-Paul Favand is a private museum of funfair objects located within the Pavillons de Bercy in the 12th arrondissement of Paris at 53, avenue des Terroirs de France, Paris, France, with temporary exhibition …

  • Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille

    The Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Lille, or Lille Natural History Museum, was founded in 1822. It houses zoological and geological collections. Its holdings have recently been enhanced by ethnographic specimens from the Musée Moillet and industrial …

  • Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme

    The Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme (French; "Museum of Art and of Jewish History") is a French museum of Jewish art and history located in the Hôtel de Saint-Aignan at 71 rue du Temple in the Marais district in Paris. The museum is open daily…

  • Murbach Abbey

    Murbach Abbey (French: Abbaye de Murbach) was a famous Benedictine monastery in Murbach, southern Alsace, in a valley at the foot of the Grand Ballon in the Vosges.

  • Massif de l'Esterel

    The Esterel Massif (in Occitan Provençal: Esterèu; French: Massif de l'Esterel) is a Mediterranean coastal mountain range in the departments of Var and Alpes-Maritimes in Provence, south-east France.

  • Lyon–Bron Airport

    Lyon–Bron Airport (French: Aéroport de Lyon-Bron) (IATA: LYN, ICAO: LFLY) is an airport located in Bron, 10 kilometres (6 mi) east of Lyon, both communes of the Rhône department in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France.

  • Lycée privé Sainte-Geneviève

    The Lycée Sainte-Geneviève is a private lycée, located in Versailles and providing preparatory classes for grandes écoles. It was founded in Paris, April 1854. It is often nicknamed Ginette and sometimes BJ, standing for Boite à Jèzes - Box of Jesui…

  • Ligugé Abbey

    Ligugé Abbey, formally called the Abbey of St. Martin of Ligugé (French: Abbaye Saint-Martin de Ligugé), is a French Benedictine monastery in the Commune of Ligugé, located in the Department of Vienne. Dating to the 4th century, it is the site of on…

  • Lager Helgoland

    Lager Helgoland was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the Channel Islands, named after the Frisian Island of Heligoland (in German, Helgoland), formerly a Danish and then British possession located 46 kilometres (29 mi) off the German North S…

  • La Palmyre Zoo

    La Palmyre Zoo (French: Zoo de La Palmyre) is a zoo in Les Mathes, Charente-Maritime, France. It was created in 1966 in the forest of the Les Mathes by Claude Caillé.

  • Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

    The Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP; French for "Paris Institute of Earth Physics") is a French governmental, non-profit research and higher education establishment located in Paris, dedicated to the study of earth and planetary science…

  • Grand Hyatt Cannes Hôtel Martinez

    The Grand Hyatt Cannes Hôtel Martinez is a famous art deco style Grand Hotel on the Croisette at Cannes. It was opened on 20 February 1929 by its founder-owner Emmanuel Michele Martinez, son of the Baron Giovanni Martinez and Giuseppa Labiso Costanz…

  • Hautacam

    Hautacam is a ski resort in the Pyrenees. It is situated in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, in the Midi-Pyrénées region.