15 Best Things to Do in Ajaccio (France)
The capital of the Corse-du-Sud has the happy knack of packaging all of the things that people adore about Corsica. You’ve got history, because Napoleon Bonaparte was born and baptised …
15 Best Things to Do in Bergerac (France)
On the serene Dordogne River, Bergerac is a medieval town of corbelled houses surrounded by green countryside with vineyards and farms. You’re in an eminent wine region here, and have …
15 Best Things to Do in Limoges (France)
Fair to say that Limoges has always been good with its hands: First with its luxuriant painted enamels in the middle ages, and then later when the city became one …
15 Best Things to Do in Metz (France)
The administrative centre of France’s new Grand Est region, Metz has been a base of power for more than 2,000 years. The Cour d’Or museum, which illuminates eastern France’s late-antiquity …
15 Best Things to Do in Grasse (France)
Grasse, on the French Riviera, is the fragrance capital of France and can be an olfactory odyssey if you have a passion for perfumes. The town has an international museum …
15 Best Things to Do in Provence (France)
The mere mention of Provence conjures some the most idyllic images of lavender fields, sunflowers, olive groves, cicadas, vineyards and that indescribable light that inspired the post-impressionist painters like Cézanne. …
15 Best Things to Do in Brittany (France)
In northwest France Brittany is a region with an identity, landscape and even a language, all of its own. It is one of the six Celtic Nations and has a …
15 Best Things to Do in Versailles (France)
The Château of Versailles is the pinnacle of 17th and 18th-century luxury. It’s a manifestation of the excess of the Ancien Régime and is dumbfounding in its opulence, with grounds …
15 Best Things to Do in Alsace (France)
Alsace is right on the border with Germany, and having been contested by France and its neighbour for centuries, this region has been left with a character that combines the …
15 Best Things to Do in Corsica (France)
The cliffs, mountains, gorges and towering pinnacles in Corsica’s extraordinary landscapes can almost look impenetrable. But if you’re persistent and love hiking rocky trails or driving precarious mountain roads your …