The Arles Amphitheatre is a Roman amphitheatre in the southern French town of Arles. Two-tiered, it is probably the most prominent tourist attraction from the city which thrived in Ancient Rome. The towers jutting out from the top are medieval add-ons. Built in 90 AD, the amphitheatre held over 20,000 spectators of chariot races and bloody hand-to-hand battles. Lately, it draws smaller crowds for bullfighting during the Feria d’Arles as […]
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Les Champs Libres (literally The Free Fields) is a cultural center in Rennes, France hosting the Library of Rennes Métropole, the Museum of Brittany, the Espace des sciences (and its planetarium), and the Cantine numérique rennaise. There are also a conference hall and an exhibition room.
The Robert-Tatin museum is an “ art environment ” created by the artist Robert Tatin , between 1962 and 1983 , on the place called La Frénouse in Cossé-le-Vivien , in Mayenne . At the origin of the site is an old house that the artist has fitted out to live there with his wife. Over the years, he has built an estate decorated with large sculptures in colored cement, […]
Memorial Pegasus at Ranville in Lower Normandy is a museum and memorial to the 6th Airborne Division in the Normandy landings and particular Operation Deadstick. The museum building exhibits artifacts, exhibitions and personal objects related to the 6th Airborne Division. A three-acre park contains the Pegasus Bridge, the replica of the Horsa glider and memorials to the men of Operation Deadstick.
The Bemberg Foundation is an art foundation located in Toulouse in the hotel d’Assézat , and presenting the rich private art collection of the collector Georges Bemberg , bringing together paintings, sculptures and objects of ancient and modern art that this one loaned to the municipality of Toulouse in order to make them accessible to as many people as possible. The foundation, besides being a museum, also […]
The Muséum de Toulouse (Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de la ville de Toulouse, MHNT) is a museum of natural history in Toulouse, France. It is in the Busca-Montplaisir, houses a collection of more than 2.5 million items, and has some 3,000 square metres of exhibition space. Collections: Prehistory Botany Entomology Lepidoptera Orthoptera Mineralogy Ornithology Osteology Paleontology Vertebrates
The Fort-Mardyck Zoological Park – Dunkerque Grand Littoral is a French zoological park located in Fort-Mardyck in the North . The park presents more than 270 animals of 70 different species of mammals and birds . It is part of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
The Dunkirk Contemporary Art and Action Center ( LAAC ), formerly the Dunkirk Contemporary Art Museum , is a contemporary art museum made up of a building and a sculpture garden. At the heart of a garden of sculptures, water, stone and wind, in the immediate vicinity of the beach, the LAAC defies the sky with its astonishing architecture. Sparkling and joyful like the pop […]
The Dali Museum of Beaune or Dalineum is a former art museum (open from 2011 to 2018 ) in Beaune in Côte-d’Or in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté , dedicated to the Catalan master artist of surrealism Salvador Dalí ( 1904 – 1989 ) . About 150 works from this large collection can be shown at a time, and these can be drawings, prints, watercolours, gouaches, furniture or photographs. One of the most unique displays is the complete table service (cutlery, glasses crockery), designed by the […]
Directly in front of the Hôtel-Dieu there’s the Marché aux Vins, which is a fabulous introduction to Burgundy, providing tasting sessions for a general cross-section of the region’s wines , among them several grands crus – if you’re happy to pay a little extra.
The Memorial 14-18 History Center is a free interpretation center located in Souchez . It is dedicated to the events of World War in Artois and French Flanders. The interpretation center presents the First World War on the soil of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. Using contemporary museographic techniques, he stages an exceptional collection of iconographic documents: animated maps, archival photographs, period films and emblematic […]
The Le Secq des Tournelles Museum is an ironwork museum housed in an old disused church in Rouen . The building is located in the Vieux-Marché – Cathedral district, in the immediate vicinity of the Saint-Godard church and the Museum of Fine Arts . After entering it may take a moment to comprehend what you’re looking at: Hanging in the church’s gothic arches and in glass […]
Rouen Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church in Rouen, Normandy, France. It is the see of the Archbishop of Rouen, Primate of Normandy. It is famous for its three towers, each in a different style. The cathedral, built and rebuilt over a period of more than eight hundred years, has features from Early Gothic to late Flamboyant and Renaissance architecture. It also has a place in art history as […]
The museum’s toy is a museum dedicated to toys and games, xix th century to today. It opened in 1993 in a former neighborhood cinema and exhibits more than 1,000 toys on three levels of visit. On three levels the universes merge; old toys alongside cartoon characters; Old bears to the first Barbie dolls through video games, Playmobil , scale models, robots or small trains, the toys and games on display […]
The river is crossed by two charming bridges, on which you can look across to the rows of half-timbered houses opposite Colmar’s old covered market. On the right bank of the river is Krutenau, a once fortified suburb of Colmar where the city’s market gardeners used to live. Brief boat trips through this unforgettable setting […]
The Château d’Amboise is a château in Amboise, located in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt. King Charles VIII died at the château in 1498 after hitting his head on a door lintel. The château fell into decline from the second half of the 16th […]
The Vieux-Tours is a generic term to define a set of districts or towns which have come together over time to form the historic center of the city of Tours . The districts of Vieux-Tours are, from west to east: Notre-Dame-la-Riche, Saint-Martin, Saint-Julien, Saint-Gatien, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps . The Saint-Gatien district is the first town to be established, it corresponds to the city of late Antiquity of Caesarodunum ; it will be the seat of […]
The Jardin botanique de Tours (5 hectares) is a municipal botanical garden and arboretum located at 33, Boulevard Tonnellé, Tours, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is open daily; admission is free. The garden was established by public subscription in 1843 at the initiative of pharmacist Jean-Anthyme Margueron (1771–1848), and is the oldest public garden in the city. In response to the 1841 creation of the city’s Hospice […]
Starting from the 12th century, Dieppe’s fishermen became the biggest fresh fish suppliers of Paris and Rouen. Three quarters of the supply of Parisian markets came from Dieppe in the eighteenth century, by the mean of the „Chasse-Marée“. Today, it’s an important ferry and fishing port, and a pleasant seaside resort.
The Château de Dieppe is a castle in the French town of Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime département. The castle was founded in 1188 by King Henry II of England, and was destroyed in 1195 by King Philip II of France. The site was restored in the 14th century. The castle was later in large part reconstructed in 1433 by Charles des Marets. The castle is composed […]
Serre de la Madone (6 hectares) is a garden in France notable for its design and rare plantings. It is located at 74, Route de Gorbio, Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France. It is open to the public (every day except Monday) during the warm months of the year. In 2008, it was being restored to its former condition. The garden […]
The underground city of Naours is a former chalk quarry that served as a refuge for the inhabitants of the village during the wars and invasions that Picardy experienced. This site is located in the French town of Naours , 14 kilometers as the crow flies north of Amiens , in the Somme department , in the Hauts-de-France region . This underground refuge or muches (“hiding places” in Picard ) includes 28 galleries on […]
The Musée Jules Verne is a museum dedicated to the French writer Jules Verne. It is located in the city of Nantes, France, and was opened in 1978 to mark the 150th anniversary of Verne’s birth. The museum has a collection of artifacts, replicas of his inventions, and memorabilia inspired by his writings. The museum is divided into eight […]
The Canal de la Robine, or Canal de la Robine de Narbonne , is a French canal that connects the Aude and the Mediterranean Sea in the department of Aude in France . With the Canal de Jonction , it constitutes a lateral branch of the Canal du Midi , the branch of La Nouvelle, which connects the Canal du Midi with Narbonne and Port-la-Nouvelle on the Mediterranean. As the Canal du Midi, the Canal de la Robine […]
The Lapidary Museum is a lapidarium-museum in Avignon, France. It has housed the classical Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Gallo-Roman sculptures and objects of the Calvet Museum since the 1980s. As well as Etruria, classical Greece and Rome and the Gallo-Roman era, the collections cover Gallic and Early Christian art. The highlight of the prehistoric collections is the ‚Lauris-Puyvert Stela‘ in ologenic limestone. The Greek, Roman, Etruscan […]
Fontfroide Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in France, situated 15 kilometers south-west of Narbonne near to the Spanish border. It was re-founded in 1858 by monks from Sénanque Abbey. The community was driven out of France by French legal changes in 1901. The premises, which are of very great architectural interest, passed into private hands in 1908, when the artists Gustave and Madeleine Fayet […]
The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over 50 km (31 mi) to the Roman colony of Nemausus (Nîmes). It crosses the river Gardon near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in southern France. The Pont du Gard is the highest of all Roman aqueduct bridges, and one of the best preserved. It was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage Sites in 1985 […]
The Carré d’art at Nîmes in southern France houses a museum of contemporary art and the city’s municipal library. Constructed of glass, concrete and steel, it faces the Maison Carrée, a perfectly preserved Roman temple that dates from the 1st century BC. In 1984, twelve architects, including Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel and César Pelli, were invited to submit proposals for the museum. A design by the […]
The Arena of Nîmes is a Roman amphitheatre, situated in the French city of Nîmes. Built around 70 CE, shortly after the Coliseum of Rome, it is one of the best-preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world. It is 133 meters long (145 yards) and 101 meters wide (110 yards), with an arena measuring 68 meters (74 yards) by 38 meters (32 yards). The outer facade […]
The mine Witness Ales is a mining site located in Ales , in the department of Gard and region Occitan . Open to the public since 1985 , it now presents a retrospective of the activity coal from the mining area of Ales. The scenography of the site was completely overhauled in 2010. Between 2014 and 2020 and following a heavy rainfall event, the visit to this site was closed. Since July 2020 the site has reopened. Duration of the visit: Commented from start to finish, the […]
The Pierre André Benoit museum-library is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Alès . Housed in a neo-classical style building , the Château de Rochebelle, it has been awarded the Musée de France label .
La maison des bois is a 1971 French mini-series, consisting of seven episodes. It was directed by Maurice Pialat and written by René Wheeler, starring Pierre Doris, Jacqueline Dufranne and Agathe Natanson. The mini-series takes place during World War I and tells about the daily life in a French village. Gaumont has released the mini-series on DVD in 2005.
The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race. Comprising private, race-specific sections of track in addition to public roads which remain accessible most of the year, its present […]
Le Mans Cathedral is a Catholic church situated in Le Mans, France. The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Julian of Le Mans, the city’s first bishop, who established Christianity in the area around the beginning of the 4th century. Its construction dated from the 6th through the 14th century, and it features many French Gothic elements. The cathedral, which combines a Romanesque nave and a High Gothic choir, is notable for […]
On a natural site of 2.5 ha, you can discover the hidden life of turtles. From America to the Mediterranean, via Asia and Africa, all continents are represented. You will learn to better understand the life and customs of turtles in these multiple regions of the world. Created by the association A CUPULATTA which means TURTLE in […]
Maison Bonaparte is the ancestral home of the Bonaparte family. It is located on the Rue Saint-Charles in Ajaccio on the French island of Corsica. The house was almost continuously owned by members of the family from 1682 to 1923. The first Bonaparte to live at this understated four-storey house was Napoleon’s great-great grandfather in the late-17th century and the building remained […]