A royal and then presidential château southwest of Paris, used by French presidents to host summits until 2009. In the park are two delightful follies built for Marie Antoinette: the Queen's Dairy, a temple for tasting milk, and the Shell Cottage, its walls covered in shells.
The Bergerie nationale, a royal sheep farm with merino sheep, and the surrounding forest make it a good day out.
The vast palace of Louis XIV, the 'Sun King', and the seat of the French court until the Revolution.
One of the most perfect Gothic cathedrals, built mostly between 1194 and 1220 and keeping almost all its original stained glass, famous for its deep …
Le Corbusier's famous white villa, built in 1931 as a weekend house and one of the most influential buildings of the 20th century.
A large park on a hillside above the Seine, laid out by André Le Nôtre around a royal château that burned down in 1870.
A masterpiece of French classical architecture by François Mansart, built in the 1640s for a finance minister, which inspired the later palace at Ver…
Built for the 1889 World's Fair, the 330 m tower has three levels open to visitors.
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