The largest Gothic cathedral in France, built in the 13th century, with a nave so vast that two Notre-Dames of Paris would fit inside. The west front is covered in carved figures, once brightly painted; on summer and Christmas evenings a light show recreates the colours.
Climb the towers for views over the city and its floating gardens, the Hortillonnages, which you can tour by boat.
A huge tidal bay of sandflats and salt marshes, one of the most beautiful in the world, home to France's largest colony of seals.
A fairytale castle with towers, battlements and a drawbridge, rebuilt from medieval ruins in the 1860s by the architect Viollet-le-Duc for Napoleon I…
The ruins of one of the mightiest castles of the Middle Ages, built in the 13th century by the powerful lords of Coucy, on a spur above the Ailette v…
The Renaissance château of François I, where in 1539 he signed the ordinance that made French the language of law and government.
A modernist mansion built in 1932 by Robert Mallet-Stevens for a textile industrialist, with sleek yellow brick walls, a long mirror pool and every d…
A masterpiece of French classical architecture by François Mansart, built in the 1640s for a finance minister, which inspired the later palace at Ver…
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