A moated 18th-century château in Lorraine, built by the architect Germain Boffrand for the Prince of Craon, with 365 windows, 52 chimneys and 12 towers for the days, weeks and months of the year. It is still lived in by the same family.
The rooms keep their original furniture and decorations, and the formal gardens surround the moat.
A rounded summit of the southern Vosges mountains, 1,247 metres high, where Alsace, Lorraine and Franche-Comté meet.
Colmar is the most picturesque town in Alsace, with colourful half-timbered houses, flower boxes and canals.
Strasbourg's pink sandstone cathedral, with a single spire 142 m high, was the tallest building in the world for over 200 years.
An extraordinary clock built between 1858 and 1860, in the cathedral of Saint-Jean, with over 30,000 parts and 57 dials showing the time around the w…
A moated château in the Burgundy countryside where the witty courtier Roger de Bussy-Rabutin was exiled by Louis XIV after writing a scandalous book …
The former palace of the archbishops of Reims, beside the cathedral, where French kings stayed and feasted on the day of their coronation.
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