A Flamboyant Gothic church and monastery built in the early 1500s by Margaret of Austria in memory of her husband, the Duke of Savoy. The church holds three magnificent carved marble tombs, a carved rood screen and a colourful glazed tile roof.
The monastery buildings around three cloisters house the town's museum of art.
A limestone crag rising like the prow of a ship above the vineyards of Pouilly-Fuissé in southern Burgundy.
The remains of the greatest abbey of the Middle Ages, founded in 910, whose church was the largest in Christendom until St Peter's in Rome was built.
Lyon's old town, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, stretches along the Saône river below the hill of Fourvière, with Renaissance houses, the Gothic Saint…
A village and its old abbey at the bottom of a deep limestone valley, a 'reculée' typical of the Jura, closed off by cliffs over 200 metres high.
A series of 31 waterfalls on the Hérisson river in the Jura mountains, among them the Éventail, which fans out over 65 metres of rock, and the Grand …
The country house where Voltaire spent his last 20 years, a short way from the Swiss border so that he could flee if he got into trouble.
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