A limestone crag rising like the prow of a ship above the vineyards of Pouilly-Fuissé in southern Burgundy. Prehistoric hunters camped at its foot for over 25,000 years, and gave their name to the Solutrean culture.
The climb to the top takes about 30 minutes, with views over the Saône valley to the Alps on clear days. President Mitterrand climbed it every year.
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.
A Flamboyant Gothic church and monastery built in the early 1500s by Margaret of Austria in memory of her husband, the Duke of Savoy.
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 charity hospital founded in 1443, with a dazzling roof of coloured glazed tiles in geometric patterns over its courtyard.
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.
The great Celtic hilltop town of the Aedui tribe, on the wooded summit of Mont Beuvray in the Morvan, where Vercingetorix was chosen to lead the Gaul…
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