A car-free island off Hyères, part of the Port-Cros National Park, with pine woods, vineyards, cliffs and some of the most beautiful beaches in France, such as the Plage Notre-Dame and the Plage d'Argent. Hire a bike in the village to explore its tracks.
Ferries leave from the Tour Fondue on the Giens peninsula. The Fondation Carmignac has a contemporary art museum on the island.
One of the three Cistercian sister abbeys of Provence, built in the 12th century in a wooded valley, a masterpiece of pure, unadorned Romanesque arch…
A spectacular road along the top of the highest sea cliffs in mainland France, from Cassis to La Ciotat.
The most beautiful of the calanques, the narrow limestone inlets of the Calanques National Park between Marseille and Cassis.
A range of red volcanic rock plunging into the blue Mediterranean between Saint-Raphaël and Cannes, crossed by the spectacular coast road, the Cornic…
The great white limestone ridge east of Aix-en-Provence, painted more than 80 times by Paul Cézanne.
A fortress on a tiny island in the bay of Marseille, built by François I and later a prison, made famous by Alexandre Dumas's The Count of Monte Cris…
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