Attractions
Louvre Museum, Paris
Paris
The world's most visited museum, in the former royal palace on the Seine, entered through I.
Attractions in France
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Monet's House and Gardens, Giverny
Les Andelys, Eure
The house where Claude Monet lived for 43 years, and the gardens he created and painted again and again: a flower garden bursting with colour, and ac…
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Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Paris
A former railway station on the Left Bank of the Seine, now home to the world's greatest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art: Mone…
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Fonseranes locks, Canal du Midi
Béziers, Hérault
A staircase of eight locks on the Canal du Midi at Béziers, lifting boats 21 metres up the hillside, one of the great feats of Pierre-Paul Riquet's 1…
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Hennessy cognac house tour, Cognac
Cognac, Charente
Cognac, a small town on the Charente River, is the home of the brandy of the same name, and the great cognac houses offer tours in several languages.
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Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris
Paris
The house and studio of the Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, which he designed as his own museum before he died in 1898.
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Besançon astronomical clock
Besançon, Doubs
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…