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Places to visit in France

132 towns, cities and natural areas we have written up, with our picks first.

A stone religious building featuring a rounded apse with arched windows and a conical roof, viewed from a garden with green foliage in the foreground.

Auvergne

Souvigny

Old Bourbon town with a great Cluniac priory church
The blind valley of Baume-les-Messieurs with the village below the cliffs

Franche-Comté

Baume-les-messieurs

Jura village with imperial abbey, caves, and dramatic cliffs
The Romanesque abbey church of Saint-Austremoine in Issoire

Auvergne

Issoire

Romanesque abbey town in Auvergne
The Romanesque portal of Saint-Lazare cathedral in Autun

Burgundy

Autun

Ancient Gallo-Roman city with Romanesque cathedral in Burgundy
A large stone château with conical-roofed towers situated on the bank of a river under a blue sky.

Centre-Val de Loire

La Guerche

Tiny Touraine village above the Creuse with a fifteenth-century château
The image shows a stone bridge with a wooden pedestrian walkway and railings spanning a small, calm river, flanked by green grass and trees, with a stone building visible in the background on the left bank.

Île-de-France

Maincy

Village near Melun that holds the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
An elevated view of a village center featuring a stone church with a clock tower, an adjacent cemetery, and surrounding residential buildings along a road.

Franche-Comté

La Cluse-et-Mijoux

Mountain village below the Fort de Joux, in the pass south of Pontarlier
The Gothic Sainte-Chapelle of Riom seen across a garden lawn and pond

Auvergne

Riom

Historic Auvergne town with Sainte-Chapelle and museums
Rocky headland at the Pointe du Raz near Plogoff, with La Vieille rock in the sea

Brittany

Plogoff

Last village before the Pointe du Raz, on the Cap Sizun
A narrow, upward-sloping cobblestone alleyway flanked by tall, weathered stone walls of an old European village, leading to a blue wooden door at the top.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Saignon

Hilltop village in Luberon with panoramic views and rocky summit
Île Vierge lighthouse off the coast of Plouguerneau, Brittany

Brittany

Plouguerneau

Seaweed coast of the Abers, facing the Île Vierge lighthouse
A large, multi-story historical building with a distinctive corner tower and red stone quoins, situated next to a small stream or canal with overgrown vegetation in the foreground.

Alsace

Mutzig

Brewing town where the Bruche valley meets the Alsace plain

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