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Paris
The most photographed city on earth, which still hands an empty Trocadéro to anyone willing to be there at sunrise.
Versailles
The gardens of the Sun King forty minutes from Paris — geometry, fountains and gilded gates built to be looked at.
Nice
A seven-kilometre curve of bay, blue chairs on the Promenade and an old town in Italian ochre — the Riviera's easiest light.
Cannes
Red-carpet glamour on the Croisette with a medieval hill village hiding behind it, facing the sunset over the bay.
Antibes
Sea ramparts, Europe's biggest yacht harbour and a wild cape footpath — the Riviera with its walls still on.
Èze
A stone eagle's nest four hundred metres above the sea, crowned by a cactus garden with the Riviera's biggest view.
Saint-Tropez
A fishing village that became a myth — pastel quays, a citadel over the gulf and Pampelonne's five kilometres of sand.
Aix-en-Provence
Cézanne's city of fountains and plane trees, golden stone that earns its name at the end of the afternoon.
Avignon
A papal palace, a half-bridge into the Rhône and ramparts all the way round — medieval scale with Provençal light.
Gordes
The Luberon's postcard — a dry-stone village stacked on its cliff, with a lavender abbey hidden in the valley behind.
Cassis
A pastel fishing port wedged between Europe's highest sea cliff and the white limestone fjords of the calanques.
Amboise
A royal château above the Loire, Leonardo's last house up the lane, and a riverbank that hands you the whole scene at sunset.
Château de Chambord
The most extravagant roofline in France, floating over its own reflection — and a lawn built for wide, empty frames.
Mont Saint-Michel
An abbey on a rock that the sea surrounds and abandons twice a day — the frame changes with the tide, so the tide sets the schedule.
Étretat
White chalk cliffs carved into an arch and a needle — the coast Monet painted, still doing the same light.
Chamonix
A valley town living under Mont Blanc, where a cable car puts you at 3,842 metres before the clouds arrive.
Annecy
Turquoise canals through a pastel old town, a lake of alpine glass at the end of the street — and a bridge literally named for lovers.
Strasbourg
Half-timbered Petite France on the water, and a pink sandstone cathedral that catches fire in the evening light.
Colmar
Alsace at its most concentrated — candy-coloured half-timbered lanes and a canal quarter that earns the name Little Venice.
Bordeaux
Golden 18th-century facades along a river bend, doubled in the world's largest reflecting pool.
Biarritz
Belle Époque elegance on a wild Atlantic shore — imperial villas above the surf and a Virgin on a rock at the end of a footbridge.
Carcassonne
A complete medieval city on a hill — three kilometres of double walls and fifty-two towers that turn copper at golden hour.
Lyon
Two rivers, a Renaissance old town of ochre and pink, hidden passages through the buildings, and a basilica watching the whole city from the hill.
Marseille & the Calanques
France's oldest city, a working harbour under a golden Madonna — and white limestone inlets fifteen minutes from the last bus stop.
Corsica
An island of white cliffs, Genoese citadels and water that turns turquoise over sand — mountains in the sea, as the islanders say.
Valensole & the lavender fields
The purple plateau every Provence photograph is chasing — and a window of about three weeks in which it actually looks like that.
Honfleur & Deauville
The harbour the Impressionists painted first, and twenty minutes away the boardwalk of striped parasols and named beach huts.
Saint-Malo
A granite city walled against the Atlantic, where the biggest tides in Europe hand you a different set of photographs twice a day.
Château de Chenonceau & the Loire
The château built as a bridge — five arches standing in the river Cher, and a perfect reflection whenever the water is still.
Les Baux & Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
A village carved into a limestone spur above the Alpilles, and below it the plane-tree town where Van Gogh painted the olive groves.
Île de Ré & La Rochelle
Whitewashed lanes with green shutters and hollyhocks, a fortified harbour, salt marshes at dusk — and two medieval towers guarding the mainland port.
Beaune & the Côte d'Or
A walled wine town with a medieval hospital under a roof of glazed tiles, and grand cru vineyards that start where the last street ends.
Reims & the Champagne vineyards
The coronation cathedral of the kings of France, chalk cellars under the boulevards, and a hillside of vines twenty minutes out of town.
Saint-Émilion
A limestone village in a bowl of vines, built over a church carved whole out of the rock beneath it.
Sarlat & the Dordogne
A golden-stone medieval town with almost no modern building in it, and a river valley of clifftop castles half an hour downstream.
Arles & the Camargue
A Roman amphitheatre still standing in the middle of town, the café Van Gogh painted yellow, and salt flats with white horses an hour south.
Giverny
Monet's own garden, kept the way he planted it — a pink house behind flower borders, and a pond with the green Japanese bridge over it.
Villefranche-sur-Mer & Cap-Ferrat
One of the deepest natural harbours in the Mediterranean, an ochre old town stacked above it, and Cap-Ferrat's gardens and coast path around the headland.
Saint-Paul-de-Vence
A walled hill village twenty minutes above the coast — one long stone street, a full ring of ramparts, and modern art in the pines below.
Menton
The last town before Italy — pastel houses stacked up to a baroque campanile, and gardens that keep flowering all winter.
Monaco
A whole country on a strip of coast — the palace on its Rock, superyachts in Port Hercule and Monte-Carlo's Belle Époque casino, twenty minutes from Nice.
Saint-Raphaël & the Estérel
Red volcanic cliffs over turquoise coves along the Corniche d'Or, a tower-topped islet off Cap Dramont, and a Belle Époque seafront where it all starts.
Riquewihr & the Alsace Wine Route
A walled wine village the wars left standing — one climbing street of half-timbered houses, and the Route des Vins running out of both gates.
Tours & the Loire châteaux
The Loire Valley's capital — a half-timbered café square, a cathedral of flamboyant stone, and Villandry and Azay-le-Rideau half an hour out.
Fontainebleau & Vaux-le-Vicomte
Eight centuries of French kings in one château, a forest of sandstone boulders around it, and Vaux-le-Vicomte twenty minutes north.
Dinard & the Emerald Coast
Belle Époque villas above a beach of striped bathing tents, Saint-Malo's ramparts across the water and the pink cliffs of Cap Fréhel an hour west.
Arcachon & the Dune du Pilat
Europe's tallest sand dune an hour from Bordeaux, a district of villas hidden in the pines, and oyster villages around a tidal bay.
Montpellier
A young southern city of pale stone squares and hidden courtyards, with Mediterranean beaches and dunes twenty minutes away.
Toulouse
The pink city — brick that turns red in the last hour of light, a Renaissance bridge over the Garonne and the largest Romanesque church still standing.
Rouen
The cathedral Monet painted more than thirty times, two thousand half-timbered houses and a street that runs under a gilded Renaissance clock.
Megève & the Mont-Blanc villages
A medieval farming village turned Alpine resort in the 1920s — cobbled square, horse-drawn sleighs and the whole Mont Blanc massif across the valley.
Bayeux & the D-Day Beaches
A cathedral town the fighting never touched, with mill races running under its lanes and the invasion beaches twenty minutes north.
Dijon & the Burgundy climats
A ducal palace across a stone half-moon of a square, an owl trail through half-timbered lanes, and the first grand cru vineyard eight kilometres out.
Épernay & the Avenue de Champagne
A straight kilometre of nineteenth-century champagne houses behind iron gates, with a hundred kilometres of chalk cellars running under the road.
Vézelay & the Morvan
A Romanesque basilica on a hill with one street climbing to it, a terrace over the Cure valley, and the wooded lakes of the Morvan behind.
Courchevel & the Three Valleys
Four villages stacked up one Savoyard valley, a cable car to a 2,700-metre ridge, and the largest linked ski area in the world on the other side.
Carnac, Quiberon & the Gulf of Morbihan
Three thousand standing stones in rows across the heath, a cliff coast on one side of a sand isthmus and a sheltered inland sea on the other.
Quimper & the Pointe du Raz
The far western headland of mainland Brittany, a bay called the Bay of the Dead beside it, and a river city of spires and footbridges an hour inland.
The Pink Granite Coast
Ten kilometres of northern Breton shore where the granite is genuinely pink, piled into boulders the size of houses and worn into shapes with names.
Nîmes & the Pont du Gard
The best-preserved Roman amphitheatre in the world, a complete Roman temple, and a three-tier aqueduct standing in a river half an hour away.
Collioure & the Vermilion Coast
A Catalan fishing town where the church bell tower stands in the sea, under vineyard terraces that climb straight off the beach into the Pyrenees.
Lille
A Flemish baroque square in red brick and gold sandstone, an arcaded courtyard of book stalls behind it, and a Vauban star fort in a park ten minutes out.
Rocamadour
A pilgrimage village stacked in three layers up a 120-metre limestone cliff — houses, then sanctuaries, then a castle on the rim.
Albi & Cordes-sur-Ciel
The largest brick cathedral in the world, painted inside from floor to vault, standing over a bishop's palace and a river of the same red clay.
The Verdon Gorge & Moustiers
Europe's deepest limestone canyon, a lake the colour of a swimming pool at the end of it, and a pottery village hung under a cliff with a star on a chain overhead.
Hyères & Porquerolles
White sand and umbrella pines over Caribbean-coloured water, a medieval old town on the mainland, and salt pans with flamingos in between.
The French Basque Country
Facades hung with drying red peppers, one painted street at Ainhoa, a royal wedding church on a sheltered bay, and a wooden cog train to a mountain on the Spanish border.
Yvoire & the French shore of Lake Geneva
A medieval village of grey stone and geraniums on a point in Lake Geneva, a private château standing out of the water, and the lake's only natural sand beach ten minutes away.
Bonifacio
A Genoese old town on an overhanging chalk cliff, a stairway cut down the rock face, a stack called the Grain of Sand, and a marina in an inlet that reads like a fjord.
Disneyland Paris
The castle at the end of Main Street, a lake with the Village along it and hotel gardens at the gates — a resort session that works on guest terms, never as a professional booking inside the parks.
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