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Collégiale St
This church contains the tomb of Agnés Sorel , Charles VII’s mistress, who lived in the château during their affair. Notoriously beautiful and fiercely intelligent, Agnés earned many courtly enemies due to her powerful influence over Charles. Having borne three daughters, she died
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Old Town
The exceptional historic centre is contained within canals dotted by creaking waterwheels – the one by the tiny park at ave des Quatre Otages is particularly photogenic. The former Jewish quarter exists in name only: the ghettos synagogue was destroyed in 1856. The ancient fisherme
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Mine Témoin
To get an insight into the town’s long coal-mining heritage, don a safety helmet and take the cage down into the murky tunnels of this disused mine, once used to train apprentice colliers. The one-hour guided tour explores 700m of galleries. The tour and introductory video are in F
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Musée de l’Orangerie
Located in the southwestern corner of the Jardin des Tuileries, this museum, with the Jeu de Paume, is all that remains of the former Palais des Tuileries, which was razed during the Paris Commune in 1871. It exhibits important Impressionist works, including a series of Monets Deco
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Musée dHistoire de St
Within Château de St-Malo , built by the dukes of Brittany in the 15th and 16th centuries, this museum looks at the life and history of the city through nautical exhibits, model boats and marine artefacts, as well as an exhibition covering the citys cod-fishing heritage. Theres als
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Musée Picasso
Picasso himself said: ‘If you want to see the Picassos from Antibes, you have to see them in Antibes. The 14th-century Château Grimaldi was Picasso’s studio from July to December 1946 and now houses an excellent collection of his works and fascinating photos of him. The sheer varie
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Palais des Beaux Arts
Lilles world-renowned Fine Arts Museum displays a truly first-rate collection of 15th- to 20th-century paintings, including works by Rubens, Van Dyck and Manet. Exquisite porcelain and faience (pottery), much of it of local provenance, is on the ground floor, while in the basement
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Musée des Égouts de Paris
Raw sewage flows beneath your feet as you walk through 480m of odoriferous tunnels in this working sewer museum. Exhibitions cover the development of Paris’ waste water–disposal system, including its resident rats (theres an estimated one sewer rat for every Parisian above ground).
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Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration
This heavyweight museum documents the hot-potato topic of immigration through a series of informative historical displays that cover groups as diverse as the Vietnamese, Portuguese, Jews and Russians. The multimedia permanent collection called Repères (Landmarks) and the gallery of
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Cassinomagus
The Gallo-Roman baths of Cassinomagus were rediscovered in 1844 and excavated from 1958 to 1988. This luxurious former way-station was an important crossroads on the via Agrippa, the road that crossed France. Much of the complex (including a temple and amphitheatre) were plundered
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Calanque de Morgiou
Windswept Cap Morgiou separates Sormiou from Morgiou, with a pretty little port bobbing with fishing boats, and sheer rock faces from which climbers dangle. An evening spent at its one (seasonal) restaurant, Nautic Bar , is dreamy. No credit cards.Morgiou beach is a one-hour walk f
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Barrage Vauban
A triumph of 17th-century engineering, the Barrage Vauban bears the architectural imprint of the leading French military engineer of the age – Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. The dam was recently restored to its former glory and now harbours contemporary art exhibits, such as Frenc
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Rocher Corneille & Notre Dame de France
Gleaming brightly after a 2013 renovation, the gargantuan rust-red statue of Notre Dame de France (aka the Virgin Mary) watches over Le Puy from her dominant perch atop Rocher Corneille (757m), the towns tallest volcanic pillar. For dizzying vistas of the towns rooftops and the sur
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Musée de la Faïence
When silver was reclaimed by Louis XIV and melted for war, Moustiers’ decorative faïence (glazed earthenware) graced the dinner tables of Europe’s palaces. Today, each Moustiers 15 ateliers has its own style – from representational to abstract. Antique masterpieces are housed in th
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Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain
This striking glass-and-steel cube showcases an outstanding fine art, graphic art and photography collection. Besides modern and contemporary works of the Kandinsky, Picasso, Magritte, Monet and Rodin ilk, youll encounter oeuvre by Strasbourg-born artists, including the curvaceous
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Petite France
Criss-crossed by narrow lanes, canals and locks, Petite France is where artisans plied their trades in the Middle Ages. The half-timbered houses, sprouting veritable thickets of scarlet geraniums in summer, and the riverside parks attract the masses, but the area still manages to r
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Grottes de Sare
Who knows what the first inhabitants of the Grottes de Sare, some 20,000 years ago, would make of todays whiz-bang technology including lasers and holograms during sound-and-light shows at these caves. Multilingual 45-minute tours take you through a gaping entrance via narrow passa
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Écomusée de la Vallée d’Aspe
Four sites around the valley, collectively known as the Écomusée de la Vallée d’Aspe, explore the area’s heritage and agricultural traditions.There are small folk museums in the villages of Sarrance, Lourdios-Ichère and Borcé, but the most interesting site is Les Fermiers Basco-Béa
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Art Ludique
Comics, mangas, video games and animated and live-action cinema are treated as seriously as any other art form at this contemporary art museum in the cutting-edge Docks en Seine complex. Chronologically arranged exhibits showing the evolution of the genre form the core of the perma
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Village des Bories
Beehive-shaped bories (stone huts) bespeckle Provence and at the Village des Bories, 4km southwest of Gordes, an entire village of them can be explored. Constructed of slivered limestone, bories were built during the Bronze Age, inhabited by shepherds until 1839, then abandoned unt
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