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Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
Paris’ Fashion Museum, housed in 19th-century Palais Galliera, warehouses some 100,000 outfits and accessories – from canes and umbrellas to fans and gloves – from the 18th century to the present day. The sumptuous Italianate palace and gardens dating from the mid-19th century are
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Halles du Boulingrin
The vaulted Halles du Boulingrin were a symbol of Reims’ emergence from the destruction of WWI when they began service as the city’s main food market in 1929. Following a major restoration project, the Halles were reopened in all their Art Deco glory in September 2012. Besides shel
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Mines de Bruoux
In Gargas, 7km east of Roussillon, this former mine has more than 40km of underground galleries where ochre was once extracted. Around 650m are open to the public, some of which is as much as 15m high. Visits are only by guided tour; you need to reserve ahead. The caverns sometimes
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Musée A Bandera
Tucked away on a side street, this quirky little museum explores Corsican history up to WWII. Among the highlights are a diorama of the 1769 battle of Ponte Novo that confirmed French conquest of the island, a model of the port of Ajaccio as it was in the same period, and a proclam
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Musée Maillol
This splendid little museum focuses on the work of sculptor Aristide Maillol (1861–1944) and also includes works by Matisse, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Cézanne and Picasso. All are from the private collection of Odessa-born Dina Vierny (b 1915), Maillol’s principal model for 10 years from
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Château de Vincennes
Originally a meagre 12th-century hunting lodge, this castle was expanded several times throughout the centuries until it reached its present size under Louis XIV. Notable features include the beautiful 52m-high keep (1370) and the royal chapel (1552), both of which are open to visi
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Château de Montsoreau
Château de Montsoreau, beautifully situated on the edge of the Loire, was built in 1455 by one of Charles VII’s advisers, and later became famous thanks to an Alexandre Dumas novel, La Dame de Monsoreau . Exhibits explore the castle’s history, the novel and the river trade that onc
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Musée dArt et dArchéologie
For an enlightening historical perspective on Cluny and its abbey, start your visit at this archaeological museum inside the Palais Jean de Bourbon. Displays include a model of the Cluny complex, a 10-minute computer-generated 3D virtual tour of the abbey as it looked in the Middle
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Place de la Loge
Just south of Le Castillet, the place de la Loge has three fine stone structures. Fourteenth-century Le Loge de Mer , rebuilt during the Renaissance, was once Perpignan’s stock exchange, then maritime tribunal. Between it and the Palais de la Députation , formerly seat of the local
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Centre dEnseignement de la Dentelle au Fuseau
Given Le Puys role as a pilgrimage hub, lace was essential for religious clothing and there were once more than 5000 lace workshops hereabouts, though only a handful remain today. At this not-for-profit workshop you can watch bobbin lace-making demonstrations, browse temporary and
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Flame of Liberty Memorial
This bronze sculpture, a replica of the one topping the Statue of Liberty, was placed here in 1987 as a symbol of friendship between France and the USA. More famous is its location, above the place d’Alma tunnel where, on 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a ca
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Grande Arche de la Défense
La Défense’s landmark edifice is the white marble Grande Arche, a cubelike arch built in the 1980s to home government and business offices. The arch marks the western end of the Axe Historique (Historic Axis), though Danish architect Johan-Otto von Sprekelsen deliberately placed th
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Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation
The Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation, erected in 1962, remembers the 160,000 residents of France (including 76,000 Jews, of whom 11,000 were children) deported to and murdered in Nazi concentration camps during WWII. A single barred ‘window’ separates the bleak, rough-con
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Réserve de Bisons d’Europe
Near the small village of Ste-Eulalie-en-Margeride, 45km north of Mende, this nature reserve contains over 40 free-roaming bison. Visits to the reserve are either by horse-drawn carriage (per adult/child €13.50/7) or, in winter, by sledge (€16/8.50).From mid-June to September, you
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Opéra de Lyon
Lyons neoclassical 1831-built opera house was modernised in 1993 by renowned French architect Jean Nouvel, who added the striking semi-cylindrical glass-domed roof. On its northern side, boarders and bladers buzz around the fountains of place Louis Pradel , surveyed by the Homme de
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Stade Toulousain
Toulouse is a city that lives or dies by the fortunes of its rugby team, Stade Toulousain, who have won the European Cup a record four times, most recently in 2010. Their home stadium is the Stade Ernest-Wallon, which has a souvenir boutique and a rather good brasserie (mains €10-1
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Musée de la Vie Bourguignonne
Housed in a 17th-century Cistercian convent, this museum explores village and town life in Burgundy in centuries past with evocative tableaux illustrating dress, customs and traditional crafts. On the first floor, a whole street has been re-created, complete with 19th-century pharm
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Funiculaire du Capucin
Built in 1898, Frances oldest funicular railway (and listed historic monument) sets off every 20 minutes, crawling at 1m per second up to the plateau of Les Capucins, 1270m above town. Various trails lead off the plateau, including the 2km trail to Pic du Capucin (1450m), the GR30,
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Trophée des Alpes
This triumphal monument was built by Emperor Augustus in 6 BC to celebrate his victory over the Celto-Ligurian Alpine tribes that had fought Roman sovereignty (the names of the 45 peoples are carved on the western side of the monument). The tower teeters on the highest point of the
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Promenade du Paillon
It’s hard to imagine that this beautifully landscaped park was once a bus station, a multi-storey car park and an ill-loved square. Completed in October 2013, the park, also known as Coulée Verte, unfolds from the Théâtre National to Place Masséna with a succession of green spaces,
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