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Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
The permanent collection at Paris modern-art museum displays works representative of just about every major artistic movement of the 20th and (nascent) 21st centuries, with works by Modigliani, Matisse, Braque and Soutine. The real jewel though is the room hung with canvases by Duf
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Musée Atelier Zadkine
Russian cubist sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967) arrived in Paris in 1908 and lived and worked in this cottage for almost 40 years. Zadkine produced an enormous catalogue of sculptures made from clay, stone, bronze and wood. The museum covers his life and work; one room displays f
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Musée Archéologique
The small but fascinating Musée Archéologique features treasures unearthed in and around Fréjus, from everyday objects to rare finds such as a double-faced marble statue of Hermes, a head of Jupiter and a stunning 3rd-century mosaic depicting a leopard.
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Palais des Ducs et des États de Bourgogne
Once home to Burgundys powerful dukes, this monumental palace with a neoclassical façade overlooks place de la Libération, Old Dijons magnificent central square dating from 1686. The palaces eastern wing houses the outstanding Musée des Beaux-Arts , whose entrance is next to the To
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Grand Trianon
In the middle of the park, approximately 1.5km northwest of the main building, are Versailles two smaller palaces, each of which is surrounded by neatly tended flowerbeds. The pink-colonnaded Grand Trianon was built in 1687 for Louis XIV and his family as a place of escape from the
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Château
The cultures of the world mix and mingle inside the Château-Musée, one of the few places on earth where you can admire Egyptian antiquities (including a mummy) next to 19th-century Inuit masks and compare Andean ceramics with Grecian urns, with an in-situ 4th-century Roman wall thr
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Musée 39
The neatly organised Musée 39-45, at the northern edge of Ambleteuse, features realistic tableaux of WWII military and civilian life, and a 25-minute film. The dashing but wildly impractical French officers’ dress uniforms of 1931 hint at possible reasons why France fared so badly
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Fort St
King Philip the Fair (aka Philippe le Bel) wasn’t messing around when he built defensive 14th-century Fort St-André on the then-border between France and the Holy Roman Empire: the walls are 2m thick! Today you can walk a small section of the ramparts and admire 360-degree views fr
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Château de Turenne
The château, built to protect the feudal seat of the powerful viscounts of Turenne, has beautiful views of the surrounding countryside from the 12th century Tour de César , the arrow-straight tower. Apart from a few ramparts and a 14th-century guard room, the rest of the lordly lod
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Blériot Plage
The unique attraction at Calais cabin-lined beach, which begins 1km northwest of place dArmes, is watching huge car ferries as they sail majestically to and from Dover. The sand continues westward along the 8km long, dune-lined Blériot Plage, named after the pioneer aviator Louis B
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Académie du Spectacle Équestre
Versailles Grandes Écuries (Big Stables) are the stage for the prestigious Académie du Spectacle Équestre. It presents spectacular Reprises Musicales , for which tickets sell out weeks in advance; book ahead online. In the stables main courtyard is a new manège where horses and the
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Abbaye Ste
Two kilometres north of Le Barroux along thread-narrow lanes, this abbey hears Gregorian chants sung by Benedictine monks at 9.30am daily (10am Sunday and holidays). The Romanesque-style monastery, built in the 1980s, is surrounded by lavender. Its shop carries delicious monk-made
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Abbaye de Brantôme
Brantôme’s most illustrious landmark is the former Benedictine Abbey, built and rebuilt from the 11th to 18th centuries and now occupied by the town hall and an art museum . Look out for the abbey’s spectacular detached 11th-century Romanesque bell tower, built into the rock, and t
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Parc et Château de Bagatelle
Few Parisian parks are as romantic as this, created as the result of a wager between Marie-Antoinette and the Count of Artois. Irises bloom in May, roses between June and October, and - perhaps most magnificently of all - water lilies in August. The pièce de résistance is chateau i
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Hôtel de Ville
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Canal du Midi
The Canal du Midi is an enchanting waterway. Constructed under Louis XIV to link the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea, the canal is today inscribed on UNESCOs list of the worlds cultural patrimony. A 40km (25mi) bike path stretches from Toulouse to Port Lauragais on the south bank
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Voilière des Cigognes Altavilloises
Hautvillers is twinned with the Alsatian town of Eguisheim, which explains why three storks live in the Voilière des Cigognes Altavilloises, an easy 500m walk towards Épernay from place de la République. If you’re not expecting a baby, this may be your only chance to get a close-up
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Théâtre
A separate wing of the Musée du Parfum is located a short distance south in the Théâtre-Musée des Capucines. The activity in this early 20th-century theatre concentrates largely on the bottling (for example, in crystal flasks from Bohemia) and packaging side of perfume making. Ther
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Le Train Jaune
Nicknamed ‘The Canary’ for obvious reasons, this mountain railway trundles up from Villefranche-de-Conflent (427m) to Latour de Carol (1231m) through spectacular Pyrenean scenery. It’s one of France’s most famous train trips, and attracts nearly half a million passengers in summer,
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Jardin d’Acclimatation
Families adore this green and flowery amusement park on the northern fringe of wooded Bois de Boulogne. There are swings, roundabouts and playgrounds for all ages galore (included in the admission fee), as well as dozens of attractions such as puppet shows, boat rides, fun-fair rid
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