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Les Jardins de Coursiana
These landscaped gardens in La Romieu are the handiwork of a local agricultural engineer. More than 700 trees and rare plants flourish in the four main gardens: an arboretum, English garden, herb garden and potager familial (vegetable patch). A joint ticket with the Collegiale St-P
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Le Camino
Interesting for armchair travellers as well as committed walkers about to undertake the multi-week journey to Santiago de Compostela, this new museum in the beautifully restored Hôtel St-Vidal traces every stage of the 1700km Chemin de St-Jacques pilgrimage route, in exhibits sprea
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Terrain des Peintres
The Terrain des Peintres is a wonderful terraced garden perfect for a picnic, from where Cézanne, among others, painted the Montagne Ste-Victoire. The view of the jagged mountain is inspirational. The gardens are opposite 62 av Paul Cézanne. Youll find it a 10-minute walk uphill fr
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Tour de lHorloge
The half-timbered houses overhanging place des Cordeliers and place des Merciers mark the heart of the old town. A few paces south, climb up to the little balcony of this 15th-century clock tower whose chimes ring every quarter hour.
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Port Lympia
Nice’s Port Lympia, with its beautiful Venetian-coloured buildings, is often overlooked, but a stroll along its quays is lovely, as is the walk to get here: come down through Parc du Château or follow quai Rauba Capeu, where a massive war memorial hewn from the rock commemorates th
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Jardin de l’Alchimiste
Eleven kilometres east of St-Rémy, in Eygalières, fascinating Jardin de l’Alchimiste – inspired by the nearby 16th-century house of an alchemist – is planted in arcane medieval patterns and filled with blossoming trees and herbs reputed to hold mystical properties. Its a magical de
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Château Comtal
The entrance fee lets you look around the castle itself, enjoy an 11-minute film and join an optional 30- to 40-minute guided tour of the ramparts (tours in English, July and August). Descriptive panels around the castle, in both French and English, are explicit. For more detail, i
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Cave de Ribeauvillé
France’s oldest winegrowers’ cooperative, founded in 1895, has a viniculture museum, informative brochures and free tastings of its excellent wines, made with all seven of the grape varieties grown in Alsace. On weekends it’s staffed by local winegrowers. It’s just across two round
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Abbaye de Fleury
St-Benoît-sur-Loire’s Romanesque Abbaye de Fleury is still home to a practising Benedictine brotherhood, who conduct afternoon tours from March through October. Look out for the basilica’s famous decorated portal and capitals and the relics of St Benedict (480–547) which the monks
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Tour Pey
The gargoyled, 50m-high Gothic belfry,Tour Pey-Berland was erected between 1440 and 1466. Its spire was added in the 19th century, and in 1863 it was topped off with the statue of Notre Dame de l’Aquitaine (Our Lady of Aquitaine). Scaling the tower’s 231 narrow steps rewards you wi
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Belvédère des Vautours
Bird fans might like to make a stop at the Belvédère des Vautours, just west of Le Truel on the D996, where a population of reintroduced vultures is now thriving on the sheer limestone cliffs. You can watch the birds gliding through the causse from the viewing point, which also has
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Beaches
The beaches in Monaco are definitely not the best on the coast but there are a couple of nice - and surprisingly, free - options: Esplanade Stefano Casiraghi is a concrete solarium that has been installed on the back of the ports sea-defence wall. If you prefer sand, Plage du Larvo
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Église du Dôme
Église du Dôme has a sparkling golden dome (1677–1735) and is one of the finest religious edifices erected under Louis XIV. It received the remains of Napoleon in 1840. The very extravagant Tombeau de Napoléon 1er , in the centre of the church, comprises six coffins fitting into on
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Palais de Tokyo
The Tokyo Palace, created for the 1937 Exposition Universelle, has no permanent collection. Rather its shell-like interior of concrete and steel is a stark backdrop to interactive contemporary art exhibitions and installations. Its bookshop is fabulous for art and design magazines,
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Musée Colette
Colette, author of La Maison de Claudine and Gigi , lived till the age of 18 in the tiny town of St-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, 40km southwest of Auxerre. The Musée Colette , in the village château, displays letters, manuscripts, two furnished rooms from her apartment in Paris’ Palais Roya
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Les Pêcheries
Set to open in 2015, Fécamp’s new flagship museum showcases local history, the town’s fishing industry, artists who were active here, and traditional Norman life. The dramatic, glassed-in observation platform on top offers great views of town. Situated in the middle of the harbour,
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Observatoire Ornithologique de Mérindol
This bird reserve on the Durance River is home to some 243 species, including herons and great cormorants. Hides are strategically positioned along the 3km trail (1½ hours), marked with yellow blazes. The site is near the Mérindol-Mallemort dam (signposted 1.5km from the roundabout
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Moulin des Bouillons
Heading 3.5km south from Gordes along rte de St-Pantaléon (D148), you hit this marvellous rural museum: an olive-oil mill with a 10m-long Gallo-Roman press weighing 7 tonnes – reputedly the worlds oldest. The adjoining stained-glass museum showcases beautiful translucent mosaics; a
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Gros Horloge
Spanning rue du Gros Horloge, the Great Clock’s Renaissance archway has a gilded, one-handed medieval clock face on each side. High above, a Gothic belfry, reached via spiral stairs, affords spectacular views. The excellent audioguide is a great introduction to Rouen’s colourful hi
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Crypte Archéologique
The Archaeological Crypt is under the square in front of Notre Dame. The 117m-long and 28m-wide area displays in situ the remains of structures built on this site during the Gallo-Roman period, a 4th-century enclosure wall, the foundations of the medieval foundlings hospice and a f
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