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Musée Jean Cocteau Collection Séverin Wunderman
Art collector Séverin Wunderman donated some 1500 Cocteau works to Menton in 2005 on the condition that the town build a dedicated Cocteau museum. And what a museum Menton built: this futuristic, low-rise building is a wonderful space to make sense of Cocteau’s eclectic work. Its c
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Chapelle St
Le Puys oldest chapel (first established in the 10th century, and rebuilt several times since) teeters atop an 85m-high volcanic plug reached by climbing 268 stairs. Stepping through its exquisite polychrome doorway into the cavelike interior is a mystical experience – the chapel f
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Centre de la Vieille Charité
In the heart of the Le Panier quarter is the Centre de la Vieille Charité, built as a charity shelter for the town’s poor by local architect and sculptor Pierre Puget (1620–94). The beautiful complex, with stunning arched sienna-stone courtyard, houses rotating exhibitions and two
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Galerie David d’Angers
Angers’ most famous son is sculptor Pierre-Jean David (1788–1856), often just known as David d’Angers. Renowned for lifelike sculptures, his work adorns public monuments all over France, notably at the Panthéon, the Louvre and Père Lachaise cemetery. His work forms the cornerstone
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Musée de la Coutellerie
Split over two buildings along rue de la Coutellerie. No 23 explores the historical side of cutlery-making, while No 58 houses the museums unparalleled collection of knives past and present. About 4km upstream from Thiers is the Vallée des Rouets, an open-air museum dedicated to th
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Abbaye et Jardins de l’Abbaye
The resplendent vaulted halls of this 10th-century abbey, within Fort St-André, can only be visited by guided tour. The stunning terrace gardens, however – built atop the abbey vaults and classed among Frances top 100 gardens – can be freely roamed. Pathways meander among fragrant
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Digue à la Mer
This 2.5m-high dike was built in the 19th century to cut the delta off from the sea. A 20km-long walking and cycling track runs along its length linking Stes-Maries with the solar-powered Phare de la Gacholle (1882), a lighthouse automated in the 1960s. Footpaths cut down to lovely
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Parc du Château
This park, on a rocky outcrop above the old town, rewards with a cinematic panorama of Nice, the Baie des Anges and the port. Only the 16th-century Tour Bellanda remains of the 12th-century castle, razed by Louis XIV in 1706. The Cascade Donjon , an 18th-century artificial waterfal
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Musée du Compagnonnage
France has long prided itself on its compagnonnages, guild organisations of skilled craftspeople who have been responsible for everything from medieval cathedrals to the Statue of Liberty. Dozens of professions – from pastry chefs to locksmiths – are celebrated here through impress
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Chapelle de Ste
A 1975 mosaic by Marc Chagall illuminates this 13th-century Romanesque chapel, 4.5km east of Les Arcs-sur-Argens on the road to La Motte. The church contains the corpse of St Roseline (1263–1329), who was born at the château in Les Arcs and became a Carthusian nun and the mother s
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Église St
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Musée Gallo
Part of the park that contains the Tour de Vésone, this sleek museum designed by French architect Jean Nouvel encompasses a 1st-century Roman villa uncovered in 1959. Light floods in through the glass-and-steel structure, and walkways circumnavigate the excavated villa; it’s still
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Église des Stes
This 12th- to 15th-century church, with its dark, hushed, candle-wax-scented atmosphere, draws legions of pilgrim Roma to venerate the statue of Sara, their revered patron saint, during the Pèlerinage des Gitans. The relics of Sara and those of Marie-Salomé and Marie-Jacobé, all fo
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Grotte des Combarelles
This narrow cave 1.5km east of Font de Gaume was the first rediscovered in the valley, in 1901, and is renowned for its animal engravings, many of which cleverly use the natural contours of the rock to sculpt the animals forms. Look out for mammoths, horses and reindeer, as well as
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Musée des Beaux
No trip to Besançon is complete without visiting this stately museum. It is France’s oldest, founded in 1694 when the Louvre was but a twinkle in Paris’ eye. The stellar collection spans archaeology with its Egyptian mummies, Neolithic tools and Gallo-Roman mosaics; a cavernous dra
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Prieuré de Ganagobie
Ten kilometres south of Les Mées, stroll quiet hilltop woods and soak in the ethereal calm surrounding this still-working 10th-century Benedictine monastery. Its isolated, 3km up a winding one-lane road. The chapel is the monasterys only enclosed section open to visitors. Its 12th-
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Jardins de Marqueyssac
Garden fans won’t want to miss these famous manicured gardens, stretching along a rocky bluff overlooking the Dordogne Valley. Signposted paths lead through painstakingly clipped box hedges and decorative topiary to the gardens’ breathtaking belvédère (viewpoint), with sightlines t
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Château de Vauvenargues
On the northern side of Montagne Ste-Victoire, the D10 passes Vauvenargues , home to 14th-century Château de Vauvenargues, where Picasso is buried. The red-brick castle, bought by the artist in 1958 and his home between 1959 and 1961, still belongs to the Picassos. It opened its do
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Bastion St
Stroll along the rampart walkway, Promenade des Arts , to the harbour, where luxury yachts jostle for the limelight with Nomade (2010), an 8m-tall sculpture of a man looking out to sea. The work of Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, the mirage-like piece is built from thousands of white
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Maison de l’Outil et de la Pensée Ouvrière
Worn to a sensuous lustre by generations of skilled hands, the 10,000 hand tools on display here – each designed to perform a single, specialised task with exquisite efficiency – bring to life a world of manual skills made obsolete by the Industrial Revolution. The collection is ho
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