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| | Toulouse is affectionately referred to as "La Ville Rose," or "the Pink City," as all of the architecture in the heart of the city is made from a rosy red brick. Even on rainy days, therefore, the city feels colorful. Though it's the fourth largest city in France (after Paris, Marseille, and Lyon), Toulouse still doesn't feel that big, with a walkable city center and just a single metro line.... |
| Beyond all else, Bordeaux is famous for its wines. In the heart of deep red vineyards and chateaux lies an artful, imposing, Old World city of graying stone, that was begun in the first place due to the grape-friendly soil and still acts as a hub for vineyard tours in the region. Bordeaux populates itself in the summers with bottle-toting connoisseurs attending the many wine festivals; it's also... |  |
| Saint-Cirq Lapopie is as darling as its name. A teeny-tiny, adorably charming, stone-and-flower-strewn village northeast of Toulouse, Saint-Cirq feels like the most authentic and untouched piece of French history you could possibly stumble across. And while its locals are more than welcoming, the view is spectacular, the little chapels and red-tile roofs are beautiful, the winding stone footpaths... |  |
| Biarritz is a ritzy, upscale beach town on France's western coast, just on the cusp between Spain and France in the Pays Basque. It became famous in the mid nineteenth century when the wife of Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie, fell in love with the region and decided to build a palace on the beach (Hotel du Palais - today, you can stay there and bask in luxury fit for an Empress). A prime... |  |
| Le Mans (pronounced [ləmɑ̃] in French) is a city in France, located on the Sarthe River. Traditionally the capital of the province of Maine, it is now the préfecture (capital) of the Sarthe département, and is furthermore the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Le Mans. Its inhabitants are called Manceaux and Mancelles. |  |
| Nice is a popular tourist destination on the sparkling French Riviera (also known as the Cote d'Azur). It's still so popular that you're likely to hear as much English spoken as French, and in summertime, the palm-lined pebble beaches and promenades are thronged with sunbathers and holiday shoppers. Still, Nice doesn't have quite the overbearing glitz of other Cote d'Azur destinations, such as... |  |
| Ah, Paris: “the City of Light” and red-wine romance, progressively modern yet heavy with age, and as chock-full of metropolitan and multicultural hubbub as it is all things expressly French. Though one might say that Paris is Paris and not nearly so French as France is (judging from its massive non-French population and resulting urban melting pot) it still maintains both in legend and reality a... |  |
| Glitzy Cannes stretches out on the Riviera like an heiress on a chez lounge. Cannes is probably most famous for the annual Hollywood escape and escapade that is the Cannes International Film Festival. This city located in the south of France on the French Riviera is both a cultural and entertainment hot-spot and an independent commune (a low level administrative block of the larger French... |  |
| Hyères (Provençal Occitan: Ieras in classical norm or Iero in Mistralian norm) is a town and commune in the southeast of France, in the Var département, located 15 km (10 m) east of Toulon. According to the town's official website, at the 1999 census it had a population of 53,258 inhabitants. The old town lies 4 km from the sea clustered around the Castle of Saint Bernard, which is set on a hill.... |
| Île de Ré (formerly also Île de Rhé; in English Isle of Rhé) is an island off the west coast of France near La Rochelle, on the northern side of the Pertuis d'Antioche strait. The island is 30 km long, 5 km wide, and a 2.9 km bridge, completed in 1988, connects it to La Rochelle on the mainland. |
| La Baule-Escoublac, commonly referred to as La Baule, is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique département of France. It boasts the longest sand beach of Europe, which is 12 kilometers in length. |
| La Bourboule is located at 45°35′21″N, 02°44′24″E. It ranges in altitude from 812 to 1408m and covers an area of 12.74 km². As of 1999, La Bourboule has a population of 2,043. |
| La Rochelle is a city and in western France, and a seaport on the Bay of Biscay, a part of the Atlantic Ocean. It is the capital of the Charente-Maritime département. The city is connected to the Île de Ré by a 2.9 km bridge, completed in 1988. Its harbour opens into a protected strait, the Pertuis d'Antioche. |
| La Roche-sur-Yon is a town and commune in western France, préfecture (capital) of the Vendée département. Its inhabitants are called Yonnais. |
| Laval is a commune in the Mayenne département of France. It lies on the threshold of Brittany and on the border between Normandy and Anjou. Its citizens are called Lavallois. |
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