Roughly halfway between Paris and Disneyland. Noisy-le-Grand isn’t a tourist destination in its own right. But if you’re staying here you’ll have a lot of other interesting things to hunt …
For most of its history La Seyne-sur-Mer was an industrial enclave supporting the Port of Toulon. La Seyne was a shipbuilding town, and its yards were still launching boats in …
A distant northwestern suburb of Paris, Pontoise is in the Cergy-Pontoise conurbation. This “new town” was built in the 1980s and became a reference for urban design and cutting-edge architecture. …
A former textile town in the southwest, Castres has been a hive of trade and industry going back 2,000 years. You can glimpse this business on the banks of the …
Poissy is a town west of Paris, only 20 minutes by train from the capital but with many worthwhile sights of its own. Way back it was a royal city, …
Southwest of Paris, Rambouillet will always be synonymous with its resplendent château. Up to 2009 the estate was a home for Kings, Emperors and French presidents. The château nestles in …
In northern Gironde, where the Isle River merges with the Dordogne, Libourne is a venerable bastide town with mythical wine labels in its backyard. In medieval times the wine from …
To the west of Paris, Nanterre is a residential suburb that overlaps with some of the ultra-modern business district La Défense. Paris-Nanterre University is a local claim to fame as …
You’ll already know the name of this southern Parisian by the airport. And while that isn’t a poetic way to sum up Orly, it’s not really known as a holiday …
This town in the Pays de Loire was caught up in the French Revolution worse than any other in the country. There was a cataclysmic battle here in 1793, when …