Just out of curiosity is there any place you particuarly enjoy to visit? Little known gems or famous land marks, doesn't matter just an open topic for discussion.
Orange is a town and commune in the département of Vaucluse, in the south of France. It has a population of 27,989 people (1999), with a primarily agricultural economy. It is located about 21 km (13 mi) north of Avignon. It is the warmest city in France, if the average temperature is considered. Roman Orange was founded in 35 BC by veterans of the Second legion[citation needed] as Arausio (after the local Celtic water god), or Colonia Julia Firma Secundanorum Arausio in full, "the Julian colony of Arausio established by the soldiers of the second legion." The name was originally unrelated to that of the orange fruit (Sanskrit nāraṅgaḥ), but was later conflated with it. (see Orange (word)) A previous Celtic settlement with that name existed in the same place and a major battle, which is generally known as the Battle of Arausio, had been fought in 105 BC between two Roman armies and the Cimbri and Teutones tribes. Arausio covered an area of some 170 acres (690,000 m²) and was well endowed with civic monuments - as well as the theatre and arch, it had a monumental temple complex and a forum. It was the capital of a wide area of northern Provence, which was parcelled up into lots for the Roman colonists. this is a place where mr raymond domenech loves j/k
I'd like to visit Toulouse, a city of le bon vivre, and Lyon - sort of Paris, but in the province. And I'd like to live in Touraine.
for roman things the pont de gard (a roman aqueduct) outside of avignon is very impressive, but the outside of the theater in orange (top pic in matthieu's post) is overwhelming by its sheer mass. aix-en-provence is a very attractive town as is the whole province of provence. my favorite part of it is the northern bit, the drôme provençale, and the village of venterol is a gem. not to sound chauvin, but the city of lyon is not to be missed; there's a whole thread about it here: http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=329504 france is simply a beautiful, beautiful country; just put a pin into the map at random and go there and you'll find something that you could tell us about, even in areas like the north and center that have reputations of being devoid of charm.. the fellow who thinks he knows even half the nice places in france is a fool.
france is simply a beautiful, beautiful country; just put a pin into the map at random and go there and you'll find something that you could tell us about, even in areas like the north and center that have reputations of being devoid of charm.. the fellow who thinks he knows even half the nice places in france is a fool.[/QUOTE] i would have to agree there tons of places in france here is an other one Biarritz ! Bayonne plus Saint-Jean-de-Luz Anglet check them all out very very very nice
here is the town where i was born ....Amboise Today a small market town, it was once home of the French royal court. he city is famous for the Clos Lucé manor house where Leonardo da Vinci lived (and ultimately died) at the invitation of Francis I of France, whose Château d'Amboise, which dominates the town, is located just 500 meters away. The narrow streets contain some good examples of timbered housing.
Bonjour! Hello greetings I was oneday thinking of visiting France and I like alot of pictures that I see here very intresting, has anyone here been to Cannes and if so tell me what it's like?
-take a map of france. - using a ruler draw a line from menton to marseille. - everything below this line gives me hives that require emergency cortisone treatment. - but hey, that's just me!
Cannes has sand beaches as opposed to Nice that has rock beaches. If I was going to the beach, I would go to somewhere between le Grau du Roi by Nimes down to Colliure over by Perpignan. The cote d'azur is too overrun by tourists. As for my favorite places in France, le Lot, la Correze and the le Cantal are all nice places with good food.
yes, le grau du roi and la grande motte have such cheesy reputations that they have in fact become decent places to go, especially if you can make it slightly off-season (the french don't quite take their vacations all at once but there are only two species of holidaymakers, the juilletistes and the aoûtiens. don't count on the atlantic coast in summer either, those beaches tend to get packed as well, though they're marvelous off-season: one of my most delicious seaside memories is lacanau plage in the snow. claro, la france profonde is almost always "worth the detour" as the green guide puts it (escept for the beauce, which is france's answer to nebraska). the limousin for example. as for cantal, it's true it's hard to govern 500 types of cheese but a real farm produced salers is the ruthless dictator of my particular palate. btw i just spent a week in vaison-la romaine and found it a-do-raaable.
1.Noirmoutier 2.Belle-Île-en-Mer 3.Île de Ré 4.Île d'Oléron those are my favorite islands of the coast in those orders **** there soooo much tooo see in France it would take life times too see it all!
Le Vaucluse is a nice place also, if not for the fact that the name just kind of rolls off the lips and there are lots of "vielles pierres" in the way of romain ruins.
I have enjoyed many visits to Quiberon and Lille. Bretagne has many interesting and worthwhile places to visit. The beaches near Quiberon are gorgeous and you can harvest some amazing oysters at low tide on the sea side of the peninsula. Quimper and Concarneau are also very nice to visit. Lille is enormously under-rated. The most important art museum outside of Paris is in Lille in addition to fine shopping, food and other attractions. You can also take a short trip to Bruges while there. My friend in Lille took me to dinner in Cassel (TINY village on a hill closer to the Atlantic). It was an awesome experience. I can't post pictures now, but I will do so later....as others have said - it's hard to go wrong in France. Do yourself a favor and try to rent an apartment instead of staying at a hotel (You can usually rent for even just a few days in the larger cities). It's a much better experience, IMHO. You can go to the markets and cook some great food and have a much more "authentic" visit.
