A for­ti­fi­ca­tion on the island of If in the Frioul arch­i­pel­ago in the Mediter­ranean Sea. Ini­tial­ly…

The Vezere val­ley con­tains 147 pre­his­toric sites dat­ing from the Palae­olith­ic and 25 dec­o­rat­ed ca…

This 360-km net­work of nav­i­ga­ble water­ways link­ing the Mediter­ranean and the Atlantic through 328…

The ini­tial prop­er­ty, inscribed in 1988 on the World Her­itage List, was formed by the Grande-Ile,…

The out­stand­ing han­dling of new archi­tec­tur­al tech­niques in the 13th cen­tu­ry, and the har­mo­nious …

The Pitons, cirques and rem­parts of Reunion Island site coin­cides with the core zone of La Reunio…

Twen­ty-three bel­fries in the north of France and the bel­fry of Gem­bloux in Bel­gium were inscribed…

The Palace of Ver­sailles was the prin­ci­pal res­i­dence of the French kings from the time of Louis X…

Explore the for­mer palace of the kings of France – now the largest muse­um in the world cov­er­ing a…

The iron struc­ture is an icon­ic sym­bol of Paris, and it makes for an exquis­ite view when it light…

Perched on a rocky islet in the midst of vast sand­banks exposed to pow­er­ful tides between Nor­mand…

Part­ly built start­ing in 1145, and then recon­struct­ed over a 26-year peri­od after the fire of 119…

Short­ly after its foun­da­tion in the 9th cen­tu­ry, the Bene­dic­tine abbey of Veze­lay acquired the re…

Used by the kings of France from the 12th cen­tu­ry, the medieval roy­al hunt­ing lodge of Fontainebl…

Amiens Cathe­dral, in the heart of Picardy, is one of the largest ‘clas­sic‘ Goth­ic church­es of the…

Sit­u­at­ed in the Rhone val­ley, the ancient the­atre of Orange, with its 103-m-long facade, is one o…

Arles is a good exam­ple of the adap­ta­tion of an ancient city to medieval Euro­pean civ­i­liza­tion. I…

This stark Bur­gun­di­an monastery was found­ed by St Bernard in 1119. With its church, clois­ter, ref…

In the 14th cen­tu­ry, this city in the South of France was the seat of the papa­cy. The Palais des …

Nan­cy, the tem­po­rary res­i­dence of a king with­out a king­dom — Stanis­las Leszczyn­s­ki, lat­er to beco…

The nature reserve, which is part of the Region­al Nat­ur­al Park of Cor­si­ca, occu­pies the Scan­dola …

The Pont du Gard was built short­ly before the Chris­t­ian era to allow the aque­duct of Nimes (which…