France Travel Guide Overview
France Travel Guide Overview
Iconic Landmarks | Charming Cities | Beautiful Seaside |
France is home to world-famous sights like the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, and historic châteaux that showcase its rich culture and heritage. | Whether Paris, Mont Saint-Michel, Bordeaux or Dieppe, France's cities and towns offer their own unique atmosphere and experiences. | France’s coastline, from the French Riviera to Normandy and Brittany, offers golden beaches, charming seaside towns, and stunning ocean views. |
France is one of the world's most visited destinations — and for very good reason. From the romantic streets of Paris to the sun-drenched coastlines of Provence, the dramatic cliffs of Normandy to the vineyard-draped hills of Bordeaux, France offers a staggering variety of landscapes, cultures, and experiences all within a single country.
Dieppe is a working port city on the Normandy coast of northern France, nestled between two chalk cliffs at the mouth of the River Arques, roughly 58km north-west of Rouen and 200km from Paris. It holds the distinction of being France's first seaside resort, and today it remains one of the most authentic and underrated destinations on the English Channel coast.
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Caen is the capital of the Calvados department in France and the largest city in Lower Normandy, located roughly 15km inland from the Channel coast on the banks of the River Orne. Built by William the Conqueror, the city has two of the finest Romanesque abbeys in northern France, a vast ducal castle on a hill at its centre, and a neighbourhood of cobbled streets that survived the bombardments of 1944.
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Saint-Malo is a walled port city on the northern coast of France, perched on a granite promontory at the mouth of the River Rance in Brittany, roughly 70km north of Rennes and 420km from Paris. The walled old city, known as Intra-Muros, is a maze of granite streets and 18th-century merchants' houses entirely enclosed by rampart walls, surrounded on three sides by sea.
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Mont Saint-Michel is one of the most extraordinary places in France, a rocky granite island rising 80 metres from a tidal bay on the border of Normandy and Brittany, topped by a Benedictine abbey that has been a place of Christian pilgrimage since 708 AD. The island receives around three million visitors a year, making it the most visited monument in France outside of Paris.
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Paris is the capital of France and one of the great cities of the world, a city that has shaped art, literature, fashion, cuisine, and political thought for centuries, and that continues to do so with a self-assurance that no other city quite matches. It sits on the River Seine in the Île-de-France region, located roughly 450km from London as the crow flies, and it contains within its 105 square kilometres more significant museums, monuments, parks, markets, restaurants, and arrondissements of dense, beautiful urban fabric than most countries can claim across their entire territory.
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Disneyland Paris is located just 20 miles from the French capital, making it the perfect addition to your city break. Made up of two world-class theme parks - Disneyland Park and Disneyland Adventure World - it’s one of Europe’s top tourist destinations, home to iconic attractions like the Sleeping Beauty Castle.
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Brittany is the great Celtic peninsula of northwestern France, jutting 200km into the Atlantic Ocean with nearly 3,000km of coastline along its deeply indented edges.
The region divides naturally into northern Brittany — the walled city of Saint-Malo, the medieval town of Dinan, the Pink Granite Coast, the wild Finistère peninsula — and southern Brittany, where the Gulf of Morbihan, the Carnac standing stones, the island of Belle-Île, and the fishing ports of Concarneau and Quimper define a landscape and culture of equal richness.
Normandy is the great region of northern France that faces the English Channel along 600km of coastline, stretching from the white chalk cliffs of the Alabaster Coast in the east to the tidal bay of Mont Saint-Michel in the west, and inland through apple orchards, bocage countryside, and the Seine valley to the outskirts of Paris.
France is one of the most pet-friendly countries in Europe. Whether you are heading for a weekend in Normandy or a long summer road trip through Brittany, taking the ferry to France is by far the easiest way to bring a pet on your travels.
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France is one of the great road trip destinations in Europe. Taking your own vehicle on the ferry to France is by far the most practical way to explore, whether you are making a short hop across the Channel in your car for a European road trip, loading the motorhome for a month-long tour of the south-west, or crossing on a motorbike for a touring holiday along the Route Napoleon.
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