Versailles is a city on western edge of the French capital city Paris, now part of the sprawling metropolis within the Ile de France region. Versailles is best known for being the site of the vast royal palace and gardens built by King Louis XIV within what was previously a royal hunting lodge. It is [Continue]

Verdun is in Beirut. And is one of Beirut’s most prestigious residential neighborhoods where also some of the most important fashion boutiques are found. All aspects of luxury are readily accessible to the visitor in Verdun where cinemas, coffee shops, shopping, and restaurants are the main attraction. The neighborhood does not offer much in [Continue]

Mont Saint Michel (often written Mont St Michel, with other variations) is a small UNESCO World Heritage site located on an island just off the coast of the northern French region of Normandy. The island is best known as the site of the spectacular and well-preserved Norman Benedictine Abbey of St Michel at the peak [Continue]

The Loire Valley is often referred to as “the Garden of France” and the Cradle of the French Language. (The city of Tours is reputed to speak the purest French.) Listed (at least in part) amongst the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in late 2000, the Loire Valley is also noteworthy for the quality of its [Continue]

Located on the French coast of the Mediterranean Sea, the French Riviera (Côte d’Azur) has the glitz and glamour rivaled by few places on earth. Although the Riviera is famous for the glamour of St. Tropez, Monaco or the Cannes Film Festival, there are many other less well known attractions, such as the perched villages [Continue]

The French Alps are part of the large European chain of mountains know as the Alps. They are primarily known for their outdoor activities, which include skiing and mountaineering. Lesser know but still popular sports. In the region include white water rafting, golf and paragliding. The region is also noted for its stunning beauty, including [Continue]

In the city of Poitiers, there’s a theme park called Futuroscope. The whole idea is give you a range fascinating movie-experiences in many different movie-theaters. The theme park is marked by its really special architecture. It has all kinds of special buildings, completely different from each other. In the buildings are very large screens [Continue]

Disneyland Paris (formerly Euro Disneyland and Disneyland Resort Paris), located in the Paris suburb of Marne-la-Vallée, is the Disney Empire’s European variant of their archetypal “Magic Kingdom” theme park. It was the second Disney theme park resort to open outside the United States, after Tokyo Disney Resort. Disneyland [Continue]

Corsica (French: Corse) is an island and region of France in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of France and west of Italy. An animated island, past and present, Corsica “always conquered, never subdued” has been successively Pisan and Genovese and has been French since 1768. It enjoys a special constitutional status. Mountain in the [Continue]

Toulouse is a city in southwestern France, near the Pyrenees, in the Midi-Pyrenees region, half way between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Toulouse has become a center of aviation and spaceflight in the past 20 years. More than 35,000 of the city’s 400,000 citizen’s work in the civil aviation or space industries; Airbus / EADS [Continue]