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  Mont Saint Michel and its bay

  Summary On a rocky islet between Normandy and Brittany, surrounded by vast mudflats with one of the most spectacular tides of the world, rises “the […]

  Posted on 29/04/2013
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  Pont du Gard

   Summary Situated in south-east France, the Pont du Gard, built in the mid-1st century, is the major element of a 50-km-long aqueduct which supplied the […]

  Posted on 29/04/2013
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  Palace and park of Fontainebleau

  Summary Set at the heart of a large forest in the Île-de-France, Fontainebleau had been a royal hunting lodge since the 12th century. It was […]

  Posted on 24/04/2013
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  Basilica church and hill of Vézelay

  Summary Shortly after its foundation in the 9th century, the Benedictine monastery of Vézelay, set on a hill overlooking a vast landscape, acquired the relics […]

  Posted on 23/04/2013
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  Palace and park of Versailles

  Summary The palace of Versailles was the principal residence and seat of power of French monarchs from Louis XIV to Louis XVI. Built and embellished […]

  Posted on 08/04/2013
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  Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay

   Summary The Abbey of Fontenay was founded in 1119 by St Bernard in a small marshy valley a few kilometres from Montbard in Burgundy. The […]

  Posted on 25/03/2013
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