The Armistice Museum and Memorial is surprisingly little known to the general public - even in France. It's an important site: it was here that the armistice t...
In a forest in northern Burgundy, you’ll come across a unique project – the building of the medieval castle of Guédelon. This is not a restoration projec...
The revamped Battle of Agincourt Museum (officially the 1415 Azincourt Center) aims to tell the true story of the great 15th-century battle and it does a great...
The magnificent, rambling 1,500-room Château of Fontainebleau lies at the very heart of French history.
Like many grand buildings, Fontainebleau began as a ...
A Lace and Fashion Museum in Calais? Well, yes…all that and more is on display here at the Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode (International Cent...
Memorials and sites from World War II are found throughout north France, though the Normandy D-Day Landing Beaches along the Baie de Seine are the most famous,...
Voltaire lived with his lover, Emilie de Châtelet at her charming Château de Cirey in Champagne. The modest château sits comfortably in the lush countryside of...
Ors is a perfectly ordinary looking little village in Nord-Pas de Calais, near the small town of Le Cateau-Cambresis. Driving north out of the village into the...
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Centre (CWGC) opened a new centre in Beaurains just south of Arras in Pas-de-Calais in the summer of 2019. It’s a major ...
The Tarn is a gorgeous area in the Midi-Pyrénées region in the south of France. Its major city, Albi, is well known but the rest of this hilly, peaceful and ru...
