Belcastel – Beautiful villages in France
Belcastel, a medieval village nestled in a steep valley on a hairpin curve of the Aveyron River and ranked among France’s most beautiful villages
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Ménerbes in the Regional Park Lubéron
Ménerbes, a quintessential tourist village in the Regional Natural Park of the Lubéron in Provence and ranked among The Most Beautiful Villages of France
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Château de Billy in Bourbonnais
Château de Billy in the department of Allier in Auvergne, a fortress once belonging to the Duchy of Bourbon and superb illustration of military architecture
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Richelieu – Utopian city – Indre-et-Loire
Richelieu off the Loire Valley, the ideal city of Cardinal de Richelieu, a citadel built in the 1630s on a grid plan and surrounded by ornamental moats
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Château de Comper – Fairy Vivian’s Castle
The Château de Comper near the Lac de Diane, the Castle of Crystal built by Merlin the Wizard for the Fairy Vivian in the magical Forest of Brocéliande
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Château du Rivau – The fairytale gardens
The fairytale Château du Rivau, one of the first castles built in the Loire Valley was restored to its past glory and boasts fourteen fun thematic gardens
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Château de Cabrerets – Célé Valley – Lot
The Château de Cabrerets in the Célé Valley, officially known as Chateau Gontaud-Biron de Cabrerets, and still owned by a descendant of Raymond de Gontaud
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Marcilhac sur Célé – St. Pierre Abbey – Lot
Saint-Pierre Church is all that is left of the once influential abbey which was located in the village of Marcilhac sur Célé in the Célé Valley
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Villeneuve d’Aveyron Bastide
Visiting Villeneuve d’Aveyron and its surroundings, a bastide or fortified town built by Raymont VII, Count of Toulouse in the early 13th century
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Château de Vincennes Donjon – near Paris
The Donjon of the Château de Vincennes is the only remaining medieval royal residence left in France and the tallest remaining keep in Europe
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Combourg – Châteaubriand’s Chateau
Combourg, an austere fortress in Northern Brittany and the chateau of the writer René de Chateaubriand, the founder of the French Romantic literary movement
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Beynac Castle in historic Périgord
Beynac Castle, a major medieval stronghold and one of the four Baronies of the historic Périgord boasts magnificent panoramic views over the Dordogne Valley
