Category: Museums and Châteaux

France is home to more than 1000 museums including the Louvre, the world’s biggest and most visited museum. But there are also a lot of ...

Despite its name, the Petit Palais Museum in the heart of Paris is a rather large building! Sitting just off the Champs-Elysées, opposite the Grand ...

What to see at the Chateau de Malmaison – a home fit for an Empress… 17kms west of Paris the pretty Château de Malmaison was ...

There are a mind-boggling 40,000 castles in France. Visit one a day and it would take you a staggering 110 years to see them all. ...

Versailles is one of the wonders of the world, a gilded palace, a monument that has witnessed some of the most historic times of France, ...

Once upon a time, a beautiful castle in the far south of France was unloved and forgotten. Until someone came along and woke the sleeping ...

“Fashions fade, style is eternal” Yves Saint Laurent At the internationally renowned Museum of Lace and Fashion in Calais, northern France, a major exhibition dedicated ...

If ever there was a real sleeping beauty castle, then the Chateau d’Ussé is it. A stone’s throw from the river Indre, sitting atop a ...

In a former German submarine base in Bordeaux, a most spectacular sensory digital art venue now resides: the Bassins des Lumières. The base was built ...

Home to numerous impressionist and post-impressionist painters over the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the Orangerie museum is in the Jardin ...