Lyon (Fr. Lyon) is the third-largest city and second-largest urban area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, northeast of Saint-Étienne. Inhabitants of the city are called Lyonnais. Lyon is the prefecture of the Rhône…

Cognac (Fr. Cognac) is a commune in southwestern France, a sub-prefecture of the Charente department (Nouvelle-Aquitaine region). Its inhabitants are the Cognacais and the Cognacaises. Cognac was a small village until the mid-tenth century. The oldest known…

Bordeaux (Fr. Bordeaux) is a port city on the Garonne river in the Gironde department in Southwestern France. It’s the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture of the Gironde department. An integral part of cultural Gascony, Bordeaux…

La Rochell is a town in the southwest of France, the historic capital of Aunis and the prefecture of the Charente-Maritime department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It’s a popular stop on the Atlantic resorts of France. With about 75,000 inhabitants in…

Nantes (fr. Nantes) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department in France on the Loire river, 50 km from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France. It’s a capital of the Pays de la Loire region. The city owes its development to its location…

Cannes (Fr. Cannes) is a commune in the Cannes Pays de Lérins agglomeration community located in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, France. It’s a popular part of the French Riviera of the Mediterranean resorts of France.…

Saint-Tropez (Fr. Saint-Tropez) is a city on the TOP French Riviera, 68 km (42 miles) west of Nice and 100 km (62 miles) east of Marseille in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, France. It’s a popular part of the French Riviera of…

Toulon (Fr. Toulon) is a city and a large port on the Mediterranean coast, with a major naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, France, Toulon is the capital of the Var department. It’s a popular part of the French Riviera of the Mediterranean…

The Pyrenees is one of the most interesting and rapidly developing skiing centres in France and Spain. It is unsurprising – stretched on 400 km (with a more than 70 km width) the mountain system having nearly one hundred peaks more than 2000 meters high could…

Monaco, officially the Principality of Monaco, is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Liguria, in Western Europe, on the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by France to the north, east…

Avignon (Fr. Avignon) is the prefecture of the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, France. It is one of the rare French towns to have preserved its ramparts and its historic centre, made up of the papal palace, the episcopal complex…

Marseille (Fr. Marseille) is the prefecture of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône and a capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, France. It is located on the Mediterranean coast near the mouth of the Rhône. Marseille is the second largest city in…

Nice (Fr. Nice) is the seventh most populous urban area in France and the capital of the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. It’s a popular part of the French Riviera of the Mediterranean resorts of France. Located between…

Montpellier  (fr. Montpellier, Occitan: Montpelhièr) is a city near the south coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea. It is the capital of the Hérault department in the Occitania region. Montpellier is the third-largest French city on the Mediterranean…

San Sebastián (or Donostia in Basque) is a coastal city and municipality, the capital of the Gipuzkoa province, and is located in the Basque Autonomous Community, in northern Spain. The city is located on the southern coast of the Bay of Biscay, 20 km from…

Bilbao is a city and a municipality in Spain, Basque Community, capital of the Biscay province. Located near the northern edge of the Iberian Peninsula, about 16 kilometers south of the Bay of Biscay, near the mouth of several rivers. The city is located…

Bayonne (fr. Bayonne) is a city in the Atlantic Pyrenees (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), in the south-west of France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. The city location is between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees massive foothills, at the confluence of the Nive and Adour …

Best sea and ocean resorts: France and Spain (223 objects) Spain Most of Spain is on the Pyrenees Peninsula, where the Atlantic Ocean washes it on one side and the Mediterranean Sea on the other. Therefore, Spain has never experienced a lack of resorts. Moreover…

Biarritz (fr. Biarritz) – a luxury resort town belonging to the Atlantic Pyrenees Department (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. Its current Basque name is Biarritz (or Miarritze), and its current Gascon name is…

Carcassonne (fr. Carcassonne) is a fortified town in the Aude department, Occitania Region, France. ‘The town is one of the most important historical sites in France; it is not only because of the ancient fortress itself but also due to its size. It consists…

Toulouse is a commune in southwest France in Occitania (being a capital of it), divided in half by the Garonne River and located about 200 km from the border with Spain (Pyrenees). The violet culture development in the nineteenth century led the French to…