The Museum of Le Grand Blockhaus in Batz-sur-Mer in the Loire-Atlantique department of France, Pays de la Loire, Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Wall was an extensive system of coastal defences and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944, along…

The automobile museum (fr. Musée automobile de Ciré d’Aunis), located in Ciré-d’Aunis in Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, 14 kilometers north of Rochefort, is a museum that has 65 vintage cars (from 1912 to 1973) under 34 different…

The Saint-Jean-l’Évangéliste priory of Trizay is a former Benedictine priory founded in the eleventh century. Located in Trizay, in the department of Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, in the former province of Saintonge, it was a dependency of…

Sablonceaux Abbey (fr. Abbaye de Sablonceaux) is a former Augustinian monastery located in Sablonceaux in the Charente-Maritime department of south-western France, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is now occupied by members of the Chemin Neuf Community. Located about…

Naval Aeronautics Museum (fr. Musée de l’Aéronautique Navale) is located in Rochefort, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. The museum of naval aeronautics, located on the site of the former naval aeronautical base at Rochefort-Soubise in Charente-Maritime, is a museum…

Museum of Armoured Vehicles (fr. Musée des Blindés), or Musée Général Estienne is a tank museum located in the Loire Valley in the Saumur city, Maine-et-Loire department of France, Pays de la Loire. It is now one of the world’s largest tank museums. Started…

Rochefort-Martrou Transporter Bridge is a bridge built between 1898 and 1900 (27 months). It is located in Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France. Crossing the Charente River, it has a maximum height of 66.5 metres and a total length of…

Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild, also called Villa Île-de-France, is located in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, France. It’s one of the most beautiful Renaissance palaces on the Côte d’Azur built on a summit of the Cap…

Mougins (Fr. Mougins) is a commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region, France. It’s a popular part of the inland French Riviera of the Mediterranean resorts of France. It is located on the heights of Cannes, in the…

The Roda Roda – Lleida Automotive Museum (cat. Museu de l’Automoció Roda Roda) presents an extensive collection of cars, motorcycles, engines and scale reproductions which invite to take a journey through the world of the automotive industry through history.…

The Abbey of Caunes-Minervois (fr. Abbaye Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul de Caunes-Minervois) crosses time, from its famous Romanesque bedside to the Maurist cloister. You can also visit the archaeological remains of the medieval cloister and the Carolingian church…

Minerve (fr. Minerve, Occitan: Menèrba) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitania region in southern France. Nestled between two canyons covered in Mediterranean garrigue, Minerve is an imposing Cathar medieval city, listed among the most beautiful…

Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert Abbey or Gellone Abbey (fr. L’abbaye de Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert ou abbaye Saint-Sauveur de Gellone) is a Benedictine abbey in Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, Hérault department, Occitania, France, 40 km from Montpellier. It was founded in…

Saint-Michel de Grandmont Priory (fr. Prieuré Saint-Michel de Grandmont) is a former monastery of Grandmontine in the commune of Saint-Privat, in Hérault, Occitania, France. The priory is located in a wild area in heart of an oak forest, about 10 km from…

The Collegiate Church of Saint-Paul (fr. Collégiale Saint-Paul de Clermont-l’Hérault) is a Catholic church located in Clermont-l’Hérault, Hérault department, France, Occitania (foothills of the Massif Central). It has a beautiful interior, as well as aisles…

Lake Salagou (fr. Lac du Salagou) is a reservoir for the Salagou dam. It is located in the center of the Hérault department (Occitania, France, foothills of the Massif Central), on the Salagou river, a tributary of the Lergue river which flows into the Hérault.…

International toy museum (fr. Musée international du jouet) in Hérault department, Pézenas (Occitania, France). The museum is located in Pézenas town centre, ten metres from the Espace Molière. One can find more than the 7 500 art objects contained in this…

The largest Museum-Park in Europe devoted to dinosaurs (fr. Mèze Musée des Dinosaures) in the middle of an outstanding paleontological site, near Montpellier in the Hérault department in the Occitania region in southern France. An extraordinary voyage in…

Valmagne Abbey (fr. Abbaye de Valmagne) is a former Benedictine monastery located near Villeveyrac, Hérault department, in south-central France (Occitania). It is a designated historic monument. The abbey of Valmagne is one of the most beautiful Cistercian…

The Saint-Félix-de-Montceau abbey (fr. Abbaye Saint-Félix-de-Montceau) is an old abbey located on the Gardiole massif, in the town of Gigean, in the Hérault department in south-central France (Occitania). There is no exact date of the creation of the abbey…