Explore France

Podcaster Oliver Gee and his fiancée are looking for some help on where they should go and what they should see on their Amour de France honeymoon tour. Here, he explains more...

Emily Commander visits Beaune in Burgundy, where the town’s historic almshouse plays host to an annual charity wine auction

As the Open Gardens/Jardins Ouverts gets set for another big year, founder Mick Moat spoke to Jane Hanks

A tropical creation in the north and pioneering recycling in Paris

There is a special beach in central France that is unlike any other anywhere in the world and it has revealed new information about life on Earth 150 million years ago

Aquitaine’s fortified medieval ‘new towns’ called bastides are well known but Michael Delahaye discovers one in Britain and it has a singular link with the French originals

Every edition we assess an aspect of the French zeitgeist. This month: the trend towards less frantic holidays

Every month we will be sharing a photograph of a place in France. This month we take a look at the Abbaye de Sénanque in Vaucluse, Provence.

Biggest, longest, tallest, smallest, oldest and highest... From central Paris to the wilds of Auvergne, Samantha David picks some of France’s most exceptional locations to visit

France is dotted with spine-tingling destinations, from creepy churches and chateaux to chilling museums