Explore France

We continue our myths and legends’ series with a look west to a sunken city, the origins of Bluebeard and the popular tale of John the bear

Know your coastal ‘Labourdine’, the ‘Navarre’ style along the Spanish border, and the ‘Souletine’ of the Béarn region

Journalist Sally Ann Voak continues working through her late husband’s travel bucket list by paying tribute to a beloved friend – and unpicking a saucy French legend

We continue our myths and legends’ series with a look south to a devil’s bridge, a healing tooth, two strange creatures and a stone woman

The train de la Rhune welcomes around 350,000 visitors per year

Holy relics, miracles and a necropolis of the dukes of Bourbon have put Souvigny’s priory church on the pilgrimage map since medieval times

Michel Cessateur has been involved with every fountain in the city since the end of the 1970s and now shows tourists his favourites

Saint-Dalmas-de-Tende border station in Alpes-Maritimes was once pride of the Italian railways before falling into dereliction – now the French could bring it back to life

We continue our myths and legends’ series with a look east to a mysterious mountain peak, a ghostly lady, a family of giants and a demonic horse 

Walk over the Large Hadron collider or step into a different time zone, we share five places you can stroll from France to a foreign town