France
France
France Overview
France likes to think of itself as the most essential component in Europe. Foreigners think so, too. Its attractions are well known: it has the world’s best food, best wine, finest domestic architecture and a people who know how to dress.
Contrasting landscapes, traditions galore, a variety of dialects…40,000 monuments including 10,000 châteaux, abbeys and manor houses, 6,000 museums, 1,000 festivals: in France it is diversity that holds sway and the great wealth of its heritage provides remarkable evidence of this. (more…)