A refillable bottle can save a visitor a string of small purchases during a long day in Paris. The city's drinking fountains supply tap water free of charge, and the ornate Wallace fountains are among the most recognizable. There is a seasonal detail, though: many fountains are…
Walk out of the Cité du Vin in Bordeaux and the next building along is where you eat. Les Halles de Bacalan opened on November 9 2017 at 10 Esplanade…
Nantes is the city where you can ride a mechanical elephant. The Grand Éléphant is about 12 metres tall, 21 metres long and weighs 48.4 tonnes. It…
At the southern tip of Lyon's Presqu'île, where the Rhône and the Saône meet, there's a museum that looks like a cloud of glass and steel crashed…
Saint-Émilion sits forty minutes from Bordeaux and its Cité du Vin by local train and gets about a million visitors a year. That's a lot for a town…
If Paris is on your list for the next few years, cross one thing off. The Centre Pompidou is shut. Its modern art collection closed to the public on…
La Cité du Vin opened on the Garonne in June 2016 and turns ten this year. The building by XTU, the practice of Anouk Legendre and Nicolas…
Mont-Saint-Michel had 2,793,985 visitors in 2025, up 3.1% on the year before. On the busiest days more than 30,000 people squeeze up one narrow…
Notre-Dame reopened on December 8 2024, five and a half years after the fire. In its first year it took in about 11 million visitors. Before 2019 the…
