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18 overlooked corners inside the great landmarks of France — sourced, multilingual, read aloud on the spot.

Centre Pompidou
In the heart of Paris, the Centre Pompidou turned architecture inside out — its pipes, escalators, and steel s…
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Château de Chambord
Deep inside Europe's largest walled hunting ground, Château de Chambord is the grandest castle in the Loire Va…
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Château de Montsoreau
Château de Montsoreau is the only castle in the Loire Valley built directly on a riverbed — it sits on a jutti…
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Château de Montsoreau — Museum of Contemporary Art
Built between the 15th and 16th centuries on the Loire Valley floodplain, Château de Montsoreau is the only ca…
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Eiffel Tower
A 330-metre wrought-iron tower rising from the Champ de Mars on the Left Bank of the Seine, in Paris's 7th arr…
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La Défense
Paris's great historical axis begins at the Louvre and runs due west — down the Champs-Élysées, through the Ar…
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Millau Viaduct
The Millau Viaduct spans the Tarn Valley in the Aveyron département of southern France — a cable-stayed bridge…
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Montmartre
Montmartre is a hilltop neighbourhood in Paris's 18th arrondissement, crowned by the Sacré-Cœur Basilica and r…
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Moulin Rouge
In the Pigalle district at the foot of Montmartre, the first thing you notice is a giant red windmill lit up a…
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Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris stands on the Île de la Cité in the Seine, the cathedral church of the Archdiocese of Pari…
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Palace of Fontainebleau
About 60 kilometres south-east of Paris, the Palace of Fontainebleau is a royal château blending Renaissance a…
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Palace of Versailles
The Palace of Versailles sits about sixteen kilometres south-west of Paris — at once a royal château and one o…
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Panthéon
Carved across the pediment are the words: "Aux grands hommes, la patrie reconnaissante" — To great men, a grat…
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Pont du Gard
Standing beside the Pont du Gard, the slightly lower stone bridge under your feet is the Pont Pitot. It isn't…
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Sacré-Cœur Basilica
Climb to the summit of Montmartre and you can see its white domes from almost anywhere in Paris. Sacré-Cœur is…
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The Bastille
The Bastille was not always a prison. It began as a fortified castle built in the fourteenth century to defend…
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Tuileries Palace
Follow the Champs-Élysées east from the Arc de Triomphe and your eye lands on Paris's great historical axis —…
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Île de la Cité
This boat-shaped island at the heart of the Seine is considered the cradle of Paris. The ancient Gallo-Roman c…
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