Our mission is to explore as many places in the south of France as possible and bring you all the highlights, the nitty-gritty details, and the reality. The attractions…and perhaps the places to avoid.
The part of France that we cover includes four French administrative regions – from west to east these are Aquitaine, Midi-Pyrenees, Languedoc-Roussillon and Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur. Occasionally we drift a little to the north of these but not usually too far…
These region names are not especially well known but you have heard of (and perhaps visited) the places they include, for they contain many well known destinations – from the Dordogne to the Luberon, from Gascony to the high Pyrenees, and from the French Riviera to the Atlantic beaches.
Between the Atlantic coast and Biarritz to the west and the French Riviera to the east, these parts of the south of France in turn include a remarkable number of places worth visiting, with many highlights including for example:
- numerous villages classified among the most beautiful villages of France, and many villages that are equally beautiful but slightly less well known – or on some occasions very isolated!
- significant and important Roman ruins, especially in the region around Arles
- renowned pilgrimage towns such as Rocamadour,
- the castles of the Dordogne department,
- the perched villages of Provence
- the world famous coastal resorts such as St Tropez and Nice, and many other fine beaches both along the Atlantic coast and the Languedoc coast in southern France
- an enormous diversity of landscapes from the Bordeaux vineyards to the fields of sunflowers in Gascony, to the craggy coastline around Marseille and the high mountains of the Alps
Using this site
Each place, site or highlight has been given more than one tag or category – for example a village in the Dordogne will be listed under ‘villages’ and ‘Dordogne’ and perhaps also ‘castles’ or ‘river’.
So go ahead, start exploring using the menu, the ‘tags’ and ‘categories’ and discover somewhere new in the south of France for your next visit – because one thing is sure, even if you have visited many times before there is always something new to discover!
