Holidays in France

Holidays in France

Why not go on a vacation to France. It can be a great place for a vacation. There is great culture, and history for people to see as well as the great fun. The weather can be super. There are entertaibnment venues and sports venues as well as great musemus and art galleries. So why not have avacation in this great nation.

France has long been considered a centre for European art and music. The country boasts a wide variety of indigenous folk music, as well as styles played by immigrants from Africa, Latin America and Asia. In the field of classical music, France has produced a number of legendary composers, while modern pop music has seen the rise of popular French hip hop, techno / funk.

France offers mountain ranges, coastlines such as in Brittany or along the Mediterranean Sea, cities with a rich cultural heritage, châteaux (castles) like Versailles, and vineyards. Tourism is accountable for 6% of the country's income (4% from French tourists travelling inside France and 2% from foreign tourists), and contributes significantly to the balance of payments.

Provinces
Major Provinces of France before the Revolution, with provincial capitals marked. Listed as English name (capital). Cities in bold had provincial "parlements" or "conseils souverains".

Île-de-France ( Paris ) ; Berry (Bourges) ; Orléanais (Orléans) ; Normandie (Rouen) ; Languedoc (Toulouse) ; Lyonnais (Lyon) ; Dauphiné (Grenoble) ; Champagne (Troyes) ; Aunis (La Rochelle) ; Saintonge (Saintes) ; Poitou (Poitiers) ; Guyenne and Gascony (Bordeaux) ; Burgundy (Dijon) ; Picardy (Amiens) ; Anjou (Angers) ; Provence (Aix-en-Provence) ; Angoumois (Angoulême) ; Bourbonnais (Moulins) ; Marche (Guéret) ; Brittany (Rennes) ; Maine (Le Mans) ;Touraine (Tours) ; Limousin (Limoges) ; Foix (Foix) ; Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand) ; Béarn (Pau) ; Alsace (Strasbourg, cons. souv. in Colmar) ; Artois (Arras) ; Roussillon (Perpignan) ; Flanders and Hainaut (Lille, parlement in Douai) ; Franche-Comté (Besançon) ; Lorraine (Nancy) ; Corsica (off map, Ajaccio, cons. souv. in Bastia) ; Nivernais (Nevers) ; Comtat Venaissin, a Papal fief ; Imperial Free City of Mulhouse; Savoy, a Sardinian fief ; Nice, a Sardinian fief; Montbéliard, a fief of Württemberg, (not pictured) Trois-Évêchés ( Metz, Toul and Verdun). So why not have a vacation in one of these provences.

All over France rental accommodations and hotels are available. For example, the English like to spend their summers in the Dordogne valley, the Spanish vacation in Biarritz and St Jean de Luz on the Basque coast, and the Irish often visit Lourdes. France's Mediterranean beaches on the French Riviera, in Languedoc-Roussillon, or in Corsica, are famous. Away from the mainland tourists are French Polynesia, the Caribbean islands Martinique, Guadeloupe and others.

The Notable Gardens of France is a list and description of the two hundred and some gardens classified as "Jardins Remarquable" by the French Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France.