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Cime de la Bonette (el. 2,860 metres or 9,383 feet) is a mountain in the French Alps, near the border with Italy. It is situated within the Mercantour National Park on the border of the departments of Alpes-Maritimes and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , between the Ubaye Valley and the valley of the Tinée River.
Hauts-de-France (French: [o d(ə) fʁɑ̃s] ⓘ; Picard: Heuts d'Franche; lit. ' Heights of France ' ), also referred to in English as Upper France , [ 3 ] is the northernmost region of France , created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy .
Puy de Sancy (US: / ˌ p w iː d ə s ɒ̃ ˈ s iː /, [1] French: [pɥi d(ə) sɑ̃si]; Auvergnat: Puèi de la Crotz [ˈpœj də lɔ ˈkɾu(ts)], lit. ' 'Mount of the Cross' ') is the highest mountain in the Massif Central, in Puy-de-Dôme departement of south central France. It is part of an ancient stratovolcano which has been inactive for ...
Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (French pronunciation: [le ply bo vilaʒ də fʁɑ̃s], lit. ' the most beautiful villages of France ' ) is an independent association created in 1982 for the promotion of the tourist appeal of small rural villages with a rich cultural heritage.
Northern Catalonia, North Catalonia [a] or French Catalonia is the formerly Catalan-speaking and cultural territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange of France's effective renunciation on the formal protection that it had given to the recently founded Catalan Republic.
The Peña de Francia is a mountain that rises to 1,727 m (5,666 ft), [1] south of the Salamanca, Autonomous Region of Castile and León, Spain, whose peak belongs to ...
Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg (French: Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, or Cathédrale de Strasbourg, German: Liebfrauenmünster zu Straßburg), also known as Strasbourg Minster (German: Straßburger Münster), is a Catholic cathedral in Strasbourg, Alsace, France.
The Sierra de Francia is a comarca located at the southern end of Salamanca Province, Castile and León, Spain.It is located about 70 km from Salamanca city. It borders with the Las Hurdes and Las Batuecas comarcas of Extremadura to the south; the Campo Charro to the north and the Sierra de Béjar to the east.