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The Eiffel Tower seen from the Place du Trocadéro. Paris, the capital city of France, is the third most visited city in the world. [5]It has some of the world's largest and renowned museums, including the Louvre, which is the most visited art museum in the world, but also the Musée d'Orsay which, like the nearby Musée de l'Orangerie, is mostly devoted to impressionism, and Centre Georges ...
Aix-en-Provence, [a] or simply Aix, is a city and commune in southern France, about 30 km (20 mi) north of Marseille.A former capital of Provence, it is the subprefecture of the arrondissement of Aix-en-Provence, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhône, in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
The Louvre, like many other museums and galleries, felt the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage. It was closed for six months during French coronavirus lockdowns and saw visitor numbers plunge to 2.7 million in 2020, from 9.6 million in 2019 and 10.2 million in 2018, which was a record year. [79] [80]
Cap Fréhel is a peninsula in Côtes-d'Armor, in northern Brittany, France which extends off the Côte d'Émeraude into the Golfe de Saint-Malo. No towns or villages are situated on the peninsula; however, two lighthouses , one from the 17th century and the other one from 1950, are located at the tip of it.
The COVID-19 pandemic in France has resulted in 39,014,130 [1] confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 168,150 [1] deaths. The virus was confirmed to have reached France on 24 January 2020, when the first COVID-19 case in both Europe and France was identified in Bordeaux. The first five confirmed cases were all individuals who had recently arrived from ...
Cabourg (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Norman: Cabouorg) is a commune in the Calvados department, region of Normandy, France.Cabourg is on the coast of the English Channel, at the mouth of the river Dives.
Saint-Émilion (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃.t‿emiljɔ̃]; Gascon: Sent Milion) is a commune in the Gironde department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Southwestern France.. In the heart of the country of Libournais (the area around Libourne), in a region of wine hills, Saint-Émilion is a medieval city located at the crossroads of Bordeaux, Saintonge and Périgord.
Fontainebleau (/ ˈ f ɒ n t ɛ n b l oʊ / FON-ten-bloh, US also /-b l uː /-bloo, French: [fɔ̃tɛnblo] ⓘ) [3] is a commune in the metropolitan area of Paris, France.It is located 55.5 kilometres (34.5 mi) south-southeast of the centre of Paris.