France - tourist attractions (page 5)

	La Madeleine church	L'église de la Madeleine, popularly known as La Madeleine, is a Roman Catholic church located at the Place de la Madeleine, north of the Place de la Concorde, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The construction of the church started in 1764 and was led by the architect Pierre Constant d'Ivry wh...
	Conciergerie	La Conciergerie is a building located on the west side of the Île de la Cité in central Paris, close to the Cathedral of Notre-Dame, which in the past functioned as a royal palace and also as a prison. It belongs to the large complex of buildings known as the Palais de Justice which houses various c...
	Grand Théâtre	Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux, is a theatre in Bordeaux, France, first inaugurated on 17 April 1780. It was in this theatre that the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée premiered in 1789. The theatre was designed by the architect Victor Louis (1731–1800). Louis later designed the galleries surrounding the gard...
	Place des Quinconces	The Place des Quinconces, located in Bordeaux, France, is one of the largest city squares in Europe (approximately 31 acres or 126,000 m²). It was laid out in 1820 on the site of Château Trompette, intended to prevent rebellion against the city. The guns were turned towards the center. Its current ...
	Aiguille du Midi	The Aiguille du Midi(3,842 m) is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps. The name "Aiguille du Midi"translates literally as "Needle of the South". In the brochure for its cable car the Compagnie du Mont-Blanc asserts it gets its name from the fact that it is to the south when viewed...
	Villa Savoye	Villa Savoye is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete. A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points"of new architecture, the villa is ...
	Basilica of St Denis	The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Denis (Cathédrale royale de Saint-Denis, or simply Basilique Saint-Denis, previously the Abbaye de Saint-Denis) is a large medieval abbey church in the commune of Saint-Denis, now a northern suburb of Paris. The abbey church was created a cathedral in 1966 and is the ...
	Reims Cathedral	Notre-Dame de Reims (Our Lady of Rheims) is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Reims, where the kings of France were once crowned. It replaces an older church, destroyed by a fire in 1211, which was built on the site of the basilica where Clovis was baptized by Saint Remi, bishop of Reims, in AD 496. T...
	Château de Chambord	The royal Château de Chambord at Chambord, Loir-et-Cher, France, is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinct French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. The building, which was never comp...
	Château de Chenonceau	The Château de Chenonceau is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux, in the Indre-et-Loire départementof the Loire Valley in France. It was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designe...