French food is sometimes reduced abroad to a collection of famous dishes, restaurants and elaborate sauces, but travelling through France makes it much easier to understand that the real characteristic of French cuisine is not one particular recipe but the...
Briare is one of the places where the history of transport can still be read directly in the landscape, because the town stands at the meeting point of the Loire, the Canal de Briare and the Canal latéral à la Loire, while immediately beside it the extraordinary...
Treigny-Perreuse-Sainte-Colombe is an unusual place even before considering its best-known attraction, because the long name does not describe a single village but a municipality formed from three distinct historic communities whose landscapes, architecture and...
Guédelon looks like a medieval castle that has somehow survived unfinished for eight centuries. It has round stone towers, arrow loops, curtain walls, vaulted rooms, timber roofs, a fortified gateway and wooden scaffolding wrapped around sections that are still...
Saint-Fargeau is one of the places in Burgundy where the castle overwhelms almost everything around it. The town itself is relatively small, but at its centre stands an enormous brick château with a moat, massive round towers and an unusual pentagonal plan. From the...
