Between Alps and Pyreneeses, Mediterranean and Atlantic variety with most different facets reveals itself. Whether great monuments of the stone age, roman arenas and theatre, skywards striving cathedrals, lovely Loire castles or the great pictures of the impressionists, here comes each tourist at its expense.
And then there is still the capital Paris, the centre of the nation - for most Frenchmen even centre of the world. With its medieval core, the buildings of splendors around the Place de la Concorde and the Champs Elysées, Paris is still a wonderful city.