Rocamadour, France

Rocamadour is a village in the southwest of France.
Rocamadour is very unique because of the way it was constructed on a steep rock face of the valley, over the centuries there has has attracted pilgrims from many countries, it is now mainly a tourist destination, and for good reason Apart from the view and the historical structures is Rocamadour also world famous for its cheese (Rocamadour cheese).

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Lochnagar Crater, France

Lochnagar Crater is probably the most famous (and terrible) residues at the senseless slaughter of the Somme (World War I - I, France). The scale of Lochnagar Crater is huge (more than 90 meters wide and 30 meters deep.) The Lochnagar Crater was (also known as known as "The Moles") of a gigantic subterranean explosion of British soldiers from the Royal Engineer tunneling companies that excavated set formed a 600 meters' attack tunnel "under the German trenches, where they placed and detonated two mines on 1 July 1916 briefly - it is not the British too much and the Battle of the Somme raged for a further 4 months in which more than 420,000 European men lost their lives. The Battle of the Somme was truly a war within a war, which was also the first operation in the history that the tank was used. Adolf Hitler was wounded in this battle (it's a shame that he did not die from the injury ...)

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Carcassonne, France

Carcassonne (south of France) stands on a hill since pre-Roman times, it is a fortified walled city that has some serious restoration work in the second half of the 19th century.
Carcassonne really brings you back the way an old-medieval town probably really felt like
For more information visit Wikipedia - Carcassonne

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Mt. Aiguille du Midi, France

Mt. Aiguille du Midi is next to the Mont Blanc massif in the Alps, France.
There is a long cable car that takes you all the way to a panoramic viewing platform, a café and an amazing bridge that is quite breathtaking as you can see in the images below

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Eiffel Tower, Paris, France

The Eiffel Tower (or as the French, you name it - La Tour Eiffel,) is an iron tower (named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel). built in 1889 and today is probably one of the most famous buildings in the world, down here in a few spectacular photographs sums

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Château de Chenonceau, France.

Chenonceau, Loire Valley, France.

Chenonceau is a manor house near the small village of Chenonceaux in the Loire Valley.
It was built on the River Cher, in the final location of an old mill of the 11 century, was burned down and rebuilt in the 15th century.

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Rennes le Chateau, France

Rennes-le-Château is a small village in southern France, many conspiracy theories towards the village have been conducted, some say, a priest named Bérenger Saunière discovered a buried treasure (somewhere around the 19th century), which is the exact treasure is disputed, the claims divers (the treasures of the Temple of Solomon, the Ark of the Covenant and the Menorah). After Dan Brown's novel "The Da Vinci Code" printed the village was almost tripled the amount of tourists. the Spactacular bulding the Tour Magdala between 1898-1905 is on the edge of the village, the. as a library to Saint Mary Magdalene was used dedicated, until today there is no certainty where did Bérenger Saunière the money to fund all had buildings he was found guilty in 1911 (at the church) in the sale of ecclesiastical privileges (such as pardons or sinecures), but that's still not enough to oppose the many conspiracy theories.

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Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe, France

Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe is a chapel in Aiguilhe, France.

The chapel was built in 962 on a volcanic rock reach 85 m in height built on its surroundings.
to visit, there are 268 levels (which were set in stone).
For more information visit Wikipedia Michel d'Aiguilhe

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Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, France

Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc (Cape Eden Rock), on the cost of the "Côte d'Azur" (almost halfway between Nice and Cannes), France.
With a great view of the Mediterranean sea and the Lérins Islands on one side and a large pine forest on the other side.
The hotel was originally built as a private mansion Villa Soleil in 1863 ("Villa of the Sun"), the hotel itself was first built in 1870 opened

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Mont Saint-Michel, France

Mont Saint-Michel (St Michael's Mount) is a rocky tidal island (This means that there is an island only at high tide) in Normandy, French.

Mont Saint-Michel is located right on the unloading point Couesnon river meets the ocean. Today there are less than 50 people actually living on the island, and it is believed it was first settled around the 8th century

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