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📍 Alsace
170 km of vineyards along France’s oldest wine route.
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Alsace-Moselle Memorial
📍 Schirmeck · Bas-Rhin (67)
A powerful museum on the fate of the people of Alsace and Moselle from 1870 to European reconciliation.
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Basilica of Saint-Remi
📍 Marne (51)
A vast Romanesque and Gothic basilica housing the tomb of Saint Remi, a World Heritage Site.
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Bitche Citadel
📍 Moselle (57)
An imposing pink sandstone citadel built by Vauban, towering over the town of Bitche.
Boat Trip in Colmar
📍 Colmar · Haut-Rhin (68)
A flat-bottomed boat ride through “La Petite Venise”, gliding at water level past the flower-decked half-timbered houses of old Colmar.
Boat Trip on the Ill in Strasbourg
📍 Strasbourg · Bas-Rhin (67)
Discover the Alsatian capital by boat: La Petite France, the Ponts Couverts, the imperial Neustadt and the European Quarter, along the River Ill.
Bourbonne-les-Bains Spa
📍 Bourbonne-les-Bains · Haute-Marne (52)
The only spa resort in Haute-Marne with hot springs, known since Antiquity and with a long military tradition.
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Centre Pompidou-Metz
📍 Moselle (57)
The Metz outpost of the Centre Pompidou: modern and contemporary art beneath a vast undulating roof, an architectural statement.
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Champagne Cellars, Reims
📍 Marne (51)
Chalk cellars (crayères) and champagne houses to visit, with tastings.
Champagne Tasting in Épernay
📍 Épernay · Marne (51)
A cellar tour and tasting on the famous Avenue de Champagne, home to the most prestigious houses.
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Château de Lunéville
📍 Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
The “Versailles of Lorraine”: an 18th-century château with formal French gardens.
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Cité de l’Automobile — Schlumpf Collection (National Automobile Museum)
📍 Haut-Rhin (68)
The world’s largest car collection (the Schlumpf Collection), including a unique array of Bugattis.
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Cité du Vitrail (Stained Glass Centre)
📍 Aube (10)
A stained-glass interpretation centre in the Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte, at the heart of the “holy city of stained glass”.
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Colmar — La Petite Venise (Little Venice)
📍 Haut-Rhin (68)
Flower-decked canals and an old town at the heart of the vineyards.
Colmar Christmas Market
📍 Colmar · Haut-Rhin (68)
Six Christmas markets and nearly 200 stallholders in the fairy-tale setting of the old town and La Petite Venise.
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Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
📍 Haute-Marne (52)
General de Gaulle’s village, dominated by a huge 44 m Cross of Lorraine.
Cycling the Alsace Wine Route
📍 Colmar · Haut-Rhin (68)
Around 130 km of cycle route through the vineyards, from Marlenheim to Thann, via Riquewihr, Eguisheim and Kaysersberg.
Cycling the Rhine (EuroVelo 15)
📍 Strasbourg · Bas-Rhin (67)
180 km of cycle paths along the Rhine, from Lauterbourg to Huningue: one of the best-equipped cycle routes in France.
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Domrémy-la-Pucelle (Joan of Arc)
📍 Vosges (88)
Birthplace of Joan of Arc, with her childhood home and the Basilica of Bois-Chenu.
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Douaumont Ossuary
📍 Meuse (55)
A monumental necropolis watching over the remains of some 130,000 unknown soldiers from the Battle of Verdun.
Downhill Skiing at Gérardmer – La Mauselaine
📍 Gérardmer · Vosges (88)
One of the largest downhill ski areas in the Vosges: some forty kilometres of forest runs, with the Famille Plus label, for all levels.
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Écomusée d’Alsace (Open-Air Museum)
📍 Haut-Rhin (68)
France’s largest open-air museum: a reconstructed Alsatian village of 70 buildings.
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Essoyes
📍 Aube (10)
A village in the Ource valley where Renoir had his house and studio; the Espace des Renoir is open to visitors.
Fort de Schoenenbourg – Maginot Line
📍 Hunspach · Bas-Rhin (67)
One of the main Maginot Line forts open to visitors: nearly 3 km of galleries up to 30 m underground.
Hartmannswillerkopf – Vieil Armand
📍 Wattwiller · Haut-Rhin (68)
First World War battlefield and military cemetery, a summit memorial overlooking the Alsace plain.
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Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle
📍 Bas-Rhin (67)
A medieval fortress perched at 757 m, overlooking the Alsace plain.
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Hautvillers
📍 Marne (51)
A wine village known as the “cradle of champagne”, where Dom Pérignon worked at the Abbey of Saint-Pierre.
Hiking the Route des Crêtes
📍 Col de la Schlucht · Vosges (88)
Panoramic trails along the Vosges summits, from high pastures to farm inns (fermes-auberges).
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Le Hohneck
📍 Vosges (88)
The third-highest summit in the Vosges (1,363 m) and the highest point in Lorraine, a balcony over the Vallée des Lacs.
Hunawihr
📍 Hunawihr · Haut-Rhin (68)
One of the Plus Beaux Villages de France, famous for its fortified church and NaturOparC, cradle of the reintroduction of storks in Alsace.
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Hunspach
📍 Bas-Rhin (67)
Voted the French public’s favourite village in 2020, with the white half-timbered houses of the Outre-Forêt.
Hunspach
📍 Hunspach · Bas-Rhin (67)
One of the Plus Beaux Villages de France, famous for its white half-timbered houses and bulging windowpanes.
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Kaysersberg
📍 Haut-Rhin (68)
Voted the French public’s favourite village in 2017, nestled among the vines below its castle.
Kaysersberg
📍 Kaysersberg · Haut-Rhin (68)
Birthplace of Albert Schweitzer, voted the French public’s favourite village, nestled below its castle in the heart of the vineyards.
Lac d’Orient – Forêt d’Orient
📍 Mesnil-Saint-Père · Aube (10)
A large lake in the Forêt d’Orient: beach, sailing, swimming and a bird reserve near Troyes.
Lac de Madine
📍 Nonsard-Lamarche · Meuse (55)
A vast leisure lake at the foot of the Côtes de Meuse: beaches, sailing, cycling and birdwatching.
Lac de Pierre-Percée
📍 Pierre-Percée · Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
“Lorraine’s fjords”: a large lake among forests and peninsulas, with canoeing, treetop adventure and supervised swimming at the nearby Lac de la Plaine.
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Lake Gérardmer
📍 Vosges (88)
The largest natural lake in the Vosges, with plenty of water sports.
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Langres
📍 Haute-Marne (52)
A town of art entirely encircled by ramparts, overlooking the Marne; birthplace of Diderot.
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Metz Cathedral (Saint-Étienne)
📍 Moselle (57)
The “Good Lord’s Lantern”, with vast expanses of Gothic stained glass.
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Mont Sainte-Odile
📍 Bas-Rhin (67)
A convent perched on a Vosges spur, Alsace’s foremost pilgrimage site, with views over the plain.
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Musée de l’École de Nancy
📍 Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
The Art Nouveau museum in the villa of patron Eugène Corbin: Gallé, Daum, Majorelle.
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Obernai
📍 Bas-Rhin (67)
A fortified medieval town at the foot of Mont Sainte-Odile, on the Alsace Wine Route.
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Palais du Tau
📍 Marne (51)
The former archbishops’ palace, where coronation banquets of the kings of France were held; a UNESCO site next to the cathedral.
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La Petite France, Strasbourg
📍 Bas-Rhin (67)
A quarter of half-timbered houses lining the River Ill.
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Place Ducale
📍 Ardennes (08)
A magnificent 17th-century royal square, the younger sister of the Place des Vosges, at the heart of Charleville-Mézières.
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Place Stanislas, Nancy
📍 Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
An 18th-century royal square, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Reims Cathedral
📍 Marne (51)
Coronation church of the kings of France, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Reims Tour, City of Coronations
📍 Reims · Marne (51)
Notre-Dame Cathedral, where the kings of France were crowned, the Basilica of Saint-Remi and the Art Deco centre of the Champagne city.
Ribeauvillé
📍 Ribeauvillé · Haut-Rhin (68)
A town of art at the foot of three castles, capital of the minstrels and home of the Pfifferdaj festival.
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Les Riceys
📍 Aube (10)
Champagne’s largest wine-growing commune, the only one producing 3 AOCs, including the famous Rosé des Riceys.
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Rocroi
📍 Ardennes (08)
A star-shaped fortified town, a masterpiece of military architecture, famous for the battle of 1643.
Saint-Louis–Arzviller Boat Lift (Inclined Plane)
📍 Saint-Louis · Moselle (57)
A spectacular boat lift: a giant tank slides sideways down the slope, single-handedly replacing 17 locks on the Marne–Rhine Canal.
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Sainte-Croix Wildlife Park
📍 Moselle (57)
A vast park devoted to European wildlife (wolves, bears, lynx, bison) roaming in semi-freedom, at Rhodes.
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Sedan Castle
📍 Ardennes (08)
Europe’s largest fortified castle (35,000 m²).
Skiing at La Bresse
📍 La Bresse · Vosges (88)
The biggest resort in the Vosges: downhill skiing, snowboarding and sledging on the slopes of La Bresse-Hohneck.
Spa Town of Plombières-les-Bains
📍 Plombières-les-Bains · Vosges (88)
A spa town beloved of Napoleon III: Second Empire and Belle Époque heritage to explore on foot (spa facilities currently closed).
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Strasbourg Cathedral
📍 Bas-Rhin (67)
A Gothic masterpiece in pink sandstone, crowned by a 142 m spire.
Strasbourg Christmas Market – Christkindelsmärik
📍 Strasbourg · Bas-Rhin (67)
France’s oldest Christmas market (1570): eight markets across the historic centre and more than 3 million visitors.
Treetop Adventure at Parc Alsace Aventure
📍 Breitenbach · Bas-Rhin (67)
In the heart of Champ du Feu, more than 10 activities and 6 levels of treetop courses, from green to super-black.
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Troyes — Medieval Old Town
📍 Aube (10)
A half-timbered centre and the historic capital of Champagne.
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Troyes Cathedral (Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul)
📍 Aube (10)
A vast Gothic cathedral showcasing an exceptional collection of 13th- to 16th-century stained glass.
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Unterlinden Museum
📍 Haut-Rhin (68)
Colmar’s major art museum, home to Grünewald’s famous Isenheim Altarpiece.
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Verdun
📍 Meuse (55)
A world capital of remembrance overlooking the Meuse, with medieval gates and a fortified centre.
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Verdun Memorial
📍 Meuse (55)
Battlefield and memorial of the First World War.
Verdun Underground Citadel
📍 Verdun · Meuse (55)
An immersive ride by small railcar through 7 km of tunnels where the soldiers of 1914-18 lived.
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Villa Majorelle
📍 Meurthe-et-Moselle (54)
An Art Nouveau manifesto: the first entirely Art Nouveau house in France, home of Louis Majorelle.
Vittel Spa
📍 Vittel · Vosges (88)
A world-famous mineral spring: spa park, spa and golf course in vast wooded grounds.
La Volerie des Aigles (Eagle Park)
📍 Kintzheim · Bas-Rhin (67)
Free-flying birds of prey displays in the ruins of a fortified castle: eagles, vultures and falcons.
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Vosges Mountains
📍 Vosges (88)
Forests, rounded ballons (summits), glacial lakes and the Route des Crêtes, between Lorraine and Alsace.
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