France  
Avignon
Bridge at Avignon
  The Bridge at Avignon is known throughout the world due to the classic song "Sur le Pont d'Avignon". Built between 1177 and 1185 as a wooden bridge, it was for a long time the only bridge across the Rhône south of Lyon. Demolished after the fall of Avignon in 1226 by Louis VIII of France it was rebuilt as a stone bridge in 1234 but was completely abandoned in 1680. Today only four of the original 22 arches remain.  READ MORE  

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Palace of the Popes'
The Palace of the Popes in Avignon became the Papal residence between 1309 to 1377 when the Papal Curia moved there from Rome. Today it consists of two main buildings: The Old Palace, constructed in the Romanesque style by Benedict XII between 1334 and 1342, and the New Palace of Gothic design constructed by Clement VI between 1342 and 1352. It covers an area of 15,000 square meters and is one of Frances's most visited monuments.  READ MORE

 

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  Marseille
Notre-Dame de la Garde

The Catholic Basilica built in 1852 on the foundations of a 16th-century fort situated on a hill overlooking Marseille. With its crypt hewn out of the rock the basilica with its 11.2 meter high statue of the Madonna and Child made of copper and gilded with gold leaf on the top of its Bell Tower, is the most-visited site in Marseille.  READ MORE 
     

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  Abbey of Saint Victor
 
The Abbey of Saint Victor, Marseille was built in the 11th and 14th centuries and stands over an earlier crypt that houses early Christian sarcophagi. Between 11th and 18th centuries the abbey played an important role in Christianity’s development in the Mediterranean. READ MORE  

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  Toulon
Toulon Cathedral
  Located in the centre of the old town near the waterfront of Toulon, construction on the Cathedral, known as the Cathedral Notre-Dame-de-la-Seds, started in 1096 on the orders of Gilbert de Boson, Count of Provence to offer thanks to the Virgin for his safe return from the Crusades. Built on the site of a former church which was on the site since the 5th century, the cathedral took 700 years to build and consists of a mixture of styles including Romanesque, Gothic and Classical. READ MORE  

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  Corsica
Ajaccio


Maison Bonaparte
(Napoleon Bonaparte’s House)





  Maison Bonaparte is the house where Napoleon Bonaparte was born and was in the Bonaparte family from 1682 until 1923.  In 1967 it became a national museum displaying not only the rooms and furnishings but also artifacts relating to the Bonaparte family. READ MORE







 

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Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral

  Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral was built between 1577 and 1593 and is an example of   Counter-Reformation architecture. Known for its connection to the Bonaparte family, it contains the marble Baptismal font in which Napoleon was baptised on 21 July 1771, and the altar given by Napoleon’s sister Elisa in 1809.  READ MORE