Must-SeeParis
France
The Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre-Dame and a thousand cafés. The world's most visited city, and it earns it.
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Western Europe
Paris, Amsterdam, canals and the French countryside.
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Must-SeePalace of Versailles
France
Louis XIV's staggering palace and gardens, with the Hall of Mirrors, a short train from Paris.
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Must-SeeAnnecy
France
A canal-laced old town on one of Europe's cleanest lakes, ringed by Alps.
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Must-SeeAmsterdam
Netherlands
Golden Age canals, the Rijksmuseum, Van Gogh and Anne Frank's house. Book ahead.
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Worth a DetourMont-Saint-Michel
France
A medieval abbey rising from a tidal bay on the Normandy coast.
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Worth a DetourThe French Riviera
France
Nice, Cannes, Antibes and hill villages like Èze, along a glamorous blue coast.
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Worth a DetourProvence
France
Avignon's papal palace, Roman Arles and Orange, the Pont du Gard, and purple lavender fields in early summer.
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Worth a DetourLoire Valley
France
Hundreds of Renaissance chateaux, with Chambord and Chenonceau, among vineyards.
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Worth a DetourNormandy D-Day Beaches
France
Omaha Beach, the American cemetery and the Bayeux Tapestry.
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Worth a DetourLourdes
France
The grotto where Bernadette saw the Virgin Mary, one of Catholicism's great pilgrimages.
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Worth a DetourMarseille and the Calanques
France
France's oldest city, with white limestone sea inlets on its edge.
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Worth a DetourCourchevel, Méribel and Val Thorens
France
The Three Valleys, the world's largest linked ski area.
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Worth a DetourDisneyland Paris
France
Europe's most visited theme park, a train ride from central Paris.
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Worth a DetourWaterloo
Belgium
Where Napoleon fell in 1815, with the Lion's Mound and a fine museum.
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Worth a DetourMonte Carlo
Monaco
The legendary casino, a palace on a rock, and an oceanographic museum.
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Worth a DetourKeukenhof and the Tulip Fields
Netherlands
Seven million bulbs, open for about eight weeks in spring.
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If You're NearbyChamonix and Mont Blanc
France
The birthplace of alpine sport, with a dizzying cable car up the Aiguille du Midi.
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If You're NearbyBordeaux and Saint-Émilion
France
An elegant port city, in the world's most famous wine region.
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If You're NearbyLyon
France
France's food capital, with Roman theaters, old silk-weavers' passages and cozy bouchons.
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If You're NearbyAlsace and Colmar
France
Half-timbered villages on a wine road, with Strasbourg's huge cathedral. Superb at Christmas.
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France
Prehistoric paintings at Lascaux, medieval villages, and a slow river with castles.
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If You're NearbyCorsica
France
A mountainous island with fine beaches, Napoleon's birthplace and the hard GR20 trail.
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If You're NearbyVal d'Isère and Tignes
France
High, snow-sure skiing in a historic village by the Vanoise national park.
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France
A vast glacial amphitheater, and an observatory on a peak with a cable car.
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France
A huge pink cathedral, half-timbered Petite France, and the European Parliament.
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France
The Western Front's great battlefields, with memorials, trenches and cemeteries.
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If You're NearbyBurgundy
France
Great wines around Beaune, with its famous tiled hospital, and Vézelay's abbey.
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France
A walled corsair port, wild coasts, and Carnac's thousands of standing stones.
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France
Cycling's great race, in July. Watch it free from a mountain roadside.
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France
The Tour de France's most famous climb, with 21 hairpins, above a sunny ski town.
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France
A chain of extinct volcanoes in central France, climbed by rack railway.
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France
Eight centuries of French kings, and the room where Napoleon abdicated.
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France
Perhaps the finest Gothic cathedral, with its original blue stained glass.
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Grenoble
France
The capital of the French Alps, with its bubble-shaped cable cars to a hilltop fort.
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Belgium
The Battle of the Bulge's turning point, with a huge American memorial.
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Netherlands
Girl with a Pearl Earring, and pretty Delft and its blue pottery.
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If You're NearbyUtrecht and Giethoorn
Netherlands
Canal-side wharves, and a village with no roads, only water.
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Netherlands
A forest park you cross by white bicycle, leading to Van Gogh paintings.
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