The "Les Plus Beaux Villages de France" label, created in 1982, now recognises 184 towns of under 2,000 residents spread across 72 departments and 14 regions — Occitanie leads with 51 villages, with the Aveyron the department with the most (11). Here you'll find all 184 labelled villages, listed alphabetically, each located on the interactive map with several photos where available.
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A fortified village perched above the Ardèche gorges, offering a spectacular panorama over the limestone cliffs.
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A typical Basque village with red and green half-timbered houses, a historic stop on the Camino de Santiago.
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A medieval village dominated by the ruins of its fortress, crossed by the crystal-clear waters of the Anglin river.
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A hilltop Luberon village with a picturesque medieval centre, crowned by its château, open to visitors.
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A flower-decked village on the banks of the Allier, entirely restored around its château and famous floral park.
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A village built on a volcanic outcrop overlooking the infant Loire, crowned by the ruins of a medieval château.
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A village on the Île de Ré with a black-and-white spire used as a landmark by sailors, between salt marshes and whitewashed streets.
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A village carved into the cliff overlooking the Dronne, famous for its monolithic church entirely hewn from the rock.
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A village nestled at the bottom of a rocky cirque, with turreted houses typical of the Quercy, near a spectacular waterfall.
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A village dominated by its circular market hall with Tuscan columns, a former potters' town overlooking the Garonne.
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A medieval village clinging to a cliff above the Ardèche, with cobbled streets and vaulted passageways.
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A grey-granite Norman fishing port, the former departure point of William the Conqueror for England.
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The highest village in the Var, perched at 1,097 metres, dominated by the ruins of a medieval château, with preserved cobbled streets.
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A village nestled at the bottom of a spectacular reculée, built around a Benedictine abbey that founded the vin jaune tradition.
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A village nicknamed the ‘Limousin Riviera’ for its mild climate, around its Romanesque abbey church with a renowned sculpted tympanum.
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A village nestled at the foot of a restored château overlooking the Aveyron, crossed by a humpbacked medieval bridge.
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A hilltop village of the Périgord Noir, famous for its troglodyte dwellings and its 15th-century covered market.
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An Alsatian wine town encircled by 14th-century ramparts, with colourful half-timbered houses on the wine route.
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An iconic village of the Pays d'Auge, voted one of the most beautiful villages in France, with colourful half-timbered houses.
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A village dominated by its medieval fortress overlooking the Dordogne valley.
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A Norman village of the Pays d'Auge with half-timbered market halls, between rolling bocage and apple orchards.
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A medieval village with half-timbered houses, founded around a 9th-century Benedictine abbey.
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A high-mountain village with preserved stone and slate houses, at the gateway to the Vanoise national park.
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A Var village decked with mimosa in winter, voted the French people's favourite village in 2026, between hills and the Mediterranean.
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A fortified village at the confluence of two rivers, dominated by its medieval château on a rocky spur.
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A medieval village dominated by twin châteaux, perched on a cliff overlooking the Aveyron.
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A fortified village around a Benedictine abbey, encircled by ramparts and moats in the heart of the Mirepoix region.
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A village at the confluence of the Vienne and the Loire, where Saint Martin died, around its fortified Gothic collegiate church.
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A village perched on a rocky spur overlooking the Lot, a former Gallic oppidum with preserved medieval streets.
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A fortified village of the Quercy, with the remains of feudal towers bearing witness to its past as a stronghold.
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A medieval village on the banks of the Dordogne, renowned for its Cluniac priory and sculpted Romanesque cloister.
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An Albigensian bastide perched with a panorama over the Grésigne forest, its arcaded square preserved.
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A village dominated by its medieval fortress facing the Château de Beynac, offering one of the valley's finest viewpoints.
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A medieval ochre-stone village dominated by its château, nestled at the foot of the Aspres massif.
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A Limousin village around its 12th-century Romanesque abbey church, one of the largest churches in the Creuse.
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A former fortified county town, renowned for its traditional mustard and half-timbered market halls.
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A village perched on a rocky promontory, famous for its vin jaune produced on the surrounding hillsides.
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A fortified village dominated by its medieval château, with a panorama over the Burgundy canal and the Auxois.
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A Drôme village with flower-decked streets against the mountainside, at the heart of a renowned small high-altitude vineyard.
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A hilltop village of the Nice hinterland, nicknamed ‘village of the sun’, with sundials painted by artists.
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A village entirely built of red sandstone, with turrets and manor houses typical of the Bas-Limousin.
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A town fortified by Vauban between two forts, surrounded by intact ramparts at the heart of the Haut Verdon.
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A medieval village nestled in a valley, a major stop on the Camino de Santiago with its UNESCO-listed Romanesque abbey church.
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A hilltop medieval bastide that seems to float above the morning mist, a former town of craftsmen and merchants.
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A Provençal village nestled at the foot of a tuff cliff riddled with troglodyte caves, crowned by two watchtowers.
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A troglodyte village of the Touraine with white tuffeau houses, dominated by the remains of a 15th-century château.
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A village with three châteaux and picturesque streets, where writer Colette took refuge during the war.
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A hilltop royal bastide offering one of the finest panoramas over the Dordogne valley.
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A concentric circular village around its château, cradle of the Alsatian vineyards and the French people's favourite village in 2013.
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A town fortified by Vauban on the banks of the Var, accessible by a drawbridge, dominated by its hilltop citadel.
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A village dominated by the château of the Counts of Estaing, a stop on the Camino de Santiago on the banks of the Lot.
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A Catalan village perched in an amphitheatre facing the Canigó, considered one of the sunniest in France.
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A fortified hilltop village in Burgundy, famous for its abbey and its aniseed sweets, popularised by the film Chocolat.
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A village around Europe's largest royal abbey, the Plantagenet necropolis housing the effigies of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Richard the Lionheart.
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The only circular bastide in Gascony, built around a round square lined with arcades and covered walkways.
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A Berry village on the banks of the Creuse, where writer George Sand used to stay, with picturesque streets and a medieval château.
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A hilltop village of the Gulf of Saint-Tropez, with flower-decked streets and a panorama over the vineyards and the sea.
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A medieval town decked with roses, immortalised by painter Henri Le Sidaner, who had his home there.
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A village perched in an amphitheatre on its rocky spur, overlooking the Luberon valley, famous for its dry-stone houses.
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A medieval village perched at 760 metres, dizzyingly overlooking the Gorges du Loup and the French Riviera.
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A village dominated by its Renaissance château where the Marquise de Sévigné stayed, famous for her letters.
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A Creole village nestled in the Salazie cirque, renowned for its traditional houses with lambrequins and its thermal springs.
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An Ardennes village dominated by the ruins of a fortress, with blue-schist houses typical of the Thiérache.
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A town fortified by Vauban at the heart of the marshes, the presumed birthplace of Samuel de Champlain, founder of Quebec.
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An Alsatian wine village surrounded by vineyards, known for its fortified church and its stork park.
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An Alsatian village with white half-timbered houses typical of the Outre-Forêt, voted the French people's favourite village in 2020.
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A Navarrese bastide founded in 1312, with red half-timbered houses typical of the Basque Country, around its fortified church.
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A former Templar and later Hospitaller commandery, entirely fortified on the Larzac causse.
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An Île de Ré fishing port with white houses and colourful shutters, between lively market halls and a covered market.
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A hilltop village with a panorama over the Rhône valley, with its aromatic herb garden.
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A fortified village perched on a basalt plateau, a former stronghold defending the Gorges du Chassezac.
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The only labelled village in Île-de-France, with troglodyte houses built around a keep overlooking the Seine.
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A Gascon village known for its legend of the cats and its UNESCO-listed Saint-Pierre collegiate church.
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A troglodyte village nestled between cliff and the Dordogne river, among the most photographed in the Périgord.
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A medieval village perched on a promontory overlooking the Sautadet cascades, on the Cèze river.
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A medieval village at the gateway to the Corbières, built around its Benedictine abbey and its old bridge.
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The smallest fortified town in France, nicknamed ‘the Carcassonne of the Gers’ for its intact ramparts.
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A hilltop medieval bastide, capital of pink garlic, adorned with a restored windmill and half-timbered houses.
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A hilltop bastide of the white Quercy, a stop on the Camino de Santiago, with an arcade-lined shaded square.
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A Gascon village dominated by its Renaissance château, with a panorama over the hills of the Gers.
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A village on the banks of the Loir, dominated by the ruins of an imposing medieval keep, with troglodyte houses.
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A village on the banks of the Senouire, built around a Benedictine abbey adorned with rare Romanesque frescoes.
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A village nestled in a meander of the Allier, built around a former Benedictine priory.
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A Norman village around a Benedictine abbey founded in the 11th century, with flower-decked half-timbered houses.
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A fortified Var village with cobbled streets and stone arcades, overlooking the Bandol vineyards.
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A fortified village of the Margeride, encircled by medieval ramparts, at the gateway to the Gévaudan.
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A former Knights of Malta commandery perched on a hill, with carefully restored stone streets.
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A village perched on a rocky spur, dominated by the ruins of its medieval fortress, offering an exceptional panorama over the Alpilles.
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A hilltop village at the confluence of the Vézère and the Dordogne, with a panorama over both valleys.
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A Breton granite-stone village, famous for its Renaissance houses and its former linen-weaving tradition.
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A terraced wine village on the banks of the Loue, one of the oldest vineyards of the Jura and Franche-Comté.
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A hilltop village offering one of the finest panoramas of the Quercy, over the Dordogne valley and neighbouring châteaux.
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A Provençal village of the Luberon where writer Albert Camus is buried, dominated by its Renaissance château.
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A fortified hilltop village overlooking the Gard hills, dominated by its château surrounded by ramparts.
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A typical Norman village with half-timbered and pink-brick houses, nestled at the heart of a vast beech forest.
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A medieval village of the Cantal with volcanic-stone houses, encircled by its former fortifications.
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A town with seven medieval towers, former capital of the viscounty of Turenne, renowned for its 18th-century market hall.
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A Cathar village perched on a rocky spur between two gorges, famous for its historic siege of 1210.
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A village perched in an amphitheatre over the Rhône valley, a former painters' village rediscovered by André Lhote.
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An Alsatian wine village with Renaissance houses and half-timbered courtyards, on the wine route.
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A town of character perched on a promontory, retaining fortified gates and half-timbered houses.
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A Tarn village on the banks of the Cérou, renowned for its sculpted 15th-century Holy Sepulchre ensemble.
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A 13th-century royal bastide built in a star shape, with a central square surrounded by preserved covered walkways and arcades.
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An admirably preserved 13th-century English bastide, with its arcaded square and medieval market halls.
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A stronghold built by Vauban on a rocky plateau, UNESCO-listed, overlooking the confluence of the Guil and the Durance.
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A hilltop village in an amphitheatre at the foot of Mont Ventoux, a spa town renowned since antiquity.
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A troglodyte village nestled in a meander of the Cèze, with houses carved into the limestone rock.
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An Auvergne village of golden stone dominated by its medieval keep, on the Chaîne des Puys.
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A 13th-century Gascon bastide with an arcaded square, close to the Gallo-Roman site of Séviac.
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A village with a Renaissance château overlooking the Indrois valley, one of the most charming in the Touraine.
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A village on the banks of the Loire, dominated by its 15th-century château immortalised by Alexandre Dumas in La Dame de Monsoreau.
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A village of bargemen and oyster farmers on the banks of the Seudre, with flower-decked streets and white houses with colourful shutters.
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A village with 16th-century market halls and a former Augustinian convent, birthplace of the famous Mortemart family.
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A village clinging to a spectacular gorge, renowned for its traditional faience and its star suspended between two cliffs.
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A hilltop Luberon village made famous by writer Peter Mayle, between stone streets and vineyards.
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An Occitan village stretched along a ridge, dominated by a royal fortress offering sublime views over the Aveyron valley.
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A 13th-century fortified bastide with nearly intact Renaissance ramparts, on the banks of the Gave d'Oloron, renowned for salmon fishing.
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A village with half-timbered houses enclosed in a meander of the Serein, one of the most picturesque in Burgundy.
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A medieval golden-stone village ranked among the most beautiful villages in France, with its keep and flower-decked streets.
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A hilltop village surrounded by the Jaur river, with its medieval Devil's Bridge and former keep converted into a bell tower.
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A fortified village of the Thiérache, with a pink-brick fortress church surrounded by moats.
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A hilltop village overlooking the Lot valley, crowned by its Notre-Dame-de-Peyragude basilica visible for miles.
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A Franche-Comté village overlooking the Ognon, with Renaissance houses and the remains of a medieval château.
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A troglodyte village carved into the cliff overlooking the Tarn, with houses half-buried in the rock.
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A village overlooking the UNESCO-listed calanches, spectacular pink granite cliffs plunging into the Gulf of Porto.
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A village dominated by the fortress of the powerful lords of Polignac, perched on a volcanic outcrop.
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A hilltop village, a former stop on the Camino de Santiago, with granite and slate houses.
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A town fortified by Vauban in the upper Tech valley, at the gateway to the Canigou massif.
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A fortified hilltop village with a panorama over the Lot valley, with remarkable market halls and twin churches.
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A fortified village overlooking the Grésigne forest, encircled by ramparts nearly intact since the Middle Ages.
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An admirably preserved fortified medieval town, famous for its cobbled streets and its renowned galette.
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An Alsatian wine town with colourful half-timbered houses, spared from destruction in both world wars.
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A sacred town clinging to a dizzying cliff, a major site of Marian pilgrimage since the Middle Ages, with its sanctuary and Black Madonna.
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A town of character with granite houses decked in geraniums, voted the French people's favourite village in 2016.
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A fortified town nicknamed ‘little Carcassonne of Lorraine’, encircled by nearly intact medieval ramparts.
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A village built on impressive blazing ochre cliffs, with a trail through the ‘Provençal Colorado’.
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A Périgord village around an imposing fortified Romanesque abbey church, a masterpiece of religious defensive architecture.
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A medieval village built around a Gothic abbey church, former centre of the Hospitaller Order of Saint Anthony.
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A fortified village perched on a rocky spur of the Berry, with cobbled streets and a former Benedictine priory.
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A hilltop village around its Romanesque-Gothic cathedral, a former episcopal city at the foot of the Pyrenees.
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A medieval village clinging to a cliff overlooking the Lot, voted the French people's favourite village in 2012.
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A picturesque village nestled in a meander of the Sarthe, a former haunt of painters in the 19th century.
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A village fortified in a circle around its church with a flamed spire, a stop on the Camino de Santiago.
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A village at the foot of the Hérault gorges, known for its UNESCO-listed Abbey of Gellone.
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A fortified Basque town, a major historic stop on the Camino de Santiago before crossing the Pyrenees.
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A village with a Gothic bridge spanning the Côle, around its Byzantine Romanesque church and its château.
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A Romanesque village on the banks of the Vézère, with its 12th-century church and former priory facing the river.
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A Vosges village nestled in the Sarre Rouge valley, renowned for its basilica with typical onion-domed towers.
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A hilltop village of the Bas-Limousin with golden-sandstone houses, around its Romanesque church with an octagonal bell tower.
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A fishing village on the banks of the Rance, with granite houses and flower-decked lanes, one of the most beautiful in Brittany.
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The highest permanently inhabited municipality in Europe, with wood and stone houses typical of the Queyras, at 2,042 metres.
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A fortified village towering above Menton, one of the highest coastal villages in Europe with a view over the Mediterranean.
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The only village in France set within a former Carthusian monastery, whose cells have become dwellings.
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A medieval village clinging to the cliffs of the Tarn gorges, around its founding former monastery.
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A medieval village on the banks of the Lot, with turreted houses and dovecotes typical of the Rouergue.
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A fortified medieval town nicknamed ‘the Carcassonne of Maine’, which withstood the assaults of William the Conqueror.
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A medieval town built of dark volcanic stone, famous for its eponymous cattle breed and cheese.
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A hilltop village overlooking the Loire, capital of a vineyard world-renowned for its dry, mineral white wines.
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One of the oldest villages in Corsica, perched on a rocky outcrop of the Balagne offering a 360° panorama.
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A village in an amphitheatre clinging to the mountainside in the Roya valley, with stacked houses and a Franciscan monastery.
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A typical Basque village with red-and-white half-timbered houses, nestled between the Rhune and the Spanish border.
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A circular fortified Gascon village, encircled by its former ramparts and moats, at the heart of the Gers countryside.
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A 13th-century royal bastide with a remarkably preserved arcaded square, at the heart of rural Rouergue.
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A Provençal ochre-stone village where painter Max Ernst lived, with flower-decked streets and discreet fountains.
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A fortified village, birthplace of Saint Hugh of Cluny, with its Romanesque collegiate church and former county château.
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A medieval village nestled in a meander of the Auvézère, dominated by the ruins of a château of the Viscounts of Limoges.
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A hilltop village at the foot of the Dentelles de Montmirail, voted one of the most beautiful villages in France as early as 1988.
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A fishing village perched on a cliff overlooking the Gironde estuary, around its isolated Romanesque church.
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A Cantal village dominated by the Château d'Anjony, a medieval fortress with volcanic-stone towers.
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A hilltop 13th-century bastide with a panorama over the Boudouyssou valley, with a typical arcaded square.
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A village nicknamed ‘the village in the sky’ for its exceptional viewpoint over the green Provence.
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The former capital of the viscounty of Turenne, dominated by the remains of its château perched on a limestone outcrop.
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An Auvergne village perched on a volcanic outcrop, where Queen Margot was exiled in the 16th century.
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A hilltop village of the Comtat Venaissin, home to a Merovingian baptistery among the oldest in France.
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A coastal village crossed by France's shortest river, with flower-decked cottages prized by Impressionist painters.
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A town fortified by Vauban at the confluence of two Pyrenean valleys, UNESCO-listed with its intact ramparts.
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A 13th-century royal bastide with remarkable market halls, recently added to the network of most beautiful villages.
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A 13th-century English bastide with a wooden pile-built market hall, a preserved commercial heart of the Périgord agenais.
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A golden-stone village backed against a cliff overlooking the Ardèche, dominated by its 12th-century château.
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A fortified Vendée village overlooking the Mère river, associated with the legend of the fairy Mélusine, with preserved medieval towers.
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A sacred hill crowned by its UNESCO-listed Romanesque basilica, the starting point of the routes to Santiago de Compostela.
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A flower-decked medieval town on the shores of Lake Geneva, with its château and cobbled streets.
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A fortified village dominated by a ruined royal fortress, with two remarkable Romanesque churches.
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A Catalan mountain village with slate houses, nestled in the Castellane valley at the foot of the Canigou.
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