Historically a place where monarchs and aristocrats would escape the winter in favour of warm Mediterranean climes, this southern French city is at its best in the off season.

France had fallen to the Nazis in 1940, but an internal resistance movement had struggled to sabotage occupying forces and ...

A whirlwind tour of Europe’s most exclusive retreats, where luxury is relentless, sophistication is staged, and the scenery ...

The train journey east from Marseille towards the Italian border is superb. The route has a grand, almost cinematic appeal when seen from the comfort of a TGV, but suddenly becomes more intimate when ...

Some of the honorees on the 2024 Bright Ideas in Travel list are making a point of thinking big: managing a worldwide wildlife census, creating an open-source map with hundreds of thousands of users, ...

Dine in rustic restaurants, ride a funicular for panoramic views and hunt for treasures at a sprawling flea market in France’s third-largest city.

This year, 50 French institutions are counted among the top universities in the world. The 2025 ranking includes 10 institutions in Paris – the most represented city in France. Universities in Paris ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The English-language translators of an Italian collection of short stories and a French book of poetry have won awards from the American Literary Translators Association.