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'La Douce France' or 'Sweet France', as once sung by local Charles Trenet, is a country of 65 million inhabitants spread across a greatly varying landscape. Situated in western Europe, metropolitan France has a warm climate and an incomparable cultural heritage. Its world famous towns are packed with history, their museums and monuments filling with treasures as the centuries go on. Thirty-five of its historical sites have now been classed as World Heritage Sites by Unesco.

Its capital, Paris, the city of lights, and the region of Île-de-France, contain two hundred museums, several of which being amongst the world's most prestigious, such as the Louvre and its Mona Lisa - the biggest and most visited museum in the world - or the Orsay Museum with its fabulous collection of impressionist art. The town is also loaded with exceptional monuments, such as the Notre Dame cathedral, the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur of Montmartre.

Visit France is the opportunity to discovery all of these unique treasures, such as the Versailles Palace, the Mont Saint-Michel of Normandy, the magnificent castles of la Loire, towns that have borne witness to huge battles (Reims, Péronne, Villers Bretonneux, Caen...), the vineyards of Bourgogne, or even the great cities of the south, Marseille and Nice.

France is a country that will liven your sense thanks to its gastronomic heritage (classed as non material cultural heritage of humanity), as well is its fashionable perfume creators, whose style makes head turns all over the world. France, land of dreams and sheer excellence, is the place to go all out!