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Rue Royale

Rue Royale is a street in the 1st arrondissement of Lyon, France, running between Place Michel-Servet and Rue de Provence and joining Grande Rue des Feuillants. It is served by Croix-Paquet metro station and contains several closed traboules.

Musée Magnin

Musée Magnin is an art museum in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. It presents the art collection assembled by Maurice Magnin and Jeanne Magnin in their family mansion, Hôtel Lantin.

Museum of Brittany

Museum of Brittany is a regional museum of society and history in Rennes, located at Champs Libres since 2006. Its collections cover Breton heritage from early human traces to the present.

musée Borély

The Musée des Arts décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode, also called musée Borély, is open to the public in Château Borély on Avenue Clot-Bey in Marseille. Its rooms present decorative interiors, faience, and historic artworks.

Bibliothèque municipale de Bordeaux

The Bordeaux Municipal Library is a classified municipal library made up of 11 establishments across the city. It preserves heritage, study, and conservation collections, and offers public reading resources on all media, along with a wide range of services and spaces.

Perrache

Perrache is a public transportation interchange on cours de Verdun in Lyon’s Perrache neighborhood. It includes a metro station, a tramway station, and a bus station, and serves an interchange between routes M6 and M7. It stands next to the Lyon-Perrache train station.

Musée des Explorations du Monde

Located at Place de la Castre on the summit of Suquet hill, the Musée des Explorations du Monde is housed in the ruins of a medieval castle. Classified as a Musée de France, it preserves collections belonging to the city of Cannes.

Musée national des douanes

The Musée national des douanes is a French art and history museum in Bordeaux, inaugurated in 1984. It presents the history and missions of the customs administration from the modern era to the present, while offering exhibitions and a cultural programme linked to national and local events.

Le Consortium

Le Consortium is a contemporary art center in Dijon. Founded in the mid-1970s and moved several times within the city, it is dedicated to producing and exhibiting contemporary works and enriching public heritage.

Opéra de Dijon

Opéra de Dijon is an opera company and arts organization in Dijon, France. It administers the Grand Théâtre de Dijon and the Auditorium de Dijon, and stages operas, ballets, and classical music concerts.

Porte Saint-Pierre

Porte Saint-Pierre is a historic city gate in Nantes, located near the cathedral and the former route toward Paris. It incorporates remains of the city enclosures and rests on Gallo-Roman foundations from the 2nd century.

Café de la Nouvelle Athènes

Café de la Nouvelle Athènes was a Paris café located at Place Pigalle No. 9 in the 9th Arrondissement, open since 1855. In the second half of the 19th century, it was frequented by artists, writers, and politicians.

Town Hall of Arles

The Town Hall of Arles is located on Place de la République, with the Roman obelisk at the square’s center. Completed in 1676, it remains the seat of the municipality and is partly classified as a historic monument.

Textile Arts Museum

The Textile Arts Museum in Lyon is housed at rue de la Charité with the musée des Arts décoratifs. It holds one of the world’s most important fabric and textile collections and the richest of its kind in France.

Gare du Midi

The former Biarritz-Ville railway station in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, was opened in 1911 by the Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi and closed to rail service in 1980. Its passenger building was later transformed into an arts and leisure center.

Synagogue

This synagogue in Bordeaux is the seat of the Sephardic community and one of the largest synagogues in Europe. Built between 1877 and 1882, it succeeded an earlier building destroyed by fire in 1873.

Musée Rude

Musée Rude is a museum in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, located in the former Saint-Étienne church. Founded by the city in 1947, it combines an art museum devoted to sculptor François Rude with an archaeological section on the old castrum of Dijon.

Les Subsistances

Les Subsistances is a cultural centre in Lyon’s 1st arrondissement, housed in a partly classified historic site on the Saône quay. Since 2007, it has included a creative laboratory and the École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon.

Musée Réattu

Musée Réattu in Arles is an art museum housed in a former priory on the Rhône quays. It holds works by Jacques Réattu, Antoine Raspal, Picasso drawings, and collections linked to photography and architecture.

Musée Angladon

Musée Angladon is an art museum in Avignon’s Old Town, housed in the historic Hôtel de Massilian. It displays major 19th- and 20th-century paintings in several ground-floor gallery rooms.

Rue de l'Arbre-Sec

Rue de l'Arbre-Sec is a street in the Terreaux quarter of Lyon’s 1st arrondissement, set in a dense historic area between Place des Terreaux and the Opéra. It is crossed by rue de la République and lined with restaurants and bouchons.

Musée archéologique de Dijon

The Musée archéologique de Dijon is a museum of Burgundian archaeology founded in 1832 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or. It presents material evidence from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, as well as Paleochristian, sacred, and Christian architectural collections.

Musée de la Faïence de Marseille

The Musée de la Faïence de Marseille was located at 157 avenue de Montredon in Marseille, in the bastide known as Château Pastré. It is now permanently closed to allow the transfer of collections to the new museum des Arts décoratifs, de la Faïence et de la Mode.

Hôtel de Bagis

Hôtel de Bagis is a private mansion in Toulouse’s historic center, on rue de la Dalbade. Known as the hotel de piedra, it is noted for its stone facade, an exceptional and unique Renaissance feature in the city.

Museon Arlaten

Museon Arlaten is an ethnographic museum in Arles, located at 29, rue de la République in the former Laval-Castellane mansion. Its collections represent the arts, ethnology, and history of the Arles region.

Musée Baccarat

Musée Baccarat is located in an ancient Parisian mansion on Place des Etats Unis. Its modern interior was designed by Philippe Starck and includes vaulted spaces, a grand staircase, and museum halls with Baccarat exhibits.

Maison du Chamarier

Maison du Chamarier, also known as hôtel d’Estaing, is a house at 37 rue Saint-Jean in Lyon, on the corner with rue de la Bombarde. It is a rare example of a Renaissance civil house.

Hôtel de Ragueneau

Hôtel de Ragueneau is a private mansion in Bordeaux, France, built between 1643 and 1656 by architect Pierre Léglise. It is a Louis XIII-style building with Renaissance and Classicism elements and has been protected as a historical monument since 1964.

Musée Mer Marine

Musée Mer Marine is a museum housed in a building designed by Bordeaux architect Olivier Brochet. It includes multiple exhibition rooms surrounded by gardens and a permanent route on three levels devoted to navigation, marine history, and ocean-related art.

Château de Bois-Briand

Château de Bois-Briand is a château in Nantes, in the Doulon-Bottière district, on the right bank of the Aubinière. Founded in the Middle Ages, it has remained intact and has been enlarged over time, with traces of several historical figures and communities.

Passage Thiaffait

Passage Thiaffait is a passage in the quartier des pentes de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon’s 1st arrondissement. Entered through a portico on rue René Leynaud, it is a traboule ending in a double staircase to rue Burdeau.