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Patinoire Charlemagne

Patinoire Charlemagne is an ice rink in Lyon, France, in the Confluence quarter of the 2nd arrondissement. It hosts figure skating, hockey, and curling, and serves as the home venue of the Lyon Hockey Club and the Club des Sports de Glace de Lyon.

Antiquaille Hospital

Antiquaille Hospital is an ancient hospital in Lyon, located on the site of l’Antiquaille. It occupies a former convent of Visitandines and includes parts built in the 18th century. The site is registered as a historical monument.

Palais Rohan

Palais Rohan is a palace in Bordeaux built for Archbishop Ferdinand-Maximilien-Mériadec, prince de Rohan, between 1771 and 1784. It later served as a prefecture, imperial and royal palace, and city hall.

Maison du Crible

Maison du Crible is a historic building at 16 rue du Bœuf in Lyon’s Vieux Lyon (Saint-Jean) district. Also called the Tour Rose, it is noted for its ochre color, staircase tower, and status as a historical monument since 1937.

Hôtel Biron

Hôtel Biron is an 18th-century hôtel particulier on Rue de Varenne in Paris’s VII arrondissement. Built between 1728 and 1731, it stands within three hectares of grounds and has housed the Musée Auguste Rodin since 1919.

Théâtre de Paris

Théâtre de Paris is a theatre building in Paris with a layered site history. The location began with a theatre built in 1730, later became Folie-Richelieu, and was rebuilt through successive 19th-century developments.

Luxembourg Museum

The Luxembourg Museum is an art museum in Paris, located in a wing built perpendicularly to the orangery of the Palais du Luxembourg on rue de Vaugirard. Since 2000, it has been under the supervision of the French Senate.

Palais Rameau

Palais Rameau is a building in Lille designed by architects Auguste Mourcou and Henri Contamine. It features a facade with two bell towers and a circular cast-iron horticultural greenhouse, combining traditional brick and stone with Moorish-style orientalism.

Musée Le Vergeur

Musée Le Vergeur is a museum-hotel in Reims made up of two building sections. Its oldest part dates from the 12th century, and the complex was heavily restored after the First World War.

City of Space

City of Space is a scientific culture center in Toulouse devoted to astronomy and astronautics. It was created through an initiative of the Toulouse city hall with several partners and presents major space-related exhibits and thematic displays.

Institut Lumière

Institut Lumière is an association founded in 1982 in Lyon’s Monplaisir district. Dedicated to the diffusion and conservation of cinematic heritage, it occupies the former Lumière factory site at 25 rue du Premier-Film.

Théâtre du Nord

Théâtre du Nord is a theatre building on Lille’s Grand'Place in France. It is installed in the former guardhouse known as the Grande Garde, whose facade is listed as a historical monument.

Centre nautique Tony-Bertrand

Rhône's Pool, now centre nautique Tony-Bertrand, is a sports venue on quai Claude-Bernard beside the Rhône in Lyon La Guillotière. Designed by Alexandre Audouze-Tabourin and inaugurated in 1965, it was renamed in 2015 to honor Tony Bertrand, the city sports deputy who initiated the project.

Palais de la Légion d'Honneur

The Palais de la Légion d'Honneur is a historic palace on the left bank of the Seine in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Built in the late 18th century, it now houses the Grande chancellerie de la Légion d'honneur and the musée de la Légion d'honneur.

Rue Mercière

Rue Mercière is one of the oldest streets in Lyon, confirmed since the Middle Ages. It was long a main artery of the city and became an important center of trade, printing, and bookselling from the Renaissance onward.

Orange Cube

Orange Cube is a design showroom and office building in the La Confluence quarter of Lyon, France. Completed in 2011, it is known for its bright orange color, hole-riddled cube shape, and the nickname “La Mimolette.”

Villa Gillet

Villa Gillet is a villa in Lyon’s parc de la Cerisaie. Built in 1912 for the Gillet family, it now serves as a house of contemporary writings and a venue for conferences, debates, round tables, and readings.

Musée Cognacq-Jay

Musée Cognacq-Jay is an art museum of the City of Paris, presenting a collection formed by Théodore-Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jaÿ between 1900 and 1925. It focuses on 18th-century France and related decorative arts.

Rennes Opera House

The Rennes Opera House is an Italian-style opera house in downtown Rennes, located at Place de la Mairie. It forms the main eastern side facing the city hall and is listed in the inventory of historic monuments.

Hôtel de Basquiat

Hôtel de Basquiat is an 18th-century hôtel particulier on cours d’Albret in Bordeaux, France. Built between 1778 and 1781 by François Lhote for Joseph de Basquiat de Mugriet, it later served as the official residence of the rector of the académie de Bordeaux.

Palais Lascaris

Palais Lascaris is a former aristocratic residence in the old town of Nice, dating from the first half of the 17th century. It now houses a museum of ancient musical instruments.

Palais de la Préfecture

The Palais de la Préfecture in Vieux-Nice is the seat and residence of the prefect of Alpes-Maritimes. Once a ducal and royal residence, it has been extensively altered and is partly protected as a historic monument.

Le palais Gallien

Le palais Gallien is an ancient Roman amphitheatre in the Gallo-Roman city of Burdigala, now Bordeaux. Built at the beginning of the 2nd century, it could hold about 15,000 spectators and preserves only part of its original structure.

Museum of National Archives

The Museum of National Archives is a state museum of French history in Paris, managed by the National Archives of France. It presents exhibitions drawn from government archives collections and offers a document-based view of French history and society.

Villa Lumière

Villa Lumière is a villa in Lyon, France, near the hangar of Premier-Film. Classified as a historic monument and labeled Maison des Illustres in 2011, it features luxurious decoration with Art Nouveau trends and contains a museum and a documentation center.

Porte Mordelaise

Porte Mordelaise is a châtelet d’entrée and surviving vestige of the ramparts of Rennes, in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany. Mainly dating from the 15th century, it once served as the city’s main entrance and as a passage for processions.

Théâtre de la Ville

Théâtre de la Ville is a Parisian theatre at 2, place du Châtelet. Designed by Gabriel Davioud during Haussmann’s restructuring of Paris, it was rebuilt after destruction by fire and later became a major venue for contemporary dance.

Château Royal de Dijon

The Château Royal de Dijon was an ancient fortress castle located at the current Place Grangier in the city center of Dijon. It had no visible remains and formed part of the city’s fortified history.

Marché de Feltre

Marché de Feltre is an ancient covered market in Nantes city center, inaugurated in 1902. It replaced an older cloth hall designed by Mathurin Crucy, which had also housed the city’s first fine arts museum.

Sanctuary of the Three Gauls

The Sanctuary of the Three Gauls was a Roman architectural ensemble in Lugdunum, now Lyon. It served as the space where federated Gallic nations celebrated the imperial cult, and its location remains discussed through ancient texts and archaeological remains.

Nantes Conservatory

The Nantes Conservatory is a French artistic education institution in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique. Originating from an establishment founded in 1846, it is approved and controlled by the French State and offers music, dramatic art, and choreography.

Château Valrose

Château Valrose is a large historic property in the Valrose district of Nice. It preserves its original dimensions and includes châteaux de Valrose, a ten-hectare park, and university facilities, including the headquarters of université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis.

Muséum de Toulouse

Muséum de Toulouse, officially abbreviated MHNT, is a natural history and ethnology museum in the Jardin des Plantes de Toulouse, in the Busca-Montplaisir district. It houses a collection of more than two and a half million pieces.

Aubette

The Aubette is a long classical building on the north side of Place Kléber in Strasbourg. Built from 1765 to 1778, it first served military purposes before later becoming a leisure complex with rooms such as a ciné-dancing and foyer-bar.

Boulevard Saint-Michel

Boulevard Saint-Michel is a Paris boulevard extending from Pont Saint-Michel to Avenue de l’Observatoire. Its northern section is the most lively, with bookstores and clothing shops, and it borders the Jardin du Luxembourg.

Théâtre des Célestins

Théâtre des Célestins is a municipal theatre in Lyon’s Bellecour district. It seats up to 1,030 spectators and is among the few theatres in France with more than 200 years of dramatic art. Its name comes from the former Celestine convent on the site.