Argentoratum
Argentoratum is the ancient name of Strasbourg and the Roman camp associated with the city in Upper Germania. Archaeological remains of its fortifications survive in the cellars of Strasbourg’s city centre.
Zénith de Toulouse
Zénith de Toulouse is a multifunctional concert hall in Toulouse’s TOEC district, completed and inaugurated in 1993. Its seating can be adjusted with mobile curtains, and it reached a capacity of 11,300 after an expansion in 2014.
Piscine Molitor
Piscine Molitor is a Paris swimming pool and hotel complex near the Bois de Boulogne, between Stade Roland-Garros and Parc des Princes. Inaugurated in 1929, it is noted for its Art Deco design and later reconstruction.
Wall of Love
Wall of Love is an artistically designed mural on the eastern facade of an older residential building in Montmartre, Paris. Established in 2000, it is dedicated to love and displays the phrase “Ich liebe Dich” in over 300 variants and 250 languages.
Philharmonie de Paris
Philharmonie de Paris is a French cultural center in Paris, with a concert hall named Pierre Boulez, exhibition spaces, educational workshops, and rehearsal rooms. It is part of the Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris establishment.
Arles Amphitheatre
Arles Amphitheatre, also known as Les arènes d'Arles, is a Roman amphitheatre in Arles built under Emperor Domitian during the Flavian extensions of the city. It is the most important monument of the ancient Roman colony.
Fontaine Bartholdi
Fontaine Bartholdi is a fountain and sculpture at Place des Terreaux in central Lyon, France. Created by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, it was inaugurated in 1892 under the name Char triomphal de la Garonne.
Crazy Horse
Crazy Horse is a cabaret at 12, avenue George-V in the Champs-Élysées district of Paris. Founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin, it is known for shows with an emphasis on absolute aesthetics and a distinctive stage identity.
Musée Carnavalet
Musée Carnavalet in Paris is dedicated to the history of the city. It occupies the Hôtel Carnavalet and the former Hôtel Le Peletier de Saint Fargeau, and displays furnished rooms, historic objects, and paintings of Paris life.
Hôtel Matignon
Hôtel Matignon is a palace and private mansion in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, at 57 Rue de Varenne. It serves as the official residence of the Prime Minister of France, and the name Matignon is used as a metonym for the prime minister’s governmental action.
Basilique Notre-Dame de Bonne Nouvelle
Basilique Notre-Dame de Bonne Nouvelle is a minor Catholic basilica in the city center of Rennes, Brittany. It stands on Place Sainte-Anne, north of the square, and replaces an older church of the same name on the site.
Musée de Cluny
The Musée de Cluny is a national museum in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, in the Quartier Latin. Housed in the hôtel de Cluny, it includes the Cluny thermal baths and holds an important collection of medieval objects and artworks.
Westfield La Part-Dieu
Westfield La Part-Dieu is a shopping center in Lyon’s Part-Dieu district, facing the Part-Dieu train station. It has five levels, more than 305 stores, and entrances on several surrounding streets.
Equestrian Statue of Joan of Arc
The equestrian statue of Joan of Arc by French sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet was inaugurated in 1874 at Place des Pyramides in Paris, France. Commissioned after the defeat in the Franco-German War of 1870, it portrays Joan of Arc on a large draft horse.
Temple
The Temple was an ancient Parisian fortress in the north of the Marais. Built by the Templars from 1240, it later became a prison and was destroyed in 1808.
Belfry of Lille
The Belfry of Lille is the belfry of Lille City Hall, inaugurated in 1932. Standing 104 metres high, it is attached to the city hall and combines Art Deco and Neo-Flemish architecture.
Musée du quai Branly
Musée du quai Branly is a national museum in Paris, Île-de-France, at 37, quai Branly. Its ethnology collections include African, Asian, Oceanian, and American arts, from antiquity to modern times.
Lyon 25
Lyon 25 is a staircase associated with the Palais des congrès de Lyon in Cité Internationale, Lyon. It gained notoriety in 2002 after being used for the video Sorry by Ali Boulala, and later became known through a 2014 attempt by Aaron "Jaws" Homoki.
Stade Charléty
Stade Charléty, also called stade Sébastien-Charléty, is a multi-sport complex in Paris’s 13th arrondissement. It includes a stadium, training field, sports hall, specialized rooms, and tennis and squash courts, and houses major French sports institutions.
Palais Nikaïa
Palais Nikaïa is a performance hall in Nice, in the Alpes-Maritimes, located near the Grenoble road in the Var plain. Built in 2000 and 2001, it is a large multi-purpose venue with adjustable seating.
July Column
The July Column is a victory column erected in Paris’s Place de la Bastille between 1835 and 1840. It commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, known as the Three Glorious Days, and is built over a necropolis containing the bodies of revolutionaries.
Basilica of St. Sernin
The Basilica of St. Sernin is a major Catholic religious building in Toulouse, located in the center of its namesake square. It is one of the largest preserved Romanesque churches in Europe and was built to house the relics of Saint Saturnin.
Musée Marmottan Monet
Musée Marmottan Monet is a fine arts museum in Paris. It presents art objects and paintings from the First Empire, works by Impressionist painters, and the world’s largest collection of Claude Monet.
Opéra Bastille
Opéra Bastille is a modern opera house in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, inaugurated in 1989 as part of François Mitterrand’s Grands Travaux. It is the main facility of the Paris National Opera.
Colonne Louis-XVI
The Colonne Louis-XVI is a 28-metre-high monument in Nantes, France, located at the centre of Place Maréchal-Foch. It stands on a pedestal and is topped with a statue of the king of France, shown as a Roman emperor.
Coulée verte René-Dumont
Coulée verte René-Dumont, formerly called Promenade plantée, is a voie verte and linear park in Paris, France. It follows the route of a former railway line from Place de la Bastille to Porte de Montempoivre.
LUMA Arles
LUMA Arles is an interdisciplinary cultural center in Arles, France, initiated by the Luma Foundation. It combines art, research, architecture, and environmental protection, and offers space for artistic experimentation and collaboration.
Place de la République
Place de la République is a public square in Paris, France, located between the 3rd, 10th, and 11th arrondissements. Measuring 3.4 hectares, it is a major junction, transport hub, and frequent site of public, cultural, and political demonstrations.
Hôtel Lutetia
Hôtel Lutetia is a luxury hotel at 45 boulevard Raspail in Paris’s Notre-Dame-des-Champs district. Built in 1910, it has long been associated with prestigious hotel reception, wartime occupation, and later postwar memory.
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont
Saint-Étienne-du-Mont is a church building on the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève in Paris 5e, near the Lycée Henri-IV and the Panthéon. It replaced a 13th-century building and remained in use as a parish church.
ENSATT
The National School of Arts and Techniques of Theater, or ENSATT, is one of France’s twelve national theatre schools. Founded in Paris in 1941, it later moved to Lyon in 1997 and operates as a public institution under the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Zénith de Dijon
Zénith de Dijon is a concert hall located in the former Parc de la Toison d'Or, near the Toison d'Or shopping center north of Dijon. Opened as the eleventh venue of its name in France, it is one of the largest Zéniths in the country.
Hôtel-Dieu de Paris
Hôtel-Dieu de Paris is a hospital complex on the Île de la Cité in Paris, at the north edge of the parvis Notre-Dame. Founded around 650 by Saint Landry, it is the oldest hospital in Paris.
Passy Cemetery
Passy Cemetery is a Parisian cemetery opened in 1820 near the Champs-Élysées on the Right Bank. Located behind the Trocadéro and in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, it became an aristocratic necropolis of Paris by 1874.
Fontaines de la Concorde
The Fontaines de la Concorde are two monumental fountains in the Place de la Concorde in central Paris. Designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, they were completed in 1840 during the reign of King Louis-Philippe. Each fountain has a commemorative theme linked to French commerce and navigation.
Jetée-Promenade de Nice
Jetée-Promenade de Nice was an old structure built on stilts over the sea in Nice in 1882. Intended for recreation and tourism, it especially aimed to attract English visitors. It was destroyed in 1944.
Place du Capitole
Place du Capitole is a public square in the heart of downtown Toulouse, bordered by the Capitole’s monumental façade. Developed from the 17th century onward, it became the city’s central gathering place and was later reshaped in neoclassical form.
Monastery of the Jacobins
The Monastery of the Jacobins is a secularized convent in central Toulouse, France, between the Capitole and the Garonne. Its brick complex includes the church, cloister, chapter house, refectory, and chapelle Saint-Antonin.
Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet
The Musée d'histoire naturelle - Guimet was a former French natural history museum in Lyon, located at 28 boulevard des Belges near Parc de la Tête-d'Or. It closed and its collections were later transferred to the musée des Confluences.
Parc de la Toison d'or
Parc de la Toison d'or was an amusement park in Dijon, France, adjacent to the La Toison d'or shopping center. It closed in 1993 and became an urban park with playgrounds, rose gardens, and animal enclosures.
Pillar of the Boatmen
The Pillar of the Boatmen is a Gallo-Roman limestone monument from Lutetia, present-day Paris. It features depictions of Roman and Gaulish deities and a dedicatory inscription, and is now located in the Musée national du Moyen Âge.
La Major
Marseille Cathedral, known as La Major, is a Romanesque-Byzantine building in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône. Built between 1852 and 1893, it stands on an esplanade between the Vieux-Port and the new commercial port.
La Pagode
La Pagode is a movie theater at 57 bis rue de Babylone in Paris’s 7th District, on the corner of rue de Babylone and rue Monsieur. It is known for its Japanese-style room and garden and is considered one of the city’s most unusual cinema venues.
Musée Rodin
Musée Rodin is an art museum in Paris, opened in 1919 and dedicated primarily to the works of Auguste Rodin. It is based at the Hôtel Biron and surrounding grounds.
Arènes de Lutèce
Les arènes de Lutèce is a Gallo-Roman amphitheater in Paris. It combines a stage and an arena, and was rediscovered in the 19th century after long obscurity.
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The Muséum national d'histoire naturelle is France’s National Museum of Natural History and a higher education institution linked to Sorbonne University. Its main museum in Paris, within the Jardin des Plantes, includes four galleries.
Tomb of Chateaubriand
The tomb of François-René de Chateaubriand stands on the islet of Grand Bé at Saint-Malo. Chosen to face the sea and storm, it reflects his wish to be buried on a small island and has been a historic monument since 1954.
Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon
Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon is a historic building complex on the peninsula of Lyon, on the west bank of the Rhône in the Bellecour district. Formerly a hospital, it has been converted into a mixed-use site.