Uzès, France
Uzès, in Languedoc, France, is just to the west of Provence, typical of the region and a very charming town. The main street has got some little craft booths set up almost every day, the Old Town is a pedestrian zone, as usual you'll find in these beautiful villages in the south of France.
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There are some up-slopes and down-slopes, but it's a fairly level, small Old Town. The road around it follows the route of the original medieval fortified wall, so this is one of those limestone towns that is really well-preserved and the arcades around the main square create a wonderful ambience, a place to shop a place to eat and drink and just hang out.
This main square, Place aux Herbes, has been the center of Uzès ever since before the Roman days, back when it was a Gallic village. It's right in the heart of the Old Town, a fairly large space with these plane trees all around that were planted to provide shade. Sometimes in the summertime it’ll get hot but we're here in the fall and the weather is perfect. You can see it's shirtsleeve weather for some, the families are out but it's not a very crowded day. We’re here in the middle of the week. If you come on a Saturday there is a large outdoor market that takes place in the town, but on a weekday it's really pretty quiet, especially where you’re here in November.
And this main square is surrounded by the arcades, these kind of loggia with the cafés, with the shops. Originally in the seventeenth century it was wooden structures around the main square.
Limestone is a great building material in the area so it makes it convenient to construct these classic and immortal buildings. Nice fountain in the middle of the square. Just a place to relax. You want to just drop anchor here for a while and hang out, get a drink. There are nice restaurants around the square as well. And then of course there are the little streets that come into the square that are ideal for shopping and meandering.
Languedoc Roussillon Tourism Workshop
Wine Pleasures participates in a tourism workshop organised by the Languedoc-Roussillon Comité Régional du Tourisme in the enchanting seaside town of Collioure in the south of France. Wine Pleasures is seeking possible venues in France for future editions of the successful annual International Wine Tourism Conference and Workshop.
Wine Pleasures met with Herault Turisme, Aude Pays Cathare, Hôtel La Terrasse au Soleil, Comité du Tourisme des Pyrénées Orientales, Hôtels le Donjon et Mecure Carcassonne, Château de Lastours, Hotels Restaurants Uzès Pt du Gard and Office de Tourisme de Carcassonne.
In the video you can see the dyanmics and participants of the workshop which was held inside the Château Royal de Collioure.
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This beautiful medieval village of 373 inhabitants is among Les plus beaux villages de France (the most beautiful villages in France). It is one of the most remarkable places in Catalonia. Castelnou keeps its authenticity thanks to craftsmen settled within the village (painters, potters, blacksmiths,...) and the 10th-century castle. It was an important capital city for three centuries in the Middle-Ages.
10 Top Tourist Attractions in France - Travel Video
Famous for its wines and cheeses, France is the world’s most popular tourist destination receiving 82 million foreign tourists annual. Visitors are attracted by historic cities, a beautiful countryside, the castles of the Loire Valley, and Brittany and Normandy. In addition, France offers an agreeable climate, some excellent beaches on the French Riviera, the Atlantic coast and the island of Corsica, wide possibilities for winter sports, most notably in the Alps and the Pyrenees, and a rich culture with food and wines that are among the most celebrated in the world. Here’s a look at the top tourist attractions in France.
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Hidden Camera: Forcalquier (France) Market
Forcalquier, France (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence département) has the largest market in the entire region. It took me nearly three hours to see just part of it, and it runs every Monday morning. Forcalquier is known as the city of four queens and has ancient and Medieval vestiges. It's a charming place with most conveniences and the beauty of a mountainous, Mediterranean area of Southeastern France including lots of blue skies and hot/warm weather. This was in September, past high tourist season, but the Summer harvests were being undertaken and the fare was superb.
I always hesitate to video in markets as people really don't want the invasion of privacy, usually. I put the camera low and went looking for cheese and meat. I ended up buying a Banon, a goat cheese wrapped in leaves, and two of the best beef entrecôtes I'd ever had (prime rib in the USA), among many other things. Forcalquier seemed to have at least a small market by their Hôtel de Ville (city hall) daily, each with a different theme or specialty, such as all organic, etc.
In this market, I saw artisanal works, artwork, tools, clothing, supplies, every type of food and drink, and THOUSANDS of people. Among the best of my purchases were some grapes called framboisé which were incredibly sweet and delicate. Take at least one sturdy bag or rucksack with you to the market, and a protected cooler bag you can fold and reuse is also a good idea for highly perishable items.
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Le charme est un euphémisme pour qualifier Uzès, labellisée Ville d'Art. Son duché, vaste ensemble commencé au XIè s., sa tour Fenestrelle du XIIè s. aux airs de campanile lombard et sa cathédrale Saint-Théodorit dotée d'un orgue d'exception sont quelques uns des 48 joyaux classés à ne pas manquer.
Arles, Provence in the south of France
We are taking you to the beautiful city of Arles, in Provence in the south of France. Arles is most famous for its Roman amphitheater, still intact, and its connections with Van Gogh, who spent one of his final years here painting 200 canvases. Its real appeal, however, is found in the lovely pedestrian promenades, the historic landmarks, museums and tranquil plazas, all of which make Arles one of the most charming places in Europe.
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There's a lot of these narrow streets in Arles, there is a small pedestrian zone, there's the various squares and the cafés around it, of course, and historic sites. And we will be showing you those highlights coming up right now as we take a walk through Arles.
The old town of Arles is comfortably small. It's about a square mile. So it's very easy to see the whole thing on foot. You might consider spending a couple of days here.
Or you could visit as a daytrip for example from Avignon which is just 20 miles away and only takes 20 minutes by train to get here. In this program we will show you how you can do everything in one day but certainly if you want to spend more time you decide for yourself. To help you plan your visit we will also present more detailed suggestions about how you could spend a night or two here and still find lots to do.
This is part of a series we’re presenting showing how Avignon makes a very good home base for visiting out to other destinations like Pont du Gard, and St Remy and Nimes along with Aix and Marseille, and especially Arles, the wonderful city of van Gogh and the ancient Romans, with narrow pedestrian lanes weaving throughout the center
The main attractions are the arena, the pedestrian zone and a historic museum. We will show you a good walking route on the map. Of course you can walk anywhere you want, it’s small enough, but this route will take you right through the center and then back to the train station, a route just over 2 miles, or about 3 kilometers, you can do in several hours. But you should also see the history museum while you're here, with its fine collection from the ancient Roman days, an easy detour. So let's assume you're coming in from Avignon on a day trip and you want to see everything.
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Les Baux-de-Provence, France
Les Baux-de-Provence in the south of France is a remarkable sight, a unique stone village dramatically perched 750 feet high on a rocky plateau with a history dating to the Middle Ages, and a prehistory going back probably about 8,000 years. Les Baux was once a powerful medieval castle that controlled vast territories, including 79 other villages throughout Provence, but now it's a tiny quaint ruin.
Charming as could be, this cozy hill-top hamlet is a major tourist attraction with 1.5 million annual visitors, making it the second most-popular site in the region after the Pope's Palace in Avignon. This tells you that it is very worthwhile, but it can get uncomfortably crowded unless you take preventive action, like visiting in the off-season, or arriving early or late in the day.
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It's only about 3000 feet long and about 700 feet wide and that's it.”
The medieval village was built up from the 10th century and by the peak of occupation during the late 14th century nearly 3,000 people lived in this small space, although the permanent population nowadays living inside the old town is only 20 people.
The plateau was naturally easy to defend due to vertical cliffs all around, and was further reinforced with stone walls and castle as protection from invasion by Franks, Catalans, Saracens and marauding bandits of the chaotic Middle Ages. However the castle was finally attacked and destroyed in the 1600s by Cardinal Richelieu and his large well-armed French army, leaving us with dramatic ruins of the castle, which they call the Château. And it retains a wild setting among rugged rocky hills.
You will not get lost because there is only one main pedestrian lane about 300 meters long with a few short side alleys leading to viewpoints. You really don’t need much of a guidebook to help get through this smallest of Provencal destinations – just follow your nose and wander about. But we do have some suggestions.
There are two parts to visit in Les Baux -- the free village, with its pedestrian lanes, shops, restaurants and old buildings, and the paid attraction, the ruins of that castle on the plateau where you can see some of the old buildings and fortifications.
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Pont du Gard, France
The Roman aqueduct of Pont du Gard is one of the greatest sights in all of ancient history. It's an incredibly impressive structure. In fact, it is the tallest ancient bridge and the second-highest structure the Romans ever built, after the Coliseum in Rome, which is just 6 feet higher.
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Not only is this a work of great engineering, but it has come down to us as one of the most important works of art of the ancient world, a work of great architecture recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was built to carry water from the countryside into the city of Nîmes, which was a big Roman center back in those days, and it continued carrying water for five hundred years.
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St-Paul de Vence in the south of France
St-Paul de Vence in the South of France is one of the best preserved and prettiest medieval villages in all of Europe. We're going to take you on a walk straight through the middle of St-Paul on the main pedestrian lane from one end of town to the other and later working to show you all the little side streets. Located on the Cote d'Azur along the French Riviera in Provence, this village is one of the prettiest in Europe. The cobblestone lanes here are among the finest that you will ever see.
When you reach the far end of the main lane you exit through another gateway arch and then there's a staircase that leads your right up onto the wall with a lovely viewing platform where you can see across the distant landscape.
The walks round the walls are in part wider, and the small gardens of the houses sloping down to them, with the dark foliage and golden fruit of their orange groves, form a beautiful foreground to the lovely views that are visible off in the distance in every direction.
Saint-Paul de Vence's town wall dates from the 16th century as we see it today and it hugs the contours of the rocky spur on which the village stands, forming a 1 km perimeter that has undergone only slight modifications since the 16th century.
We have created many more movies about this area, the Côte d'Azur, the French Riviera that you can find on our channel, so have a look. You'll see programs about Cannes and Monaco, Monte Carlo, St-Paul, Vence, Villefrance, all around through the region including Antibes, and we really enjoy using Nice as our home base to explore this entire region.