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There are towns that history passes through like a cavalcade, sabre in hand; others that destiny caresses like the pages of a novel. Pau is one of them, and you have to imagine Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, future King of Sweden,...
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Every summer in August, for one weekend, the town of Chinon plunges back into its medieval past. Troubadours, knights and craftsmen bring to life a Middle Ages that is both documented and dreamt of. More than just a form of entertainment, the Médiévales are a...
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A holy city, a secular city, the capital of an empire and then of a faith, Rome cannot be visited: it has to be read and deciphered. You walk through it as if you were turning the pages of a historical novel, sometimes written in the ink of Seneca, sometimes...
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There are places that you don't pass through. You stay, you linger, you return. Salies-de-Béarn, hemmed in by the meandering Saleys river, is one of them. This small town in the Béarn region, whose name seems to ooze salt,...
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Orthez, the former capital of Béarn, situated between Pau and Bayonne, doesn't immediately reveal itself to the hurried visitor. Follow in the footsteps of its past for a summer "robinsonnade" with concerts at the Château Moncade. The Pont Vieux, which spans...
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