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Top cities in France, page 1, based on popularity among TravBuddy members.
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Paris
#1 most popular location
It's hard to picture a city more iconic than Paris. With an astounding collective love of art, architecture and good old fashioned romance - as well as a heady new rap scene - the city has so…
5,249travelers
1,072reviews
1,231blogs
Nice
#2 most popular location
As the capital of France’s Mediterranean border district - the arresting Cote D’Azur - Nice’s Bay of Angels curves around a shimmering pale-blue watery background, and is home to plenty…
352travelers
96reviews
100blogs
Cannes
#3 most popular location
Quite possibly one of the most luxurious seaside destinations in the whole of France, well-known for the annual film festival that makes its way through and the various luxury accommodations,…
91travelers
19reviews
21blogs
Lyon
#4 most popular location
Second only to Paris in terms of that classic French ambience and big city cultural heftiness, Lyon is often overlooked by visitors to France in favour of the capital, the alpine regions, the…
226travelers
75reviews
82blogs
Marseille
#5 most popular location
One of the oldest cities in France after Paris and Lyon, Marseille sits on the southeastern coast of the country against the Mediterranean Sea. It serves as a commercial port for France, as w…
170travelers
16reviews
35blogs
Toulouse
#6 most popular location
‘La Ville Rose’ named after the colour of the buildings in Toulouse, is the 4th city of France, and picked by the French as ‘most beautiful city’ of their country multiple times.
Y…
164travelers
14reviews
22blogs
Lourdes
#7 most popular location
Lourdes is a town situated on the foothills of the Pyrenees in Southwestern France. This town is famous for an apparition of Mary, mother of Jesus to Bernadette Soubirous here in 1858 and th…
15travelers
2reviews
10blogs
Strasbourg
#8 most popular location
Officially home to the first city center granted status by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, and home to some of Europe’s most influential groups such as the Council of Europe, the Eurocorps…
95travelers
14reviews
23blogs
Bordeaux
#9 most popular location
First things first. Bordeaux is a wine mecca. Devotees make pilgrimages to the Medoc, Pomerol and Saint Emilion. A port city, Bordeaux was an important trade route for many goods other tha…
132travelers
20reviews
26blogs
Antibes
#10 most popular location
Antibes is a small town located in the Cote D'Azur in the south of France. It is mid-way between Nice and Cannes, and is a great day trip from either Cannes or Nice.
This small town, may b…
21travelers
12reviews
10blogs
Avignon
#12 most popular location
Avignon is a city in Southeastern France in the region known as Provence. Avignon is most famous for the Palace de la Papes, or Papal Palace where several Popes and Antipopes lived in the 13…
29travelers
15reviews
22blogs
Lille
#13 most popular location
Lille is a town in the North of France, near Belgium. It is the largest city in the region Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
A lot of students live in Lille and it has a vivid, dynamic nightlife with di…
98travelers
22reviews
24blogs
Carcassonne
#14 most popular location
Carcassonne is separated in two parts (‘La cité’ and ‘ville basse’) by the Aude river.
Especially La cité is more than worth its visit. It is one of the most beautiful places in …
28travelers
2reviews
23blogs
Montpellier
#15 most popular location
Montpellier is the regional capital of the region Languedoc-Roussillon and the fastest growing town in France (at the Moment 391 162 inhabitants).
With its unique mix of students from all …
81travelers
9reviews
26blogs
Versailles
#16 most popular location
World-famous as the one-time home of King Louis XIV, and still one of the most wealthy neighborhoods in the Paris region, Versailles has long stood as the epitome of what France once was, and…
50travelers
20reviews
40blogs
Nantes
#17 most popular location
Nantes is a nice city located on the river La Loire, some 50 km from the Atlantic Ocean.Founded more then 2000 years ago, it is very important in the History of the region of Brittany, having…
73travelers
5reviews
7blogs
Saint-Malo
#18 most popular location
Saint Malo is a very nice port located in the north of Brittany, the western part of France.
Surrended by a wall, the medieval inner city keeps a peculiar atmosphere in its narrow pictures…
6travelers
2reviews
10blogs
Aix-en-Provence
#19 most popular location
Aix-en-Provence is a city in the south of France, in the region Bouches-du-Rhone, 20 km north of Marseille. The city has about 145.000 inhabitants and over 20% of them are students. Aix-en-pr…
38travelers
7reviews
11blogs
Biarritz
#20 most popular location
Biarritz is a bustling little beach community on the Bay of Biscay on the Atlantic coast in Southwest France. It is also in the somewhat volatile region of France and Spain known as Pays Basq…
24travelers
3blogs
Tours
#21 most popular location
Tours, one of the major cities in the Centre province of France, is called "Le Jardin de la France" (The garden of France). There are several parks located within the city, as well as a cedar…
21travelers
9reviews
16blogs
Arles
#22 most popular location
Arles is rich in history; the location of some of Van Gogh's greatest inspirations and the site of some of the greatest examples of Roman architecture.
Today you can visit the great aren…
7travelers
9reviews
9blogs
Reims
#23 most popular location
Reims also called "la cite des sacres" ( 180 000 hab ) in the heart of Champagne area. 130km of Paris ( 30min with TGV-high speed train )
Known for his famous cathedral who crown every frenc…
23travelers
9reviews
12blogs
Porto-Vecchio
#24 most popular location
Very small, not too touristy place, which feels like a small pirat place with an upper village and a nice small porto. Not many nice beaches in the Golf of Porto Veccio, but north and south o…
2travelers
1reviews
Nimes
#25 most popular location
a city in southern France. Nîmes has a rich history, dating back to the Roman Empire, and it is a popular tourist destination. It as many monument and ancient buidlings dating back from 250…
13travelers
8reviews
7blogs
Rouen
#26 most popular location
Rouen is located in Normandy, on the North Western part of France.
The cathedral of Rouen is arguably one of the most beautiful cathedrals in France, and subject of many of Monet's most …
23travelers
16reviews
7blogs
Annecy
#28 most popular location
The capital of the Departement de Haute-Savoie, Annecy, is a small medieval city located at the foot of the Alps along the shores of a lake with the same name. It is about 40km away from Gene…
29travelers
3reviews
6blogs
Dijon
#29 most popular location
Dijon is the historical capital of the Burgundy province of France. It is fairly a small town of about 250,000 people, great for those moments when you feel like leaving the big cities and st…
22travelers
4reviews
9blogs
Les Deux Alpes
#30 most popular location
Les Deux Alpes is a ski resort in the French Alps. It offers approximately 220km of pisted runs and 2300m of vertical drop. The town is located at 1650m and ski-lifts go up to 3600m . It is …
7travelers
8reviews
4blogs
Perpignan
#31 most popular location
Perpignan, is a small town / city in France near the border with Spain. It has a medieval quality about it (in the old part of the city). During the end of August and beginning of September, …
12travelers
2reviews
6blogs
Rennes
#32 most popular location
Rennes is the captital of Bretagne (Brittany) in France. It's a university city, so there are many students studying in this city.
Although it's the tenth largest city in France, many people…
37travelers
4reviews
5blogs
Calais
#33 most popular location
Calais is a town in northern France. It has a population of over 125,000.
Calais overlooks the Strait of Dover, the narrowest point in the English Channel, which is only 34 km (21 miles) w…
9travelers
4reviews
23blogs
Courchevel
#34 most popular location
Courchevel is a beautiful ski area located in the French Alps in France. It forms part of Les Trois Vallees (the three valleys), the other two main ski valleys being Meribel and Val Thorens a…
4travelers
1reviews
Grenoble
#35 most popular location
Grenoble is a student city; they have about 5 to 6 universities there. Therefore, you can see many young faces and they can be foreign to Grenoble. This place is better known where it started…
53travelers
3reviews
10blogs
Caen
#36 most popular location
Caen is the second largest city in Normandy (North west of France). It is loaded with European history, in particular with its historical buildings, as William the Conqueror had made it his h…
18travelers
2reviews
10blogs
Honfleur
#38 most popular location
Honfleur is a charming port town on the Western coast of France. The houses are picturesque, and the harbor is historic--a base for the French from which to protect their cities from the Eng…
5travelers
1reviews
1blogs
Colmar
#47 most popular location
Colmar is situated 64 km south-southwest of Strasbourg, on the Lauch River. It is connected to the Rhine River by a canal.
With an average annual rainfall level of just 530 mm/m² per year…
9travelers
2reviews
4blogs
Calvi
#48 most popular location
Calvi is a small city of the Haute-Corse departement. It's situated in the region of "Balagne".
The 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment (2e REP) of the French Foreign Legion is based there.
1travelers
3reviews
1blogs
Nancy
#49 most popular location
With no doubts, Nancy is one of the most beautiful cities in France.
Nancy is the capital of the French province of Lorraine, in the north-east of France.
The old centre of Nancy, as the ca…
32travelers
3reviews
6blogs
Menton
#52 most popular location
Menton is beautiful charming small town about an hour train ride from Nice. The old town is very quaint and exceptionally beautiful. The view of the old city rising above the city is quite br…
8travelers
2reviews
2blogs
Bayeux
#53 most popular location
A city steeped in history. It is the site were the famous Bayeux tapestry is kept. Home to the Normans.
Above all else, it is beside some of the Normandy Beach Landing sites from World Wa…
2travelers
3reviews
16blogs
Deauville
#63 most popular location
Deauville:
Beach
Shopping
Casino
Horse races
Only 2 hrs from Paris with the train
Cinema festival
Les planches
1reviews
1blogs
Brest
#66 most popular location
Everyone comes to Brest with a purpose in mind.
At the end of all earth, Brest is the largest city of western Brittany. Yet you cannot go there by mistake. For the last centuries, it has b…
18travelers
1reviews
3blogs
Ajaccio
#67 most popular location
The city of Ajaccio (Aiacciu in Corsican) is located on the west coast of the island Corsica. It is famous for being the place where the Emperor Napoleon was born and has grown up.
Ajaccio i…
6travelers
1reviews
9blogs
Albi
#71 most popular location
Prominent in Albi is the Cathédrale Sainte Cécile, constructed with red bricks. Hence, the nickname "Albi la Rouge". The other major feature of the town is the Toulouse-Lautrec museum, hous…
6travelers
4blogs
Pau
#72 most popular location
Pau is the capital of the Bearn region and the Pyrenees - Atlantiques department of France. The city started as a crossing on the Gave de Pau was a pass to and from the mountains.
There is…
16travelers
2reviews
3blogs
Beziers
#73 most popular location
Beziers is an ancient town in southern France, and is one of the oldest cities in the country. It is located in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, near the university city of Montpellier.
T…
2travelers
5blogs
Orange
#74 most popular location
Orange is located in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. It boasts the highest average temperature of any city in France.
Orange is b…
3travelers
3reviews
5blogs
Normandy
#78 most popular location
Normandy is a province in northern France located along the coast of France, situated south of the English Channel so it is very accessible from Paris.
Normandie offers many different plac…
71travelers
11reviews
9blogs
Bonifacio
#81 most popular location
Bonifacio is one of the most beautiful towns in Corsica, France, and the most southern town in the island. It has around 3.000 inhabitants and a big legacy left by the genoese.
The most re…
2travelers
6reviews
4blogs
Chartres
#84 most popular location
Chartres is a charming city not far from Paris...only an hour on the train and you're there. The main attraction is the beautiful cathedral (which houses a very important relic!), but there …
5travelers
1reviews
5blogs
Grasse
#90 most popular location
Grasse is a town located in sourthern France, in the Cote D'Azur. Grasse is all about Perfume, they have several businesses dedicated to creating and selling perfume. The perfume in Grasse i…
6travelers
2reviews
2blogs
Vannes
#91 most popular location
Vannes, located on the Morbihan coast in southern Britanny, is one of the nicest cities in the region. The medeaval centre has a nice, friendly atmosphere and it's not as overrun by tourists …
8travelers
1reviews
1blogs
Etretat
#93 most popular location
Etretat is best known for its cliffs, including a famous natural arch. Two of the three famous arches seen from the town are the Porte d'Aval, and the Porte d'Amont. The Manneporte is the thi…
2travelers
3reviews
7blogs
Bayonne
#99 most popular location
Bayonne (‘Baiona’ in Basque) means ‘the good river’. And indeed the wide estuary of the River Adour, into which leaks the smaller River Nive, in a sense still defines the town. The pa…
7travelers
2reviews
2blogs
