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🇫🇷France

8 cities · 40 neighborhoods

France's city neighborhoods reward slow walking and longer meals. From Parisian arrondissements to the old quarters of Lyon, Bordeaux and Marseille, French urban life remains built around the café, the boulangerie and the market square.

Bordeaux

Bordeaux's historic quarter

Bordeaux's old wine merchants' district

Bordeaux's multicultural quarter

Bordeaux's alternative eco quarter

Bassins à flot

Bordeaux's new waterfront

Lille

Lille's brick-and-cobble old town

Lille's working-class market quarter

Lille's student district

Saint-Maurice Pellevoisin

Lille's residential east

Lille's central commercial heart

Lyon

Lyon's UNESCO Renaissance old town

Lyon's silk-weaver hill

Lyon between the rivers

Lyon's new architectural district

Lyon's modern business heart

Marseille

Marseille's oldest quarter

Street art and creative nights

Marseille's reborn waterfront

The ancient harbor, still working

Marseille's most multicultural market

Nice

Nice's Provençal old town

Nice's working harbor

Nice's elegant hill neighborhood

Nice's residential art nouveau

Nice's market-day district

Paris

Medieval Paris, perfectly preserved

Canal Saint-Martin

Where Paris comes to picnic

Bohemian Paris on the hill

Paris at its most cosmopolitan

Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Intellectual Paris in cashmere and linen

Strasbourg

UNESCO Strasbourg old town

Strasbourg's half-timbered canals

Strasbourg's alternative student quarter

Strasbourg's German imperial new town

Strasbourg's leafy diplomatic district

Toulouse

Toulouse's pink-brick civic centre

Toulouse's stylish old quarter

Toulouse's Garonne left bank

Toulouse's bohemian Sunday market

Toulouse's elegant cathedral district