This medieval village in the Lot valley, up on a cliff above the river, looks like something straight out of a novel. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie is a charming place of narrow streets, corbelled houses and ...

Perché on the heights of Pontoise, the Five Senses Garden offers a unique sensory experience amidst the historic ruins of an ...

With their stone ramparts, half-timbered houses and arcaded squares, some medieval French villages seem to have been holding ...

Imagine a town where every uneven cobblestone underfoot seems to murmur tales of knights, merchants, and traveling bards. Dinan perches above the Rance River in Brittany, not grand like a city but ...

The Endesumar Medieval Festival is returning on September 12 and 13, 2026, at Château de Rangiport in Gargenville, Yvelines.

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Archaeologists excavated a 400-year-old site in Montreuil-sur-Mer and uncovered pottery artifacts still sitting in the oven, photos show. Photo from F. Auduit and Inrap A collection of pots sat in a ...

On a terrace overlooking a lake in southern France, a medieval community buried their dead. The deceased were placed in deep pits, their bodies arranged just so. Centuries passed and the cemetery was ...