Instead of the Cinque Terre: Collioure, the Village of Light and Colour
Collioure is the Mediterranean borgo that Matisse and Derain painted for its extraordinary light: coloured houses, anchovies and sea without the Cinque Terre crush.
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Collioure is the Mediterranean borgo that Matisse and Derain painted for its extraordinary light: coloured houses, anchovies and sea without the Cinque Terre crush.
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The Croix-Rousse hill in Lyon is the bohemian quarter Montmartre used to be: secret passageways, artists' studios and genuinely local street life.
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Collonges-la-Rouge is built entirely in red sandstone — a blazing borgo set against the green countryside of the Corrèze.
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Cordes-sur-Ciel is a Gothic bastide that seems to float above the Tarn mists: a perfect alternative to Rocamadour, steeped in medieval craft.
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Eus, perched beneath the Canigou in the Eastern Pyrenees, is France's sunniest municipality: golden stone, Catalan silence and 300 days of sun a year.
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Salers is a lava-stone borgo deep in the Auvergne volcanoes: medieval towers, mountain-pasture cheese and an ancient silence.
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Pérouges is a walled medieval borgo thirty minutes from Lyon: polished cobblestones, watchtowers and the celebrated butter galette.
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Roussillon blazes red and orange among the Luberon lavender fields: ochre quarries, incandescent façades and a real alternative to Gordes.
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Lagrasse is a medieval borgo in the Corbières with a Carolingian abbey, a humpback bridge and bold red wines waiting to be discovered.
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Moustiers-Sainte-Marie is nestled between two cliffs with a star hanging in the void: fine ceramics, the Verdon and Provençal lavender.
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Dinan is a living medieval Breton city with half-timbered houses, walkable ramparts and a river port on the Rance — Brittany at its most authentic.
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Locronan is a granite Breton borgo frozen at the Renaissance: a perfect square, sailcloth weavers and a ready-made film set.
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