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Natural wonders · Bouches-du-Rhône
Les calanques de Cassis
The Calanques massif, at the gates of Marseille, offers a postcard landscape.
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Far from the big crowded beaches, France hides coves reachable only on foot or by boat, spectacular cliffs and peninsulas where nature has kept the upper hand: the water is often clearer, the crowds rarer.
Twelve wild shores, from the Mediterranean calanques to the Norman cliffs, for a coastline far from the beaten track.
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Natural wonders · Somme
Les Falaises d'Ault-Onival
The chalk cliffs of Upper Normandy continue beyond the mouth of the Bresle at Mers-les-Bains as far as Ault and Onival.
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Natural wonders · Pyrénées-Atlantiques
La Corniche Basque
The Basque Corniche is a unique natural site. It is 6 km long on the part belonging to Urrugne.
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Natural wonders · Finistère
Pointe de Dinan
The Pointe de Dinan, also called the Château de Dinan (with its drawbridge!), is a site not well known to tourists, and yet, what beauty!
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Natural wonders · Manche
Les moines et l'Elèphant
52 islets, 365 rocks at low tide (one for every day!), Chausey is an archipelago unique in France, once well known for its granite that built Saint-Malo, Fécamp, Paris and London!
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Natural wonders · Calvados
Les Falaises des Vaches Noires
The Vaches Noires in Normandy (Calvados, France) are cliffs made mainly of clays and glauconitic chalk.
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Natural wonders · Landes
Le Courant d'Huchet
The immense beaches of the Aquitaine coast are all bordered by dunes. Behind these dunes a string of lakes has formed.
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Natural wonders · Var
La Presqu'île de Giens
A geological curiosity unique in the world, the Giens peninsula is linked to the mainland by 2 arms of sand 5 km long, called tombolos.
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Beaches · Pyrénées-Orientales
L'anse de Paulilles, un bijou de la Côte Catalane
Located in the commune of Port-Vendres towards Banyuls-sur-Mer, encircled by the famous Banyuls-Collioure vineyard, the Anse de Paulilles is one of the most beautiful on the Catalan rocky coast.
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Beaches · Corse-du-Sud
Anse de Rondinara
Pale sand, very pure water, unspoilt environment and perfect geometry... Rondinara is one of the most exotic bays on the island.
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Natural wonders · Var
île de Port-Cros
Port-Cros is undoubtedly the wildest of the 3 islands of the Golden Isles archipelago, but also the most mountainous.
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Natural wonders · Côtes-d'Armor
Rochers de Trébeurden
Trébeurden's wild coast, which unfolds on either side of these beaches, offers walks where the customs officers' path will make you stop on the Pointe du Château peninsula, where several rocks seem to turn into sculpted animals.
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