Towns & Villages and Regions

France can be discovered in many ways: by car on the motorway, by plane between two cities or through perfectly planned short trips. But few ways of travelling say as much about the country itself as moving slowly between its towns, villages, landscapes and regions. This is where this France Premium section begins.

“Travelling through France” is not a conventional guide with endless lists of sights or interchangeable hotel tips. Instead, it is becoming a curated archive of town guides, atmospheric walks and journalistic travel stories that understand France as a cultural experience. It is about places with history, small cafes in forgotten streets, morning markets, old railway lines through Provence, fishing villages on the Breton coast and elegant boulevards that suddenly open into quiet courtyards.

Many of these texts are based on the extensive city-guide archive of Nachrichten.fr and are fully re-edited, expanded and updated for France Premium. They are not dry guidebook entries, but stories for discovering, strolling and understanding. Each walk links concrete places with historical background, social observation and the atmosphere that makes France so fascinating for so many readers.

The focus is deliberately not only on Paris. Towns, villages and regions also have space here: the quiet Massif Central, the Côte d’Azur, the Basque Country, Alsace, Brittany and the overlooked landscapes of the French interior. Often it is precisely the small detours beyond the familiar routes that make France most intensely readable.

France Premium invites readers not simply to visit France, but to read, understand and rediscover the country piece by piece: slowly, curiously and with an eye for the details that ordinary guidebooks often miss.