Welcome to France!

France offers a wonderful assortment of riches and is still today the top travel destination in the world. It is packed with history, culture and diversions and distractions of every sort. Dining is indeed serious business in France. Food is as cerebral as it is sensual. Even casual brasseries with affordable menus are likely to offer freshest seasonal ingredients in time-tested recipes.

The French claim credit for developing Gothic-style architecture and the cathedrals that stand as legacies of soaring stone. And in fact, since the Middle Ages, creators of everything from palaces to subway stations have drawn some sort of inspiration from designs born in France. The monuments tell the stories of a land that has been shaped by the rise and fall of rulers and empires since ancient times. France is a country that has been the scene and subject of many battles. France entered the new millennium as part of a unified Europe, but it manages to remain and probably always unalterably French.