WINES OF FRANCE

WINES OF FRANCE

France is undisputedly the greatest wine-producing country in the world.
If you are traveling it always pays to ask for a local wine in restaurants.Not only will you earn the proprietor's approval,but it will normally be served with great pride,and you will be told all about it.

most famous wines

most famous wines

The wines shown here are just a selection from the vast variety-over 700-to be found in France.
BEAUJOLAIS-Made from the Gamay grape.
CHABLIS--Made from the Chardonnay grape.
CHAMPAGNE-The world's most famous wine which must,by law,only come from the vineyards of the Champagne district around Reims.Vintage champagnes can cost an amazing amount of money,but non-vintage varieties can still be found at reasonable prices.
CHATEAU MOUTON-ROTHSCHILD-One of the most famous wines in the world which come from the village of Pauillac in the Medoc.
TAVEL-The best rose in France,made from the Grenache grape in vineyards in the Rhone valley.
VOLNAY-A light AC red from Burgundy that can be drunk very young.

most famous wines

most famous wines

most famous wines

most famous wines

THE FONTAINEBLEAU CASTLE

The Fontainebleau Castle

The Fontainebleau Castle

THE FONTAINEBLEAU CASTLE

The Fontainebleau Castle is one of the important castles in France, just 60 kilometers south of Paris. The first brick was layed around the 12th century, and constructions lasted till around the 19th.
The Château de Fontainebleau was the home to many, notably François, Marie Antoinette, and Napoleon.Fontainebleau is one of the most elegant castles in France, beautifully decorated and furnished with wood pannelling, gilded carvings, frescoes, tapestries and paintings.

The Fontainebleau Castle

The Fontainebleau Castle

Fontainebleau also has the only remaining furnished Throne Room in France (built for Emperor Napoleon).
Wind up you visit with a walk in the magnificent gardens. The park traces the evolution of French gardens throughout three centuries... A regal tour indeed!

The Fontainebleau Castle

The Fontainebleau Castle

France Weather

France Weather


France offers a temperate climate which varies with each region like the southern Atlantic region a pleasant day time temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit which stays for February to November. The temperature goes higher than 95 degrees in the months of July and august. France weather offers very nice environment for all the recreational outdoor activities. A maritime climate is enjoyed by the north and the northwest part of France with the graciousness of the long coastline which is blessed with mild winters and warm summers, where the rainfall is more frequent around 180 days a year.

The interior part of the country is marked with hotter summers and more scrupulous winter with rainfalls on just few days of the year. The southwestern part of France is covered with a placid climate, but the heated summers are bragged with only some of the periodic rain storms. The mid part of France with the eastern part enjoys the colder winters than the north part but also they tend to have warmer summers. There are infrequent thunderstorms found in hot summers at the Mediterranean coast of France which possess mild but often sunny winters.

France Weather


As the rise in altitude increases the temperature, the mountainous area affects the France weather which is marked with the cold winters which are wet with lots of snow. The summers are characterized as mild, sunny and changeable. Precipitation tends to increase with the increase in distance from the ground which occurs in the form of snow with the coming up of winters. Many of the villages which are situated in the higher valleys every year enjoy more than 50 days of snow.

France Weather

France travel guide

France travel guide


The country of contrasts that offers a multitude of landscapes, France is one of the most liked tourist destinations that offer the holidays to suit all tastes as well as budgets. It is the ultimate traveler’s paradise all over the world. Surrounded by the dazzling and assorted landscapes, with a rich history, lively culture and its mouth watering food and wine, makes France the best place to visit that can satisfy all the senses. France is the country of music, art, fashion, food and cinema. The country is supported by varied climate in every region.

People like visiting France for leisure trips, business visits, adventure holidays and romantic gateways. The beauty of France is enhanced by the green countryside that is spread all across. There is a wide range of attention grabbing places that are worth a watch. The most visited and famous attractions in France are the breath taking Atlantic beaches offering an amazing scenic beauty, Paris, various castles and the Alps. For the tourists who visit France, accommodation is not a problem as there are numerous hotels that are offering various amenities to the travelers. One of the most visited cities in the world, Paris is also known as the city of lights. The amazing and loving city is a perfect honeymoon destination for the couples. France is one of the traveler’s ecstasies on the earth. Being the most popular holiday destination in Europe that is visited by a large number of people, there are options for luxury accommodations, low priced hotels and holiday villas.

France travel guide


There are varied options for the travelers who visit France for spending their vacations. It includes trip for the people who wish to go for wine tasting, boat ride on a barge tour to see France, hiking through the Alps or exploring the shops in Paris.

France travel guide

France- Backpacked

France- Backpacked


France is one of the most liked tourist destinations and an ideal place for spending some leisure time in Europe. Backpacking holiday is an amazing way of discovering the rich culture that France has to offer to the tourists. Packed with innate beauty along with the numerous sights that is worth seeing, monuments, museums and wine yards, France has something to offer to every traveler. The backpacking vacation can be a week long or it can also stretch to a month.

To visit France backpacked, spring is considered as the best time for the travelers to take a break. You can also purchase a train pass that makes exploring France easier. There are train passes available for varied amount of days; it can be a two days to eight days of unlimited and unrestricted travel to the various destinations within France. Though France has a lot to offer, you can start your backpacked vacation with the city of lights, Paris that has some of the eminent monuments that include Louvre that is the home to Mona Lisa. Taking a ride up the Eiffel tower, you can have an unhindered and clear view of the city.

France- Backpacked


Traveling to the Loire valley is also a great option for the wine lovers. They can have the samples of some of the finest wines that are available in the region. Bordeaux is an addition to the wine regions in France where the wine lover scan visit and know some facts about wine. There are also beaches where you can sunbathe and relax.

It is always suggested that you must not carry excess of luggage except for the necessities such as the bed sheets.

France- Backpacked

France holidays

France holidays


It doesn’t matter how you want to enjoy the France holidays but the country has something for everyone. If the adventure of visiting new and different places seems exiting to you or you just want to laze around exploring different things or you are the lover of skiing on the snow caped mountains then you will definitely enjoy your holidays in France. France is marked with the most beautiful city of Paris. There is so much to find in Paris that your holidays will start from there and even come to an end but still your desire to find out more will stay.

It marks the history as the most romantic city of the world. Many of the striking sites that you will visit during the tour will be Eiffel tower, Notre dame, the Louvre, the Arc de Triomphe and the Sacre Coeur. You can take the foretaste of the culture of France by visiting the museums. A trip around the metro area can give you an opportunity to shop in the most unique shops of France.

France holidays


France holidays will include the trip to Rhome-Alpes. Known as the skier’s heaven French Alps can offer you more excitement than you could even think about. You can enjoy the experience of skiing in Val d’Isère. Also you can visit the 6 natural parks, 28 nature reserves and take the pleasure of the lake side scenery. All the wine lovers have an opportunity of enjoyment with the taste of wine. The trip along the Beaujolais route will make you explore some of the best French wines that are grown in the magnificent vineyards of that area.

France holidays

Prides of Paris

Luxembourg gardens Paris


Eiffel Tower, which was "temporarily" set in 1889, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the Victory Arch, Montmartre with the basilica Sacra Cour, Louvre, Orsay Museum, Place des Vosges, Picasso Museum, Pompidou, Pere Lachaise cemetery, Champs Elise, Luxembourg gardens and a modern skyscraper, and a quarter of La Défense is only a few prides of Paris, the view would be the most beautiful in spring and early autumn.

Sacre Coeur Paris


A Paris would not be Paris without its cafes, shops, restaurant, small markets, and Sena.
Today's Paris was set Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann, who is the middle of the 19th century gets confidence in the renewal of the city at Sena

Cathedral of Notre Dame Paris

Luxury Wine and Spirits-Cognac

romantic combination of Cognac


Cognac is the alcoholic drink, which is obtained by double distillation of wines produced in the same area in France. Cognac production began in the 17th century, only the name has appeared in 1783.
For the production of 1 l of cognac we need 9 liters of wine. Characteristic aroma of cognac is achieved by aging in oak barrels. Less than five years old cognac is a bright yellow and has a taste reminiscent of vanilla, cognac, aged between five and ten years, has darker color and stronger flavor. Only after 30 years of age came to a small drop in the proportion of alcohol, but after 50 years to achieve the desired 40% alcohol, the cognac can be used as a beverage. You can also reduce the alcohol content of distilled water.
Categories of cognac: three stars - aged at the barrel for more than 2 years, VSOP (Very Special Old Pale), VO - aged at the barrel for more than 4 years, and Napoleon, Extra, XO - aged at the barrel for more than 6 years.


Luxury Wine and Spirits-Cognac

Wine Quality

Wine Quality


In France, the wine combine many features of the region (like the cheese): structure and composition of the soil, location and slope of the land, the number of sunny days, precipitation, cold, heat and wind. On wine quality is affected not only the work in the vineyard, but it is extremely important to the cellar. The wine speaks of the man who cultivates it. Wine outlines its character, its cultural and historical heritage, its philosophy and its ethics.
Some of the most famous wine regions of France are: Bordeaux, Burgundy, Beaujolais, Côtes du Rhône and Provence.

Wine Quality

French's Mustard

French's Mustard


Already in the sixties before Christ was in ancient Rome known as the mustard mustum ardens, which in translation meant spicy juice. From this term come the French word moutarde, English mustard and German Mostrich.
Already at the time of Charles the Great, farmers were familiar with the preparation of mustard, which has rapidly spread throughout France. Around the year 1300 has been in Paris ten producers of mustard, in 1650, however, already six hundred.
Burgundy men, who have ruled the province of Dijon, is already in the 14th century guarantee for the quality of mustard in their cities. They declared that for the preparation of mustard must been used only good mustard seeds.
Mustard is the universal spice par excellence. In addition to gives flavor, is particularly suitable as an ingredient for salads, meat and fish.

French's Mustard

French Desserts

French Desserts


Croissant, which in translation means the Crescent, is a popular French pastry, which comes from Hungary. At the end of the 17th century, the Turks surrounded Budapest, to take-over the city, the walls around the excavated trench. This was observed bakers who have returned at dawn from the work. They trigger the alarm, so that the Turks should withdraw.
In a sign of its victory bakers baked cakes in the form of Crescent.
Desserts
One of the most famous French dessert is a cake Saint Honoré. Because of their imaginative and subtle taste it becomes honor, to bear the name of a saint, who is protector of the French bakers and pastries. This French cake is the best way demonstrated its sound and sense of nice taste. Miniature ball of boiled dough, more known as "princess donuts" immersed in the chocolate make this cake channel of visibility and a special attraction.

French Specialty - Cheese

French Specialty - Cheese


France is a country in which manufactured more than 370 different types of cheese. It seems that each type of cheese talk about the region in which they are produced, as the result of a specific climate, flora, fauna and traditional ways of preparation.


Depending on the hardness of cheeses can be divided into: soft, semi-hard and hard, the cheese may have a crust, or is not, you can have blue mold in the center or outside the red. Depending on whether the cheese is young or mature, spicy, macerated, or washed, can be grouped into the following categories: cream cheese, industrial cheese for cooking, soft cheese with white or red mold cheese with noble blue mold cheese made from goat's milk and hard cheese.
It is understood that in a good French meal cheese in any case may not fail.

French Soups

French Soups


Each traditional menu starts with soup. Soup is for a meal what is wonderful saloon for the house. Until the mid-20th century, the soup was for the farmers and the only hot main dish. Prepare it so that the boiler (pot) put a lot of vegetables and other ingredients, which are then several hours long to cook at gently heat. Since the meat and fat can afford only few of them, the piece of bread with the soup spill over.
The French word souper, which means dinner, is the basis for the word soup for western countries: Supp (German), soup (in English).
Some of the most famous French soups are: onion soup (soup à l 'oignon), bean soup (potee dauphinoise), Pumpkin cream soup (soup de courge à la crème) and avignon soup of sweet anise (potage au fenouil a l’Avignon ).

French Soups


French Soups

France-Historical impact

France-Historical impact

Far in 1533, the Catherine di Medici gone on way to France to marry the French king Henrik II. In addition to personal items she took with her culinary assistants, waiters and more of the main cooks.
Catherine was the truth suspicious of the French gastronomic culture house, because it was at the beginning of the 16th century truly catastrophic. Extremely popular were exotic, expensive foods, while the fresh local food less valuable. Aggressive way of preparing food and use a wide variety of spices are destroying the nutritional value and taste of food. With the arrival of the French throne, Catherine has all changed. Catherine, which itself was a major “gurman”, eventually managed to eliminate the shortcomings of the French approach to cuisine, to the simultaneous serving of sweet and sour, savory and salty.
Heavy cups switched elegant glasses of Venetian glass; Catherine has introduced the use of glazed vessels and fork, which the French was not aware of previously.
Have become extremely popular even pasta dishes (especially macaroni), then vegetables such as asparagus and artichokes, and spices (basil, marjoram and sage).


France-Historical impact


France-Historical impact

Facts About France- Paris

Facts About France- Paris

In his heart, Paris not hiding only most expensive boutiques, restaurants and perfumery. Nor is it Paris just Eiffel Tower or jumping from the museum to museum. Although very many things are really worth to see, and although in line for quick look at the Mona Lisa you can spend long hours. Paris is also the film in numerous cinemas or finding interesting books in which one of bookstores.
Paris simply must visit. It appears Eiffel Tower or Champs Elysee in the figures and in the movies, it is quite something else than to experience them in reality. You do not have to be in the Louvre Museum or Rodin Museum, nor is it necessary to see the Holy Chapel and Notre dame cathedral that could be experienced Paris. You can simply seat upriver Sena or walking at parks, visiting the market better or simply walking on the street to street. Paris is always an interesting and dynamic.
A do not forget that in Paris you get anything more than a sigh at the visible and experienced. Paris is an expert on the depletion of your wallet, so on walking around the city, always go with a full wallet.


Facts About France- Paris


Facts About France- Paris

Paris - Accommodation in Paris

Paris - Accommodation in Paris

Accommodation in Paris
The city is already for a century famous as the most romantic in the world. It can not disappoint you. It does not matter whether you spend only weekend in Paris or take a two-week holidays for endless walking near Sena, Paris will be dazzled you in his shelter you and you will be happy to return.
Around 1500 Paris hotels are divided into four categories. Four-star hotel fulfill all desires, those one with three-stars have at least the phone and lift. In the two-star hotels, you can choose between a bathroom with shower or bathtub. From hotels with one star, however, should not expect anything more than just four walls.


Paris - Accommodation in Paris

Paris synonymous with the Cosmos

Paris synonymous with the Cosmos

Paris, world metropolis, indicating a place of love, city of light, city of culture, a city of high fashion, thousands of city lights, city of excellent cuisine, the city of Mona Lisa ... Visit and experience the river shoreline requested, Eiffel stop, Mona Lisa ... Bienvenue!
Paris is the perfect, Paris is the ceiling of humanity ... Anyone who sees Paris, thinks he sees the foundation of the whole history, between was the heavens and the stars. Paris is synonymous with the Cosmos ... has no borders. Paris not only creates the laws, creates fashion. Paris may be stupid, if he wants, and sometimes it’s even allow the luxury of this ... It is more than great, it is no limited. Why? Because hi can afford all that.

Those who've been in Paris, at least for a few days, city was certainly fascinated you by its architecture. Those who've been in Paris a long time (2, 3 weeks, more), you find that has superficial tour of the city may be delayed in months.


Paris synonymous with the Cosmos


Paris synonymous with the Cosmos

French Language-Some Facts

French Language-Some Facts

French Language
Some facts about the French language
French language (la langue française) is one of the most important Romance languages. French is the official language in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Speeches by 300 million people worldwide as their first or second language.
The French language is the official and administrative language in many communities and organizations, such as the European Union, International Olympic Committee, the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union.


French Language-Some Facts

Chambord-the Jewel of the Castles

Chambord-the Jewel of the Castles

Chambord, the jewel of the valley river Loire
The rise after da Vinci's spiral staircase

Valley of the river Loire, to his romantic nature to thank a wide range of delicious castles. Among them are a special place Chambord.
Chateau of Chambord is one the most beautiful Renaissance architecture in the entire valley, but it also boasts the very surface, and is the largest of the castles in the rural valley of the river Loire. The town was intended withdrawal of the French kings from Paris life. In particular, it is a resort of Louis XIV., in the premises of the castle has its own drama also wrote Moliere.
Initially, in this place stood a small castle, which gave in Boulogne's wood, where the nobles wanted to hunting, put bloic count. Today castle gave in 1519 to build a passionate hunter Francis I, but the work was completed in 1547. France is at the invitation of the king during the visit to the construction of the Renaissance uomo universale Leonardo da Vinci. The building volume 400 rooms, 365 fireplaces...
This moment "hot" da Vinci
In addition to roof terrace, where it is possible to walk between the crowd of towers, most attention among the visitors attract famous Leonardo's double staircase. It is located at the intersection, which consists of four large halls. Two spiral staircases wrapped around eachother from the ground to the top of the castle, stairway openings, however, allowing the opposite of the rolling stairs and halls, of which the visitor climbs. For an additional charge the pillars and decorative capitals, which are surrounded by early renaissance plastic.
After the death of Francis I. year 1574, about 50 years castle no one used. During the French Revolution has threatened the destruction, in 1793 have brought from their rooms most of the furniture. The old glory of castle restored renovation work, which started in 1947, which lasted 30 years.


Chambord-the Jewel of the Castles

Corsica Old-Fashioned Island

Corsica Old-Fashioned Island

Corsica (In Corsic Corsica, France Corse) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, west of Apennine peninsula. Administrative Corsica is part of France and is divided into two departments, Corse-du-Sud with headquarters in Ajaccio, and Haute-Corse established in Bastia.
What we most now know about Corsica? After that it was Napoleon Bonaparte born in Ajaccio? After the terrorist attacks of various groups who are fighting for autonomy? After taking any of it is already known, Corsica offers much more: from the beautiful landscapes, good wines, unusual cheeses, a superb all the way to the extremely high prices and a limited number of hotels and tourist beds. In total, the 450 hotels are on the island, which have the around 130,000 beds. There is also a large number of auto camps for the modern nomads.
Balzac described Corsica as a French island, which is bathed in the Italian sun, although it has a unique, totally unique character. This beautiful, wild island in the Mediterranean Sea is like a large outdoor playground, which throughout the day offers you a wide selection of activities, at the evening offer the French cuisine, wine and music, which reflects the character of the Mediterranean.


Corsica Old-Fashioned Island

Corsica is under French only 200 years, but it has maintained a number, only its own features: gastronomy, music and culture. Corsica has integrity and is a little old-fashioned. Island, on which Napoleon Bonaparte was born, have not a lack of goodness and of national pride.



Corsica Old-Fashioned Island