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- 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

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

French Alps-Dream Skiing

French ski destination

Dream skiing in the French Alps
French ski village of Les Deux Alpes (also Les 2 Alpes and Les 2 Alpes 3600) plugs 1659 meters above sea level in the department of Isère. Les Deux Alpes is after Chamonix the "second oldest French ski destination. Main street in the village of Les Deux Alpes is approximately two kilometers long, while the apartments, shops, ... With little luck, you can effort for the apartment and six-days ski card only about two hundred euros per person (booking of apartments and ski pass at the agency is generally worth more than just booking the apartment). How much money you spend during ski week, is up to you. A food in supermarkets (the cheapest are some of the French retail chain) is no more expensive than at home. Different is at the ski resort and discos - to coffee and tea slopes costly three euros and a half, a big cup of beer seven euros, a hot dog(huge) for five euros, sandwiches seven euros.
And ski trails?
Lines are not regulated as much as an example in Austria or Italy. On the slopes, there are no crowds, perhaps only in the morning at the main gondolier, then skiers spread to dozens of kilometers of trails. All the ski slopes on two mountains are connected. Weather can change very quickly and when it is really bad, ski resorts are closed. Below, the valley Les2Alpes are mainly facilities for children and beginners, and from there skiers main gondola ride at the level of 2600 meters. But even this is not the end, you can travel to ski resorts, which have a 3600 meters high (at the level of 3450 but the ice also train ride). At the very top of the can on the glacier, which is the largest "glacier skiing in Europe, ski and from mid-June to late August.
If you are tired of skiing, you can fly over the French Alps with helicopter (46 euros per person for eight minutes of flight), the view is incredibly at the nice weather.


French ski destination

France - travel information

General Information
Population: 65 000 000
Area: 674 843 km ²
Capital: Paris
Official language: French
Currency: Euro (EUR)

France, land of "Joie de vivre", irresistible romance, a wonderful wealth of cuisine, the highest peak of Europe - Mont Blanc, Tour de France, the host of many festivals, home of Eiffel Tower, which reigns over Paris, and a Camembert and other cheeses, champagne ... and there is much more..


Facts about France


Time to visit

The most suitable period to visit France depending on the processing of planning a visit. In summer, the most visited place is coast, especially Mediterranean and the mountains - the Pyrenees and Alps. Northern parts of the France have ocean climate (as in England), with short winters and warm summers, precipitation is evenly distributed throughout the year. The best time to visit the continental part is at the spring and autumn. Weather has been nice and warm during this time, there are not many tourists, and consequently the prices are somewhat lower, and reservations are not necessary.