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Grasse

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Grasse is the home of the perfume industry that is built on the side of a hill inland from the coast of the French Riviera.

Carcassonne

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Carcassonne is a city in south-west France.

saint-brieuc

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Saint Brieuc is the administrative capital of the Côtes-d'Armor departement in Brittany.

Narbonne

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Narbonne

is located int the Languedoc-Roussillon , a large region of southern France with a long Mediterranean coastline that borders the French regions of Provence and Midi-Pyrenees, to the east and west respectively, and occupies the easternmost part of the French border with Spain to the south.

Frejus

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Fréjus is in the French Riviera , near St. Raphael.

Arles

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Saint-Malo

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Laval

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The city of Laval, conglomerated from 14 smaller municipalities in 2000, covers the island Île Jésus and some smaller islands to the northwest of Montreal. Largely rural, the city's main population center is on the highway 15 corridor and its southeast coast, which faces Montreal across the Rivière des Prairies.

Access

Vannes

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Vannes is the 5th city of Brittany in France.

Access

By train: The high-speed TGV from Paris goes to Rennes. Switch to the regular-speed SNCF train to Vannes. NOTE: the main train direction is not marked Vannes.

Activities and Sightseeing

The Medieval Village

Ajaccio

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Ajaccio, known as the "uimperial city" is the largest city and capital of the French Mediterranean island of Corsica.

Napoleon’s birth place is located on one of the most beautiful bay in the world (some say it compares to the bay of Napoli), cuddled between  the mountain and the sea.