Top 10 Places To Visit In France - 4K Travel Guide 

As a frequent British visitor to France, one of my favourite things about the country is the fact that it’s simultaneously a northern European country and a southern European country (a good way of illustrating this is noting that Dunkirk - 51.03°N - is almost on the same latitude as London - 51.51°N - whilst Perpignan - 42.69°N - is more or less on the same latitude as Rome - 41.90°N), and the food, people, architecture and general lifestyle reflect this fact. There is nothing I like better than getting a ferry to Brittany and Normandy, enjoying the Franco-Celtic green and pleasant scenery for a few days, then hopping on a TGV and 4hrs later I’m soaking up the sun, listening to the electric buzz of the cicadas, and walking among the palm trees of Nice, or Marseille, or Perpignan. The colours change to reflect the predominant skies. Paris, with its resolutely monochrome palette, knows it's a northern town. 250 miles south and you’re in Lyon, a city whose colours resemble a box of ripening peaches and with bleached red roofs reflecting the southern sun. The fact the country also borders 8 other countries makes it endlessly fascinating, as you get that Flemish vibe in Lille, a distinctly Germanic tone in Strasbourg, and that seductive Latin magnetism of Spain and Italy in Bayonne and Nice. Food, people, weather, architecture all distinctly change to a fascinating extent from region to region, city to city, village to village. In many ways, notwithstanding its strong centralism and the prevalent 21st century globalism, France feels like about 3 or 4 countries in one. For all these reasons (and more!), it’s an endlessly captivating place.

France is a vibe... especially the alps and riviera! 😁⛰️🏝️🇫🇷

The Loire Castles like Chambord or Chenonceau also are incredible !!

Saint Malo, Saint Emilion, Bonifacio, Bordeaux, and Biarritz are also lovely places to visit in France. I’ve been there it’s amazing

I love France so much. I spent three months there in 2019. I visited Pau, Bordeaux (my absolute favorite), Tolousse, and many historical tiny villages in the south. My partner and I had a picnic for our anniversary in the Pyrenees Mountains by a waterfall. We spent Christmas morning exploring a walled city before returning to the farmhouse where we were staying. France is my most memorable part of being a nomad. My partner and I are going to apply for residency in France next year.

I love everything French!!! We have been very lucky to visit most of these places!!!!

France is my favourite country so far !!!! 💙🤍❤ so beautiful !

Beautiful. Probably the most beautiful country in the world.

France is so beautiful and there are so many stunning Places to go to. The Camargue is incredible, with its culture, nature and small Cities like Saintes Maries de la Mer or Aigues-Mortes. This year we spent Somerset time at the Cote d‘albatre in the Normandy, especially in Veules les Roses. We love it.

Perigord/Dordogne is really amazing, my favourite place in France personally

France is so diverse in its Landscape and culture. Love it. I have spent time exploring the Alps and south. A great life experience

Augergne is such an incredible place, old dead volcanoes are beautiful and even magical during fall.

Other hidden gems in France: - l'île vierge crozon (Bretagne) - Corsica (Bonefacio, Porto Vecchio, Scandola…) - Puy de come (Auvergne) - Gorges du Verdon & Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (Provence) - îles d’Hyères, îles du Levant… (Toulons) - Thonon-les-Bains (Lac Leman) - Ardèche & Vallon Pont D'arc - île de ré & île d'oléron - Viaduct de Millau - …

Les Pyrénées, le Pays Basque and l'Auvergne also worth the look :)

It's amazing that a country of 212,000 square miles can have such incredible geographic diversity! And that's not even counting the overseas departments and territories. I am so proud to having been born in Paris and have remained French my entire life. There's so much more I want to see! Thanks Ryan, you brought back some wonderful memories.

Thank you from the French for showing the majestic places of our country, most French people like me have not even visited everything you show here

If you come back in France in few time, visit Gavarnie circle in Pyrénées, pic du midi (with blue lake and Tourmalet road) and also gorges de l'Ardèche, you will be conquest

France really is incredible, thanks for uploading Ryan. Great video as always!

Périgord, Lubéron, les Baux, arcachon, biarritz, Sarlat, Ardèche, collioure, châteaux cathares, loire valley., Burgundy, 159 nicest small towns, Beaune...endless list

Thank you Ryan for showing France in such a beautiful way; and there are so much others beautiful places in our country...

As a French I would say huge thanks for this TOP10, OMG so lucky to be French

I did two seasons in the French Alps. France has so much to offer 👍

a "top 1000" for France would have been better, there is so many amazing places to visit there !!

Annecy, French alps, Alsace, Colmar, Paris, Etretat, Mont st Michel, Brittany, Le conquet, Carcassonne, Uzes, Avignon, Menton

It's my dream to visit France. It's such a gorgeous country.

It's my dream to visit France. It's such a gorgeous country. 🥰

France is a beautiful country with multiple cultures and i will visit with family soon and I would explore all the famous places

Yippie!!! Strasbourg is there! I Love the city. How the traditional houses look like is really beautiful! But all in all French is very enchanting country. Merci Ryan !

Mont Saint Michelle is the best place to visit, such an amazing place. Would love to visit it again some day ❤️

Cap de Nice, and Cannes Pointe de I'Aiguille. Really Amazing places in France for cliff jumping and snorkeling. I can't recommend it enough : )

Suggestions for part 2 : Cities - Bordeaux, Toulouse, Lyon, Montpellier, Marseille, Aix en Provence, Lille, Rouen, Rennes, La Rochelle, Cordes sur ciel, Rocamadour, Sarlat, Locronan, Saint Cirq Lapopie, Nîmes, Arles, Colioure, Nice, Cassis ... Landscapes : Côte de Granit Rose, Finistère/Crozon, îles bretonnes, Massif central, Pyrénées, Gorges du Verdon, Lubéron, Corse, Vercors, La Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Calédonie, Tahiti-Polynésie ...

Finally a list of things to visit in France that goes a bit beyond the expected. Thanks for sharing! I would have loved to see a couple more images from some of the places you mention and barely show (Avignon, for example) but a great start to do some more research. Nice stuff.

Thank you for all these nice views recalling amazing memories! You can also mention les Chateaux de la Loire, of which Amboise where Leonardo da Vinci created Mona Lisa. You also have to bike your way across Bordeaux vineyards and go eat oysters on the Bassin d'Arcachon with a chilly glass of white wine. Nimes and Arles with their roman theaters are worth the visit too. Not forgetting Toulouse, the pink city, the medieval places in Gascony, birth region of D'Artagnan, and so much more...

Some favs are the chateaux of Chenonceaux and Chambord

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to!!!!! This was absolutely stunning to watch. Greate work, great edit....

Vive la France ❤️

This was so great in helping me make decisions about places I wanted to visit on my trip to France this summer! Thank you!!!!

Thank you very much Ryan for showing my country, for people who could be interested there is also to visit, le colorado de Rustrel, le Pic de Midi de Bigorre, le cirque de Gavarnie, Peyrepertuse, Les gorges du Verdon, Le Puy de Dôme, Rocamadour, Colmar during Christmas !

This is my home sweet home. Thank you so much for making this video! 🇫🇷 ❤️

Wow I just started planning a trip there this summer ! I needed this

Great job! those motion pictures are gorgeous ! As these places would tend to be pretty crowded in August and July, September, and even October for the south, would be a good moment to travel there. Except for Paris, which would be the most quiet in august, when all the Parisians are somewhere else enjoying holidays. Thanks man, great stuff.

As an inhabitant of Brittany, I can say that the plans are well chosen, but there is so much to see that it would take a one hour video 😅 The second landscape that we can see, I would recognize it between 1000! It's not far from Cap Fréhel. Not far away, there is the campsite which was for a time the largest municipal campsite in Europe, it is a fairly "Roots" campsite without the fuss and where you can rest wherever you want.

Some of these areas in France are absolutely beautiful! I also liked the historic areas. Thanks for sharing @Ryan Shirley.

Enfin vous êtes allé en France ! 🇫🇷 ⚜️ Merci ! Allons voir !

Thank you for sharing such a wonderful aerial shot!

Ah que j'aime mon pays 🧡🇫🇷🙏🏻✝️

Always amazing footage. Thank you for share your great work. Watching from Germany.

I've been to France three times and admittedly, I've only seen very little of it considering how big it is but I loved it. Lovely country. It's amazing how big France really is. On its own it's about the same size as Poland and Romania together. Spain is a whopper itself, been there too, it's lovely.

France is really very beautiful country.

Thank you again for this amazing trip! Colmar is like a fairy tale, especially at Christmas time;)

Great video. Cant wait to go back to explore some of the regions i havent been to.

What a pleasure to see my region Alsace in this video !

Thanks for sharing! I’ve never been to France but when I get there Versailles is top of my list! I’ll make sure to hit up the rest of these places too! So beautiful! Cool channel! I’m following!

the Aiguille du Midi is one of the places in France i hope to visit someday

Awesome video - so many stunning shots in there. A few more places to add to the bucket list!

Amazing video Ryan, beautifully shot and produced.

Ryan, if there's somebody in the world whose life I envy the most, that one would definitely be you. I wish some day I could visit so many different places with so much typical cultural and geographical characteristics, though I'm already older than you. What else can I say? Another awesome video with stoning scenic pictures. I thought you would not mention the wonderful Côte d'Azur in South France, but the coast was there, in the end. I already know some of these places, specially those towns in Alsacia. I guess you could dedicate a whole video to the south of France, including lovely towns in the Region of Provence and its fields of lavender as well as costal towns and the beautiful "calanques" such as those of Cassis, for instance. Thanks for the video

Thank you very much for this video :) ! If you look for big historical moments I highly recommand my sweet Normandy (again) the beaches near Caen (Arromanche, the Pegasus bridge) and the many WW2 memorials there, and of course les château des la Loire (beautiful)

Corsica is by far the nicest place in France I´ve been to and together with the fjords of Norway my favourite area in Europe. There are not so many people, the water is crystal-clear, the mountains are beautiful and it smells nice.

france is incredibly beautiful.. amazing video Ryan

Stunning places. Nice compilation with such a pleasing narration. 👌

Absolutely wonderful ❤️ Greetings from Scotland 😊 Have a wonderful day everyone 🌻

France really a beautifull country. good video

Beautiful France

Awesome! I hate crowded touristy place so I'd probably avoid Paris and visit one of those cute sleepy towns! :D

Hola!! Me encanta tu canal. Tus vídeos son espectaculares. Me encantaría que RU-vid tuviera una opción para poder verlos traducidos al Español. Pero de todas formas no puedo dejar de verlos, ya que tienen tal calidad las imágenes, y lo muestras todo tan bonito que enamoran. Gracias por hacer estos vídeos. Anotaré para próximos viajes muchos de los lugares que muestras

Here in creuse where i live, we are slap bang in the center of all these places.

Amazing, can't wait to see these places.

Wonderful video Beautiful ^^I love Paris 🇨🇵

Dont forget LOIRE's castels , are beautiful ❤ Thanks for your video 🇨🇵🇨🇵

Such a gorgeous video and so well done. You could be the best tour guide ever.

Sunil Gangopadhyay, one of the most popular Bengali writers, wrote a beautiful book About France, (SOBIR DESHE KOBITAR DESHE) ‘In the land of pictures, in the land of poetry’. I like France.

Try "les gorges du Verdon" and "la vallée des merveilles_

Paris ❤ Please take me there already 😍

So beautiful place. I hope we can travel there soon 🙂

Amazing video💖 l love French Riviera!!!!♥️

YES! You included Annecy!

The French are very lucky 😍🇫🇷

Amazing video. I love French Riviera.

France makes the attraction of the many people....We are very lucky to see the France in this video...Thank you Ryan....It always new to me

This is amazing!! I want to see every single place in this video!‼️🤩

amazing country!

Fantastic places! Thank you for the video!!!

Très belle vidéo, bravo !

If you do a part 2, make sure to mention the Loire Valley which have a lot of stunning chateaus. Especially Chambord Castle.

This was an amazing video! Just got quite a few more places to add to my bucket list! About 2 thirds of the list comes from you 😂

Thanks for showing us some of France's hidden gems🥰

It’s a great introduction and video. Thank you 😊

Very nice video about a very nice Country! Visit Europe, it is so nice! Salut from 🇩🇪

My next destination after travel restrictions🥰

I like your work very much. Quite informative. From Bangladesh.

Fabulous ! 😀 Your Videos can always provide me with delightful Surprises with great choices of destinations. Thank You.❤😁

Blessed and Proud to be French 😍🇫🇷 God Bless France ❤️

That’s a nice top ten. Of course, there are other places well worth a visit. The sad thing is that, when talking about France, people ALWAYS refer to continental European France… Go see overseas France, some places are just mind blowing, Tahiti, Neo Caledonia (maybe soon to be independant, referendum in December), Reunion, Guyane and many many others. For those in Northern America, go check Saint Pierre et Miquelon islands, they’re right next door.

What a beautiful country

Thank you Ryan for showing us our beautiful country. I wish you'll include my city of Lyon in your next Part 2.

France is amazing, could you also make a video of the French territories? French Guiana deserves more love😪❤️

Great video ! like your top ten (view of the massif du Mont Blanc from the other side other side of Chamonix valley is the best in the world according to me). I'd also recomand the Ecrins National Park if you want to hike ;) Greetings from France

I love your Places to go,giving insperation as traveller..keep it up

Francia, tiene paisajes muy bellos. Y París es una ciudad muy bonita.