With their picturesque villages, spectacular views and cosy mountain restaurants, not to mention glittering snowflakes ...

Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate illustration ...

I could quit my job, leave London and move to France to work on a vineyard. My mornings would begin with birdsong and my days ...

The Matisse Chapel, located in the French town of Vence (in the southeast of the country), will be classified as national heritage by the French Ministry of Culture. The Chapel of the Rosary, better ...

A Provence gem, a family skiing favourite, and an Alsace Wine Route hotspot are the top three most welcoming towns in France, ...

The 17th-century Sainte-Ursule Chapel at the famous Sorbonne University is a silent, timeless witness to Paris’ Christian ...

No criminal investigation will be launched into charity Abbé Pierre, who died in 2007, because the statute of limitations had ...

In a small guest-house in the West Cork town of Skibbereen lives a man who could help to solve one of the most enduring ...

Though Methodists and Baptists were more numerous and preachers of other traditions more famous, the Episcopal Church secured its ... this is not going to happen. France, with its tradition ...

One of the most famous examples of a medieval ... the efforts of King Henry II to bring the church under royal control. After living in exile in France for a time, Becket returned to England ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view its famous frescoes ... buried under the altar of the Dominican ...

and her original song "Ball and Chain," made famous by Janis Joplin. Affectionately called "Big Mama" for both her size and her powerful voice, she grew up singing in church and eventually caught ...