Several adorable small towns in France inspired "Beauty and the Beast," but only one offers travelers a storybook escape into ...

Against the foothills of the Alps and looking out towards the Mediterranean, Castellar is a delightful little village full of charm, just a few kilometres from Italy. This village is an unassuming gem ...

Mazan used to be known as a quiet yet stunning village in the south of France. Now, it has a global reputation as a perverted, evil place as it’s home to convicted rapist Dominique Pelicot and is the ...

If you want to capture a sense of time and place and experience the ambiance of what life was like in the early settlements in France, there's no better place to do it than in its ancient towns.

Mazan in southern France. Picture: Christophe Simon/AFP Clancey also interviewed Diane Jeantet, a foreign correspondent now based in Paris, and they drove along the streets of the village.

Brimming with charming medieval hamlets, picturesque ancient towns perched on hillsides ... top vacation destination in France by wandering the streets of the old town, where you'll pass charming ...