FrenchRendezvous Guided Tours

PICTURESQUE REGIONS & VILLAGES OF FRANCE
Your French Rendezvous should not be without a visit to some of the most beautiful and romantic villages and market towns of regional France. Many of the historic and most picturesque villages are included in some of our other tours and in particular GastronomiCity an exploration of food and wine.

French Rendezvous can guide you through some of the most picteresque of those in the Bordeaux, Perigord, Champagne and, the French Riviera, as well as new trendy destinations like the Loire, Provence and Languedoc-Roussillon.

To qualify for consideration the villages must have no more than 2000 inhabitants and possess at least two sites classified as of historic interest.

THEMED TOURS	Your Next French Rendezvous
	Bordeaux-Perigord: St Emilion & Brantome Bordeaux is the most well known wine country and probably the most popular in the word. Laying on thousand years of history, wines here have the taste of excellence. French Rendezvous will be taking you to St Emilion and the Market towns of Perigord. More Info...
	Le Loire: Tradition & Le Savoire-faire � 30 minutes de Nantes, � quelques kilom�tres des bords de Loire, la Vall�e de Clisson est situ�e au c�ur du vignoble nantais, au carrefour de la Loire-Atlantique, de la Vend�e et de l�Anjou. Terre nourrie par la S�vre et la Maine, deux rivi�res qui donnent son caract�re au Muscadet du m�me nom, la Vall�e de Clisson se r�v�le italienne et bretonne quand on �voque le patrimoine de Clisson, cit� historique au caract�re unique o� la tuile et la brique se m�lent � l�ardoise et au granit. More Info...
	Champagne: Romance in Reims French Rendezvous Champagne tours offer a privileged visit to two of the most inaccessible and elite Champagne houses, whose doors are not always open to the public. Your tour is in the company of bi-lingual guides who bring you insights gleaned from decades of experience in the Champagne wine trade. More Info...
	Carcassonne: Circular villages.. In medieval times villages of this region were often situated on hilltops and built in a circular fashion for defensive purposes. Many examples can be found in the Raz�s. They are now called circulades. French Rendezvous offers a visit to Carcassonne and a number of the finest examples of circulades including: Bram, Donazac, Bellegarde du Raz�s and more... More Info...
	Rhone Vallee & Lyon: Cuisine Kings Long hailed for its innovative and simply delectable dishes, the Rhone Valley has the distinguished reputation as being home to France�s finest food. Our gourmet stopover in Provence, starts with our selection of restaurants. Discover the different flavors of our local produce while taking part in cooking classes full of the scents and colours of Provence. More Info...

Bram

Bram People have been building fortified hilltop settlements here since prehistoric times. They are called oppida and you can visit a spectacular example, the Oppidum de Enserune, near to the modern village of Nissan-lez-Enserune in the H�rault d�partement.

Bastides. The word bastide covers two types of settlement. The first is the small defensive hill-top hamlet or village, possibly but not necessarily a circulade. The second is a sort of medieval planned settlement, typically laid out on a grid pattern, rather like many modern purpose-built cities. (Indeed the idea of laying cities out like this came from medieval bastides). A good example of this grid-like bastide, the Bastide of St-Louis,can be seen at the heart of the new city of Carcassonne.