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Previous winners are Kaysersberg (2017),\u0026nbsp;Rochefort-en-Terre (2016),\u0026nbsp;Ploumanac\u0027h (2015),\u0026nbsp;Cordes-sur-Ciel (2014),\u0026nbsp;Eguisheim (2013) and Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (2012).\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHilltop Cassel (584 feet above sea level)\u0026nbsp;likes to call itself the \u0026quot;Everest of Flanders\u0026quot; and is a good base for exploring the surrounding battlefields. Which other pretty French villages are worth a visit? Our experts have chosen their favourites...\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Cassel","image-credits":"","image-title":"France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2018/June/cassel.jpg","slide-index":"0","image-ratio":"1.60"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Domme, Dordogne, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFred Mawer: “To best appreciate honey-hued Domme in summer, don’t come, like everyone else, on a Thursday morning for the weekly market – the village centre will be a scrum, and anyway there are better markets elsewhere in the Dordogne. And ideally stay at the Esplanade (\u003ca href\u003d\"http://esplanade-perigord.com/\"\u003eesplanade-perigord.com\u003c/a\u003e), which has bags of character, great food and a fantastic cliffside location.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/articles/reasons-to-visit-france-you-probably-never-thought-of/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003e50 reasons to visit France you probably never thought of\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/france-tours/?WT.mc_id\u003dtmg_inar_comm-tour_\u0026amp;utm_source\u003dtmg\u0026amp;utm_medium\u003dinar\u0026amp;utm_content\u003dcomm-tour\u0026amp;utm_campaign\u003dtmg_inar_comm-tour_\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eView our best escorted tours of\u0026nbsp;France\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/hotels/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eThe best hotels in France\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Ars-en-Re, Charente-Maritime, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village1 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village1/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-domme-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"1","image-ratio":"1.51"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2.\u0026nbsp;Barfleur, Manche, Normandy\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreg Ward: “In medieval times, this delightful village was \u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/normandy/hotels/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eNormandy\u003c/a\u003e’s largest port. Now its sleepy harbour is simply peppered with skiffs and fishing boats, and a handful of low-key cafes punctuate its broad quayside. A half-hour coastal stroll leads to the lofty Gatteville lighthouse, guarding the rocks where the heir to the English throne was shipwrecked in 1120.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/articles/france-best-secret-attractions/\"\u003eFrance\u0027s best-kept secrets\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/normandy/articles/normandy-travel-guide/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eNormandy travel guide\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Barfleur, Manche, Normandy","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village2 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village2/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-barfleur-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"2","image-ratio":"0.67"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Beuvron-en-Auge, Calvados, Normandy\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreg Ward: “It’s hard to imagine a more beautiful, or more quintessentially Norman, country village than this little gem, amid the meadows of the region’s dairy country. A superb ensemble of ancient half-timbered houses, festooned with flowers and displaying a vivid palette of colours, surround its central place, while the magnificent old market holds a sumptuous restaurant.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/france-tours/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eFind the perfect France tour\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/normandy/articles/normandy-travel-guide/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eThe best hotels in Normandy\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Beuvron-en-Auge, Calvados, Normandy","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village3 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village3/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Beuvron-en-Auge-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"3","image-ratio":"1.48"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003ch3\u003e4.\u0026nbsp;Ars-en-Re, Charente-Maritime, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes\u003c/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNicola Williams: “Cycling along a coastal path fringed with oyster beds and farmer shacks is the only decent way to arrive in Ars-en-Re – a sun-bleached mirage of caramel stone houses, aqua-blue shutters and oddly-spired churches, with surely the worst possible place name in France. For the ultimate seduction: feast on local oysters and overnight at Ars’ island-chic Hôtel Le Sénéchal.”\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Domme, Dordogne, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village4 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village4/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/Destinations/Europe/France/Ars-en-Re-france.jpg","slide-index":"4","image-ratio":"1.50"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Eguisheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnthony Peregrine: “A star village along the star-studded Alsace wine route, Eguisheim is so wonkily perfect that you want to wind it up to see how it works, to accordion accompaniment. Jammed between two sets of ramparts, multi-hued, half-timbered streets sag with dignity, overcome with flowers. Blood and historical squalour have been vanquished, leaving only the picturesque aftermath, French in its flair, German in its diligence. Tithe courtyards - now wineries - open hither and yon. Make for Vins Freudenreich, order a local Pfersigberg grand cru and sit outside, among gables, tables, more flowers and burnished medieval memories.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/articles/france-best-secret-attractions/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003eThe places in France you\u0027d never thought to visit (but really should)\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Eguisheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village5 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village5/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Eguisheim-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"5","image-ratio":"1.50"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Flavigny, Côte-d’Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAP: “Juliette Binoche and Julius Caesar can’t both be wrong. Binoche (and Johnny Depp and Judi Dench) favoured Flavigny - in the soft undulations of northern Burgundy - for the 2000 filming of Chocolat. Two millennia earlier, Caesar chose the hilltop site as base camp while clattering nearby Gauls. Allegedly, he brought the anis plant with him. If he didn’t, someone did: they’ve been producing anis-based sweets in the village’s medieval monastery for centuries, and still do. This ensures appealing anis aromas drift over the ancient village when there’s a breeze.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/Burgundy/hotels/\"\u003eThe best hotels in Burgundy\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village6/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003e10 dishes you cannot leave France without eating\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Flavigny, Côte-d’Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village6 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village6/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Flavigny-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"6","image-ratio":"1.54"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Gordes, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNW: “Ok, so Gordes is most definitely one of France’s \u0027martyr villages’: that is to say, much of the year it is rammed to bursting with fervent admirers. But there are few more beautiful Provencal villages perchés (hilltop villages) than this and if you catch this white-stone beauty queen at sunset on a quiet day, Gordes is pure gold.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/provence/hotels/\"\u003eThe best hotels in Provence\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Gordes, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur ","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village7 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village7/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-gordes-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"7","image-ratio":"1.47"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Lavardin, Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFM: “Lavardin rates as one of the most picturesque spots on the Loir, a little-known tributary of the Loire that is prettier than its big sister. The sleepy village is a satisfying medieval ensemble of multi-arched bridge, creeper-clad stone houses, inhabited troglodyte dwellings, frescoed Romanesque church and ruined, clifftop castle. There’s a beautiful riverside picnic spot, shaded by willows.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/lists/beautiful-castles-you-must-visit-in-your-lifetime/\" target\u003d\"_blank\"\u003e10 fairy-tale castles you must visit in your lifetime\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Lavardin, Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire ","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village8 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village8/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Lavardin-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"8","image-ratio":"1.50"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. La Roche-Guyon, Val-d’Oise, Île-de-France\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCL: “The joy of this little fragment of the Gallic soul, high up in the Val d’Oise department, is that, on certain days, it scarcely seems to have drifted beyond the 12th century. It isn’t unusual in this - plenty of French villages still sing of the medieval world. But La Roche-Guyon does so particularly persuasively thanks to its castle, a ghost of the 1100s, which dots a limestone bluff above the Seine - rooms and chambers chiselled into the living rock below. It was secure enough that it was used as a German bunker in the Second World War. But gaze down on the centre from above, and you don’t hear any echoes of conflict - just the chatter of people in cafes, and cars struggling with the narrowness of the roads.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"La Roche-Guyon, Val-d’Oise, Île-de-France ","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village9 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village9/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-La-Roche-Guyon-ALAMY-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"9","image-ratio":"0.67"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Locronan, Finistère, Brittany\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGW: “In the five centuries since Locronan’s heyday as a weaving centre, the world may have moved on, but this hilltop village remains unchanged, its grand medieval houses clustered around a ravishing cobbled square. Every July, pilgrims celebrate Brittany’s most famous pardon, following an ancient processional route through the surrounding hills that makes a wonderful walk for visitors year-round.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/brittany/hotels/\"\u003eThe best hotels in Brittany\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Locronan, Finistère, Brittany ","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village10 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village10/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Locronan-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"10","image-ratio":"1.50"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Monpazier, Dordogne, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNW: “The Dordogne is peppered with drop-dead gorgeous bastides built from old gold stone. But medieval Monpazier takes the biscuit with its stunning symmetry - a perfect quadrilateral of ancient streets languishing between sunbaked vines and chestnut forest in Périgord Pourpre. For romantic, old-fashioned flânerie, there’s simply no finer spot on French earth.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Monpazier, Dordogne, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village11 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village11/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Monpazier-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"11","image-ratio":"1.51"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. Najac, Aveyron, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAP: “During the 100 Years war, English and French knocked seven bells out of each other to take the astonishing castle way up on its promontory above the Aveyron gorges. It remains covetable - now for the drama of the site rather than defence - but also challenging: the associated medieval village strings along a sharp ridge, with spectacular plunges on either side. Your kids take a false step, you’ll be sieving them out of the river below.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/languedoc-roussillon/hotels/\"\u003eThe best hotels in Languedoc-Roussillon\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Najac, Aveyron, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées ","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village12 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village12/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Najac-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"12","image-ratio":"1.51"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13.\u0026nbsp;Piana, Corsica\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNW: “I’m not sure which is the most incredible – or more incredulously beautiful: the heart-thumping drive to Piana along relentless hair-pins; the fantastical, flaming-red rock pinnacles hemming in the precariously narrow road; or the village itself that burns blood-red at sunset. Whichever it is, this remote settlement in Corsica is a high octane, once-seen-never-forgotten affair.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/articles/the-20-best-mediterranean-islands/\"\u003eThe 20 best Mediterranean islands\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Piana, Corsica ","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village13 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village13/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Piana-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"13","image-ratio":"1.50"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14.\u0026nbsp;Roque-Gageac, Dordogne, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNW: “As with so many of France’s most beautiful villages, the best views are from afar – or, in this case, from the other side of the water. Picture a spellbinding huddle of medieval stone, lacing the Dordogne River and lorded over by almighty golden cliffs (pocketed to boot with a 12th-century troglodyte fort). Remarkable!”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Roque-Gageac, Dordogne, Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village14 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village14/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Roque-Gageac-ALAMY-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"14","image-ratio":"1.51"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15. Rochefort en Terre, Morbihan, Brittany\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGW: “Rural France is scattered with “villes fleuris”, but few villages could possibly be more flowery than this exquisite Breton community. Along its winding lanes and alleyways, everything from fountains and wells to windowsills and watertroughs is bursting with begonias and geraniums, while the gardens of its tumbledown fifteenth-century château are an exhilarating blaze of colour.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/brittany/articles/top-10-the-best-beach-hotels-in-brittany/\"\u003eThe 10 best beach hotels in Brittany\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Rochefort en Terre, Morbihan, Brittany","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village15 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village15/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Rochefort-Terre-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"15","image-ratio":"1.51"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e16. Roussillon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNW: “Visit this hilltop village in Provence with kids if you can, if only to share their infectious impish delight at rampaging through the otherworldly desert landscape of Roussillon’s Sentier des Ocres. It dazzles with every fiery shade under the sun, from flaming red to ferocious orange.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href\u003d\"https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/france/provence/articles/ultimate-provence/\"\u003eHow to have the perfect holiday in Provence\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Roussillon, Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village16 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village16/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Roussillon-AP-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"16","image-ratio":"1.50"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e17. Sainte-Enimie, Lozère, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAP: “The Tarn Gorges - nature on a supernatural scale - are one of the many gifts to the world of the Lozère département, at the southern end of the Massif Central. At their heart, the village Ste Enimie cures ugliness. Sometimes. A princess, Enimie bade God destroy her looks that she might avoid marrying the fellow chosen by her father. God obliged, then sent her to the distant Tarn Gorges, whose waters would restore her beauty. So they did, so Enimie stayed put, founding an abbey and the village. Granted, the Tarn waters haven’t worked for me, but they might for you. Meanwhile, we have a superb medieval village, climbing up \u0026nbsp;its steep slope, overlooking the river and flanked by terraces where once, tenacious peasants grew vines, fruit and almonds. Now tourists hire canoes.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Sainte-Enimie, Lozère, Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village17 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village17/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Sainte-Enimie-ALAMY-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"17","image-ratio":"1.50"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e18. Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCL: “It isn’t that Sainte-Suzanne is hidden. It is more than it isn’t part of the French tourism heartland - a segment of the Mayenne department, too far south for the byways of Normandy, too far north to fall within the tower-shadows of the chateaux of the Loire Valley. Specifically, it sits between the (largely) unheralded towns of Laval and Le Mans. And it is nothing you haven’t seen before - a cluster of houses and churches, pitched 70 metres up on a crag above the Erve valley. But when sunlight slants across its walls in late afternoon, turning them the colour of honey, you will wonder why you haven’t seen it before.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n","image-alt":"Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne, Pays de la Loire ","image-credits":"","image-title":"Village18 | France\u0027s 20 most beautiful villages - Travel","slide-url":"/travel/destinations/europe/france/galleries/france-most-beautiful-best-villages/village18/","image-src":"/content/dam/Travel/2016/July/france-village-Sainte-Suzanne-ALAMY-TRAVEL.jpg","slide-index":"18","image-ratio":"0.67"},{"image-subtitle":"","image-caption":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e19. Tourtour, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur\u0026nbsp;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAP: “Of all Provence’s celebrated perched villages, none is more perched than Tourtout, 635-metres up in the Haut-Var, with its views way away to the Med and tough, stone-built past now experienced through rosé-tinted glasses. But medieval integrity - two châteaux, vaulted little streets, fountains - is intact, and has survived far worse than tourism. 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