France is known for amazing food and wine, but the natural scenery of France’s rolling hills, mountains, and coastline is something to be rivaled. I had never heard of the Calanques until this year, ...

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Visualize jagged limestone cliffs dropping into secret pebble beaches, which are lapped by the aquamarine waters of the Mediterranean Sea, and you'll start to get a picture of the Parc National des ...

France is to trial a "visitor's permit" in the spring in Sugiton, a pristine cove on the southern French coast near the Mediterranean city of Marseille and a popular site that has been threatened for ...

Climbing and other low-impact sports such as canoing and hiking may be at risk at the planned Calanques National Park in France. A group called "Association des Calanques et des Hommes" is asking for ...

Hikers walk past a placard reading "reservation required" on their way to the calanque de Sugiton in the Calanques National Park, in Marseille, southern France, on June 24, 2022. NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP In ...

It is a very Mediterranean revolt, fuelled by pastis sipped to the sound of cicadas, and in defence of the right to spend afternoons doing very little in rickety huts without water and electricity and ...