Podtours of France
Your personal sightseeing guide
France is full of interesting places. Here's our selection of audio tours of French cathedrals and cities. Download one of our audio guides to know more about what you're seeing.
- Beauvais - France's loftiest and most ambitious cathedral, a Feast of the Donkey, and a finely carved Wheel of Fortune.
- Bourges - this city is famed for its visionary Gothic cathedral, completely different from anything else you'll see in France. But it's also the city of the Duc de Berry, the foremost art patron of his time, and Jacques Coeur - the richest man in fifteenth-century France. Learn about these fascinating characters as you wander the streets of this fascinating medieval city.
- Chartres - probably the most famous Gothic cathedral in France, a medievalist's dream city break - you'll see fine stained glass, marvellous carving on the three great porches, and a labyrinth laid out in the floor of the nave. But there's a lot more to this hilltop city, capital of the Beauce cornfields.
- Laon Cathedral - if you're interested
in architecture this is for you. We don't his name, but the master mason
here was the Santiago de Calatrava of his day, integrating engineering
know-how with elegance and purity of line to create probably the most
elegant work of the first generation Gothic style. Learn about the stone
oxen who still stand at the top of the towers, and see the original stained
glass.
- Paris - our audio tour of the Ile de la Cité visits the two greatest works of the medieval period in Paris, the amazingly transparent Sainte Chapelle and the dim, echoing spaces of Notre Dame.
- Reims - home of the coronation cathedral of the French kings, and capital of Champagne. COMING SOON
- Rouen - the city where Joan of Arc was burned at the stake is also a city of fine Gothic churches and wonderful half timbered houses. We wander round the streets, visiting the cathedral, the modern church put up to Joan of Arc's memory, and some fine Renaissance palaces.