Film and TV locations in France
209 places to shoot in France: 36 industrial and derelict locations, 30 theatres, arenas and venues, 23 offices, schools and public buildings and 120 more. 109 have a photo and 60 carry practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
What France pays back
France runs the Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP / C2I), worth 30% (40% VFX-heavy) as a tax credit. Work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison, and find a studio, service company or post house in the 47 companies we list in France.
Regions
- Paris, Ile-de-France 18
- Rhone, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 13
- Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire 10
- Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur 10
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine 8
- Finistere, Brittany 6
- Hauts-de-France 6
- Haute-Garonne, Occitanie 6
- Calvados, Normandy 5
- Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine 5
- Nord, Hauts-de-France 5
- Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire 5
- Haut-Rhin, Grand Est 5
- Seine-Maritime, Normandy 4
- Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 4
- Loir-et-Cher, Centre-Val de Loire 4
- Loire, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 4
- Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany 4
- Ile-de-France 4
- Cotes-d'Armor, Brittany 3
- Cote-d'Or, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte 3
- Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire 3
- Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur 3
- Gard, Occitanie 3
- Moselle, Grand Est 3
- Indre, Centre-Val de Loire 3
- Sarthe, Pays de la Loire 3
- Seine-Saint-Denis, Ile-de-France 3
- Herault, Occitanie 3
- Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes 3
And single locations in 32 more regions, all of them in the list below.
Industrial and derelict locations in France 36
Factories, warehouses, power stations, mines, depots and abandoned buildings: raw space, hard surfaces and the kind of decay that is impossible to build. All 36 on their own page.
Ateliers des Capucins
Industrial & derelict
Former naval machine shops above the Penfeld converted into a covered public plateau, with cast iron columns, overhead cranes, preserved machinery and a glazed roof.
Base sous-marine de Saint-Nazaire (La Base)
Industrial & derelict
Reinforced-concrete U-boat pens built by the German navy in WWII on the Saint-Nazaire docks, now holding exhibition halls, a climbing wall and a rooftop garden.
Bassins de Lumières
Industrial & derelict
Former WWII submarine pens on the Bordeaux docks converted into a digital art centre, with four raw concrete basins used for large-scale wall and floor projections.
Capacity: 900 · Two indoor spaces: the Citerne (155 sqm, 360-degree projection) and the Cube (220 sqm, soundproofed), plus elevated walkways and tiered seating....
Centre Historique Minier (Lewarde Mining Centre)
Industrial & derelict
Preserved coal mine museum in the former Delloye colliery, with pithead buildings, a headframe, underground galleries and workshops from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coalfield.
Capacity: 200 · Salle Jules Mousseron (70 sqm), Salle Lucien Jonas (36 sqm) and Salle Albert Bouquillon (34 sqm) meeting rooms, plus the Auditorium Georges Delerue...
Écomusée Creusot Montceau
Industrial & derelict
Industrial heritage network around the former Schneider steelworks in Le Creusot, with the Château de la Verrerie glassworks-turned-mansion as its main site.
Halle Tony Garnier
Industrial & derelict
A vast steel-framed former livestock market hall of 1864 in central Lyon, converted into the city's largest standing-capacity venue for concerts, trade fairs and exhibitions.
Seen in: L'Innocent
L'Aventure Michelin
Industrial & derelict
Michelin's visitor site in a former factory building at Cataroux in Clermont-Ferrand, with exhibition halls, period machinery, tyre making displays and industrial yards.
Les Frigos
Industrial & derelict
Former refrigerated railway goods depot near the old Paris-Ivry station, now artist studios behind a graffiti-covered brick facade, with raw interiors and a covered yard in the 13th arrondissement.
Les Machines de l'Ile
Industrial & derelict
Former Dubigeon shipyard halls on the Ile de Nantes, with steel framed naves, gantries and workshops housing large mechanical animals and a carousel.
Les Subsistances
Industrial & derelict
Former military supply depot on the Saone quays in Lyon, now a centre for performing-arts creation with rehearsal halls, a courtyard and studios, published as available to hire.
Capacity: 2000 · La Verriere and La Boulangerie each take up to 2,000 people for a cocktail reception or 800 for a seated dinner (La Verriere available April to...
Motoco
Industrial & derelict
Former DMC textile hall in Mulhouse used as artist and maker studios, with long concrete bays, roof lights, freight doors and bare brick walls over several floors.
Ouvrage du Hackenberg
Industrial & derelict
Largest work of the Maginot Line, with about 10 km of underground galleries, an electric railway, a generator hall, kitchens, dormitories and gun blocks in raw concrete and steel.
Parc de Wesserling
Industrial & derelict
Former royal textile works in a Vosges valley: 19th century spinning and weaving halls, a chimney, a chateau, workers housing and terraced gardens inside one site.
Saline royale d'Arc-et-Senans
Industrial & derelict
Semicircular saltworks of 1779 by Ledoux, with a columned gatehouse, the director's house, two long evaporation halls and a wide open courtyard closed by woodland.
Chateau de la Verrerie, Le Creusot
Industrial & derelict
Former crystal works turned Schneider family seat, with two conical glass furnaces in the forecourt, workshops, a small theatre and the Creusot steelworks archive.
Cité de la Voile Éric Tabarly (Keroman submarine base)
Industrial & derelict
WWII U-boat pens on the Keroman peninsula in Lorient with roofs up to 7.5 metres thick, now holding a sailing museum, boatyards and a marina business park.
Capacity: 380 · Named spaces include the Auditorium, Karré Affaires (modular cocktail/reception space), two equipped meeting rooms, a permanent exhibition space, and...
Cite du Livre
Industrial & derelict
Former match factory in Aix-en-Provence, converted into a library and performance complex that keeps its industrial brick shell and a large auditorium used by the Festival d'Aix.
Domaine Pommery
Industrial & derelict
Champagne house on 18 km of Gallo-Roman chalk pits about 30 m down, reached by a long stair, with carved galleries, bottle stacks and Elizabethan style buildings above ground.
Entrepot Beraud-Sudreau
Industrial & derelict
A 10,000 square metre former warehouse in Brive-la-Gaillarde, split into two halls of 6,000 and 4,000 square metres with 200 square metres of offices, listed by the regional film commission.
Two buildings of 6,000 and 4,000 square metres including 200 square metres of offices
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Escat
Industrial & derelict
A former tobacco-processing plant in Bergerac with five buildings totalling 42,000 square metres, offered by the regional film commission for productions needing large industrial floor space.
Five buildings of 20,000, 5,500, 5,500, 5,500 and 5,500 square metres
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France-Tabac
Industrial & derelict
A former tobacco warehouse complex on the edge of Sarlat-la-Caneda, five buildings totalling 14,400 square metres, listed by the Perigord film office for set construction and large interiors.
Five buildings of 6,235, 2,700, 2,160, 2,160 and 1,141 square metres
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Grande Saline de Salins-les-Bains
Industrial & derelict
Salt works with a 13th century vaulted underground gallery, brine pumps still in place and a 165 m evaporation hall, in a small spa town below wooded slopes.
Halle Tropisme
Industrial & derelict
Former army vehicle workshop of about 4,000 m2 in Montpellier turned into a cultural venue, with steel trusses, concrete floors, studios, a bar and a courtyard.
La Condition Publique
Industrial & derelict
Former municipal wool-conditioning warehouse in Roubaix, a long glass-roofed 19th-century industrial hall now run as a cultural and event venue.
Capacity: 5000 · More than 10,000 sqm across named spaces: Rue couverte, Verrière, Halle A, B and C, Plateau Coucke et Labos, Le Club, L'Alim, and Les Toits Terrasses....
La Friche la Belle de Mai
Industrial & derelict
Former SEITA tobacco factory in Marseille converted into a multi-storey arts complex, with raw concrete floors, a rooftop garden and a skatepark, hired out through its own privatisation service.
Capacity: 4000 · Accommodates 10 to 4,000 people; La Cartonnerie is a 2,500 sqm modular space; the roof terrace is 8,000 sqm with views over Marseille; meeting rooms...
La Sucriere
Industrial & derelict
Former sugar warehouse on the Confluence docks in Lyon, a long brick and concrete shed on the Saone quayside, now an exhibition and events venue run by a professional events operator.
Capacity: 4000 · 5,100 sqm covered in total, including 3,800 sqm of event space and 1,700 sqm of exhibition space; 5 balcony terraces overlooking the Saone; capacity...
Lagora
Industrial & derelict
A disused 10,000 square metre leisure and commercial complex in Angouleme, split across three buildings and listed by the regional film commission for large-scale sets.
Three buildings of 3,650, 2,411 and 1,552 square metres
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Le Silo
Industrial & derelict
1920s grain silo on Marseille's Arenc docks, gutted and rebuilt inside as a concert and conference hall while keeping its raw concrete exterior, hired for shows and corporate events.
Le Tripostal
Industrial & derelict
Former postal sorting depot beside Lille-Flandres station, converted into a bare-shell exhibition hall with high ceilings and loading-bay access, hired for shows and events.
Les Abattoirs, Musee - Frac Occitanie Toulouse
Industrial & derelict
Former municipal slaughterhouse on the Garonne in Toulouse, converted into a contemporary art museum that keeps the original brick halls, steel roof trusses and a loading yard.
Capacity: 2000 · La Nef is 38 m long and 10 m wide with brick walls and high ceilings; Salle Picasso is 15 m by 12 m; the Auditorium stage is 10.8 m long and 3.8 m...
Les Docks, Marseille
Industrial & derelict
Row of 19th-century dockside warehouses on the Joliette waterfront, restored around an internal courtyard of offices, shops and restaurants.
Mine temoin d'Ales
Industrial & derelict
Training colliery on the edge of Ales with about 650 m of galleries, cutting machines, timber and steel props, a pithead yard and a lamp room.
Musee des mines de fer de Lorraine, Neufchef
Industrial & derelict
Iron ore museum set inside a real gallery, with about 1.5 km of tunnels, rail wagons, drilling and loading machines and lit ore faces at three periods of working.
Puits Couriot, Parc-Musee de la Mine
Industrial & derelict
Colliery closed in 1973 and kept as a museum: winding towers, the 1948 hanging changing room, lamp room, workshops, slag heaps and a visitable underground gallery.
Seen in: Le Brasier
Station F
Industrial & derelict
Former Halle Freyssinet railway freight depot, a single steel-framed hall over 300 metres long in southeast Paris, now a start-up campus with open floors and event space.
Transpalux
Industrial & derelict
A film lighting and grip company's premises in Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente near Angoulême, offered by the regional film commission as three separate industrial halls of 487 to 710 square metres.
Three buildings of 603.7, 710.4 and 487.1 square metres
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Theatres, arenas and venues in France 30
Auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, cinemas, arenas and event spaces, with the backstage, foyers and dressing rooms that come with them. All 30 on their own page.
Accor Arena
Theatre, arena & venue
Multi-purpose indoor arena in Bercy seating up to about 20,300, built into a grass-covered pyramid, used for concerts, sport and large events.
Allianz Riviera
Theatre, arena & venue
Nice football stadium with a translucent wave-shaped roof, home to OGC Nice and used for concerts and other large events.
Aquaboulevard
Theatre, arena & venue
Indoor and outdoor water park in the 15th arrondissement, with wave pools, slides and tropical-style planting, hired through its own professional booking service for shoots and events.
Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans
Theatre, arena & venue
Motor racing circuit combining a permanent track with closed public roads, pit lane and garages, grandstands, control tower and a museum on the same site.
Futuroscope
Theatre, arena & venue
Multimedia theme park north of Poitiers built around futuristic pavilions and a lake, with cinema domes and landscaped outdoor sets, offering seminar and private event hire outside opening hours.
Halle aux Toiles
Theatre, arena & venue
Municipal hall in central Rouen used for fairs, concerts and exhibitions, with a large clear span room, gallery level and street frontage near the old market.
Halle de La Machine
Theatre, arena & venue
Large hangar on the former Montaudran airfield holding street theatre machines, with a wide clear span hall, workshops and the old runway strip outside.
Le Grand Rex
Theatre, arena & venue
1932 Art Deco single-screen cinema and concert hall on Boulevard Poissonniere, with a domed starlit auditorium seating over 2,700, hired out for premieres, shows and filming.
Capacity: 2700 · Grande Salle seats 800 to 2,700; other spaces include Les Halls (800), Le Club (350), Rex Infinite (285), Rex 3 (238), Rex 5 (163), Rex 4 (122), Rex 7...
Palais Garnier
Theatre, arena & venue
19th-century opera house with a grand marble staircase, a gilded foyer and a ceiling painted by Chagall, home to the Paris Opera Ballet.
Capacity: 2000 · Public areas hold up to 2,000 people for a cocktail reception; the Grand Foyer seats up to 700 for a gala dinner. Other hireable spaces include the...
Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
Theatre, arena & venue
Paris's largest exhibition centre, eight halls totalling over 200,000 square metres beside the ring road, hired for trade shows, corporate events and filming through operator Viparis.
Piscine Molitor
Theatre, arena & venue
Art Deco outdoor and indoor swimming pool complex from 1929 in western Paris, restored as part of a hotel with the original tiled pools kept in use.
Capacity: 150 · Salons Longchamp & Auteuil and Salon Murat each hold up to 130 (theatre style); Salon Murat is 135 sqm and doubles as an urban art gallery. Le...
Puy du Fou
Theatre, arena & venue
Historical show park with a Gallo-Roman arena, a medieval fort, a reconstructed 1900 village and large open air stages with standing sets and stabling.
Stade de France
Theatre, arena & venue
National stadium in Saint-Denis seating over 80,000, built for the 1998 World Cup and used for major sport, concerts and ceremonies.
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Theatre, arena & venue
Football ground of 1931 with four separate steep stands, about 41,000 seats, players tunnels, dressing rooms, press areas and a surrounding car park.
Theatre Antique d'Orange
Theatre, arena & venue
Best-preserved Roman theatre stage wall in Europe, in Orange, with tiered stone seating for around 9,000, used every summer as the main stage of the Choregies opera festival.
Theatre Antique de Vienne
Theatre, arena & venue
Roman theatre cut into a hillside above Vienne on the Rhone, with tiered stone seating for around 7,000, used every summer as the main stage of the Jazz a Vienne festival.
Theatre des Arts, Rouen
Theatre, arena & venue
Opera house of 1962 in central Rouen with a 1,300 seat auditorium, orchestra pit, stage tower, foyers and rehearsal rooms, home of the Normandy opera and orchestra.
Vulcania
Theatre, arena & venue
Volcano-themed science park built into the Auvergne hillside near Clermont-Ferrand, with underground galleries and a crater-shaped amphitheatre, listing seminar and private event hire.
Arenes de Nimes
Theatre, arena & venue
Roman amphitheatre built around 100 AD in the centre of Nimes, seating up to 24,000 for its own ferias and concerts, with a covered arena floor usable for filming outside the events calendar.
Casino Grand Cercle, Aix-les-Bains
Theatre, arena & venue
Casino of 1849 in the spa town, with a mosaic domed gaming room, an Italian style theatre of about 900 seats and reception rooms that are hired out.
Cite de l'Espace
Theatre, arena & venue
Space-themed science centre on the eastern edge of Toulouse, with a full-size Ariane rocket outdoors, planetarium domes and simulator halls, hired out for seminars and corporate events.
La Cite, Nantes Events Center
Theatre, arena & venue
City congress centre with three auditoriums, wide foyers, glazed galleries and exhibition halls, used for conferences, concerts and trade events.
La Comedie de Clermont-Ferrand
Theatre, arena & venue
Theatre opened in 2020 inside the 1950s bus and rail station, keeping the long concrete canopy and adding two auditoriums, foyers, rehearsal rooms and workshops.
La Piscine, Musee d'Art et d'Industrie Andre Diligent
Theatre, arena & venue
1932 Art Deco municipal swimming pool in Roubaix converted into a museum, keeping its tiled pool basin, stained glass and rows of former changing cubicles as exhibition space.
Le 104 (Centquatre-Paris)
Theatre, arena & venue
Former municipal funeral parlour in northern Paris with two vast glass-roofed halls, now an arts centre with studios and space hired for events and shoots.
Capacity: 1780 · Nef Curial: 1,026 sqm plus 1,000 sqm of circulation space, seats 1,000 or holds 1,780 standing. Jardin: 420 sqm, 250 seated or 600 standing. Salle...
Le Bateau Feu
Theatre, arena & venue
A 20th century national theatre in central Dunkirk with a large main stage and backstage artist workshops, named by the regional film commission among its exceptional filming locations.
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Palais des congres, Opera de Vichy
Theatre, arena & venue
Art nouveau opera and congress building of 1901 in the spa quarter, with a gold and white auditorium, former casino rooms, glazed galleries and a park frontage.
Palais des Festivals et des Congres
Theatre, arena & venue
Cannes' seafront convention centre and home of the Cannes Film Festival, with cinema auditoriums, exhibition halls and the red-carpet staircase, hired for congresses and events year round.
Stade Marie-Marvingt (MMArena)
Theatre, arena & venue
Football stadium of 2011 seating about 25,000, with a translucent shell, unbroken seating bowl, changing rooms, press areas and hospitality lounges.
Theatre National Populaire, Villeurbanne
Theatre, arena & venue
Municipal theatre of 1934 rebuilt in 2011, with a large main auditorium, a smaller studio, scenery workshops and a brick front on the Gratte-Ciel square.
Offices, schools and public buildings in France 23
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs. All 23 on their own page.
Abbaye aux Hommes
Office, school & public building
Former Benedictine abbey whose 18th century monastic buildings house the Caen city hall, with a stone staircase, panelled halls, cloister and church alongside.
Seen in: Secrets d'Histoire
Aitre Saint-Maclou
Office, school & public building
Enclosed timber framed plague cemetery courtyard of the 16th century in Rouen, with carved galleries of skulls and tools, an inner yard and adjoining rooms.
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
Office, school & public building
Campus of more than 40 national residence halls in varied architectural styles on the southern edge of Paris, housing international students since the 1920s.
Capacity: 380 · 34-hectare campus with 47 architecturally varied buildings dating from 1925 onward, offered for professional events as well as filming; parking for...
Escal'Atlantic
Office, school & public building
Museum inside a block of the Saint-Nazaire submarine base that reconstructs the interiors of a transatlantic liner, with cabins, engine room, saloons and deck sets.
Grand Aquarium de Saint-Malo
Office, school & public building
Aquarium on the edge of Saint-Malo with ring shaped tank rooms, a walk through tunnel, a submarine ride and dark technical corridors behind the displays.
Institut Lumière
Office, school & public building
Museum in the former Lumière family home in Lyon, dedicated to Auguste and Louis Lumière and the birth of cinema, close to the site of their original factory.
Capacity: 300 · Hangar du Premier-Film: 300 sqm, seats 220 for a dinner or 300 for a cocktail reception, plus an adjoining cinema seating 269 (with 8 wheelchair...
Memorial de Caen
Office, school & public building
Museum of the Second World War built over a German command bunker, with a cleft stone facade, long exhibition galleries, an auditorium and gardens.
Memorial de Verdun
Office, school & public building
Battlefield museum rebuilt in 2016 in concrete and glass, with dark galleries, a reconstructed battlefield floor, a roof terrace and the wooded ruins of Fleury outside.
Musee de la Corse, Corte
Office, school & public building
Regional museum inside the Corte citadel, joining old barrack buildings to a 1997 gallery, with fortress courtyards, ramparts and mountain views.
Oceanopolis
Office, school & public building
Ocean science centre in Brest marina with three climate pavilions, large viewing tanks, tunnels and technical back of house areas.
Palais Fesch, musee des beaux-arts
Office, school & public building
19th century palace in central Ajaccio holding a large collection of Italian painting, with a courtyard, chapel, grand staircase and galleries over three floors.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, site Richelieu
Office, school & public building
Historic national library building in central Paris with a 19th-century domed reading room and ornate galleries, reopened after a long restoration.
Capacity: 300 · At the Richelieu site, the Salle Ovale seats up to 220 for a dinner or holds up to 300 for a cocktail reception. Other hireable spaces are the Hall...
Bibliotheque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg
Office, school & public building
Library of 1895 rebuilt inside in 2014: a stone entrance stair, a domed reading room, glazed floors around a central void and closed stacks, on place de la Republique.
Cap Sciences
Office, school & public building
Science centre inside Hangar 20, a former dockside cargo warehouse on the Garonne in Bordeaux, keeping the hangar's steel roof trusses over its exhibition floor, with halls listed to hire.
6 work spaces plus a terrace; kitchen equipment includes a service lift, large-capacity refrigerator, oven and washroom (own site).
Cinematheque de Toulouse
Office, school & public building
Film archive near the Saint-Cyprien quarter with two cinemas, a projection booth kept with 35 mm equipment, a reading room, film vaults and a brick courtyard.
Cite de l'Automobile
Office, school & public building
Mulhouse car museum built around the Schlumpf brothers' collection, with several hundred vehicles under one roof lit by rows of replica cast-iron lamp posts, its site publishing venue-hire terms.
Capacity: 1500 · Multiple hire spaces published: Espace Chefs-d'oeuvre 3,500 sqm; Salon Monaco 370 sqm (screen, speakers, wifi, video projector); Espace Course...
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
Office, school & public building
Large science museum in the Parc de la Villette built inside a converted 1960s abattoir hall, with the geodesic dome cinema La Géode standing alongside it.
Cite du design, Saint-Etienne
Office, school & public building
Design school and exhibition site in the former national arms factory, mixing 19th century workshop rows and a parade ground with a 200 m perforated aluminium hall.
Cite internationale de la gastronomie et du vin, Dijon
Office, school & public building
Dijon's former general hospital converted in 2022 into a food and wine campus, mixing 18th century wards, a chapel and courtyards with new brick and glass wings.
Ecomusee de Saint-Nazaire
Office, school & public building
Municipal museum on the old harbour covering shipbuilding, the port and the wartime destruction of the town, with displays, archive material and quayside views.
Faculte de medecine de Montpellier
Office, school & public building
Medical school founded in 1220 and housed in a former bishops palace, with a stone staircase, portrait galleries, a lecture theatre and an anatomy museum.
Lycee Gaston Monnerville
Office, school & public building
A working vocational and general secondary school in Cahors, listed by the local film office as an available shooting location for productions needing classrooms and school corridors.
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Palais Lumiere, Evian-les-Bains
Office, school & public building
Former thermal baths of 1902 on the lakefront, now an exhibition centre and library, with a glazed hall, mosaics, ironwork, a colonnade and a terrace over Lake Geneva.
Transport and infrastructure in France 20
Stations, airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, metro lines and rolling stock, including disused stretches that can be closed off for a shoot. All 20 on their own page.
Chemins de fer de la Corse
Transport & infrastructure
Metre gauge railway of about 232 km linking Ajaccio, Bastia and Calvi, with tunnels, the Vecchio viaduct, small country halts, depots and railcars.
Ecluses de Fonseranes
Transport & infrastructure
Staircase lock of 1697 on the Canal du Midi at Beziers, about 300 m long with a drop of 21 m, stone chambers, towpaths and a lock keepers house.
Gare Saint Sauveur
Transport & infrastructure
Former goods yard of a 19th-century Lille railway station, now an exhibition and events venue keeping the open shed structure and platform-level halls of the original depot.
Grand Port Maritime de Marseille
Transport & infrastructure
France's largest port, with the working container terminals and warehouses of Marseille-Fos and the historic Joliette basin, with its own published filming-permit process for productions.
Musee des phares et balises
Transport & infrastructure
Lighthouse museum in the outbuildings of the Creac'h light on Ouessant, with optics, lamps, buoys and the black and white banded tower on the cliff outside.
Passage du Gois
Transport & infrastructure
A 4.1 kilometre tidal causeway to the island of Noirmoutier that is covered by the sea twice a day, with rescue poles, mudflats and no side barriers.
Phare de Cordouan
Transport & infrastructure
Working lighthouse on a rock at the mouth of the Gironde estuary, built from 1584 with a royal apartment and chapel inside, UNESCO-listed since 2021.
Pont du Gard
Transport & infrastructure
Three tier Roman aqueduct bridge 49 m high over the Gardon, with dry stone arches, river banks, scrub covered slopes and no modern building in the frame.
Pont-canal de Briare
Transport & infrastructure
A 662 metre steel navigable aqueduct of 1896 carrying a canal over the Loire, with lamp standards, towpaths and open water on both sides.
Viaduc de Millau
Transport & infrastructure
Cable-stayed road bridge across the Tarn valley, the tallest of its kind in the world at 343 metres, carrying the A75 motorway.
Aeroport Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Transport & infrastructure
France's main international airport north of Paris, with terminals, control-tower views and airside areas that operator Groupe ADP makes available for filming through a dedicated production service.
Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme
Transport & infrastructure
Heritage steam and diesel railway running along the Somme bay between Le Crotoy, Saint-Valery-sur-Somme and Cayeux, with period stations and rolling stock.
Capacity: 115 · Two heritage trains available for private charter: Belle Époque (steam, seats up to 115) and 4 Saisons (diesel, seats up to 96). Neither train is...
Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours
Transport & infrastructure
Grand prix circuit with 4.4 km of track, pit lane and garages, grandstands, a control tower and open paddock space, hired by the day for track and vehicle work.
Cite de la Mer
Transport & infrastructure
Maritime museum inside Cherbourg's 1933 Art Deco former transatlantic liner terminal, keeping the original departure hall, with a decommissioned submarine on display and dockside harbour views.
Cite du Train
Transport & infrastructure
One of the world's largest railway museums, in Mulhouse, with locomotives and carriages under a long-span roof and a reconstructed period station platform, published as available for hire and filming.
Two covered halls of 6,000 sqm and 13,000 sqm plus 16,000 sqm of outdoor space; named filming locations include station platforms, a turntable and a...
Fort de la Bastille, Grenoble
Transport & infrastructure
Hill fort above Grenoble reached by the bubble cable car of 1934, with casemates, stair tunnels, terraces over the Isere and rooms inside the ramparts.
Musee Aeroscopia
Transport & infrastructure
Aviation museum beside the Airbus plant at Blagnac, with Concorde, Super Guppy and A300 airframes under one hall of about 7,000 m2 and aircraft parked outside.
Musee de l'Air et de l'Espace
Transport & infrastructure
Aerospace museum built around historic hangars at the edge of Paris-Le Bourget airport, with aircraft, open apron and runway views bookable through its own filming and photography service.
Pont Eiffel sur le Lot
Transport & infrastructure
A 19th century metal footbridge over the Lot river at Bouzies, on the riverside towpath through the gorge, listed as a filming location by the Lot department's film office.
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Sous-marin Espadon
Transport & infrastructure
Cold war French submarine preserved afloat in the lock of the Saint-Nazaire submarine base, with control room, torpedo room, bunks and engine spaces open inside.
Hospitals, prisons and institutions in France 15
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly. All 15 on their own page.
Château d'If
Hospital, prison & institution
16th-century island fortress off Marseille used as a state prison into the 19th century, the setting of The Count of Monte Cristo and a location in The French Connection.
Seen in: The French Connection (1971)
Capacity: 500 · 1,547 sqm of castle interior with several small rooms, 600 sqm of terraces, and a 1,700 sqm parade ground. The castle interior and terraces each hold...
Fort de Mutzig
Hospital, prison & institution
German fortress begun in 1893 and spread over 254 hectares west of Strasbourg, with armoured turrets, concrete galleries, barrack rooms, a machine hall and an underground infirmary.
Hôpital Bicêtre
Hospital, prison & institution
Large hospital complex south of Paris with historic pavilions and a tall water reservoir building, listed by AP-HP among the sites it regularly opens to film crews.
Hôpital Maritime de Berck
Hospital, prison & institution
Seafront AP-HP hospital in Berck-sur-Mer built as a 19th-century marine sanatorium, named on the AP-HP's list of hospitals that regularly welcome film shoots.
Hôpital Raymond-Poincaré
Hospital, prison & institution
Rehabilitation hospital in Garches with early 20th-century pavilion wards and gardens, one of the AP-HP sites named as regularly opened for commercial filming.
Hopital Saint-Cyr
Hospital, prison & institution
A 19th century hospital in central Villeneuve-sur-Lot, in use until 2015, with a neoclassical arcaded facade, a painted chapel, a former apothecary and wards over three floors around a wooded park.
Large lorry-accessible car park, water and electricity available on site
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Hôpital Saint-Louis
Hospital, prison & institution
Working Paris hospital built around an early 17th-century brick and stone quadrilateral courtyard, one of the AP-HP sites named as regularly hosting commercial filming.
Palais de justice de Nantes
Hospital, prison & institution
Courthouse of 2000 by Jean Nouvel on the Loire quay, a black steel box with a tall glazed hall, red lined courtrooms and long corridors.
Seen in: La Fille au bracelet (2019)
Palais de Justice Historique de Lyon
Hospital, prison & institution
24-column neoclassical courthouse on the Saone in Vieux Lyon, its listed interior including a vast public hall, still used for hearings and available for filming by arrangement with the Cour d'appel.
Prison Jacques-Cartier
Hospital, prison & institution
Disused city prison of 1903 in Rennes with a radial cell block, landings and walkways, exercise yards and a high perimeter wall, now owned by the city.
Seen in: Medecin-chef a la Sante
Tribunal de Paris
Hospital, prison & institution
Renzo Piano's 160-metre glass courthouse tower at Porte de Clichy, housing Paris's civil and criminal courts around a public hall and stacked courtroom floors, with filming possible by arrangement.
Hopital Edouard Herriot
Hospital, prison & institution
Pavilion hospital designed by Tony Garnier and opened in 1933, with brick and concrete blocks, glazed link corridors and tree lined internal streets inside the walls.
Hospices de Beaune (Hotel-Dieu)
Hospital, prison & institution
Charity hospital of 1443 with a glazed tile roof, the Room of the Poor and its curtained beds, a kitchen, pharmacy, chapel and paved timber galleried courtyard.
Seen in: La Grande Vadrouille
Hotel-Dieu Saint-Jacques, Toulouse
Hospital, prison & institution
Former pilgrim hospital on the Garonne, built in brick with long vaulted wards, a chapel, a cloistered court and a river frontage, now offices and a medical museum.
UCLy campus Saint-Paul (former Saint-Paul prison)
Hospital, prison & institution
Lyon's 19th century Saint-Paul prison converted into a university campus, keeping the radial cell wings, iron walkways, central rotunda and gatehouse.
Castles and estates in France 14
Castles, fortresses, manor houses and country estates, usually with grounds, outbuildings and period interiors in one place. All 14 on their own page.
Chateau d'Angers
Castle & estate
Ducal fortress with seventeen dark schist and limestone towers, a curtain wall walk above the Maine, chapel, royal lodging and terraced gardens in the moat.
Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau
Castle & estate
Early Renaissance chateau standing on an island in the Indre, with a straight flight staircase, furnished rooms and a landscaped park with water reflections.
Chateau de Chenonceau
Castle & estate
Chateau built across the river Cher on a bridge gallery, with vaulted 16th century kitchens, furnished galleries, two formal gardens and a farm.
Chateau de Cheverny
Castle & estate
Symmetrical 17th century chateau still lived in by the same family, with fully furnished period rooms, formal gardens, kennels and a large park.
Chateau de Valencay
Castle & estate
Renaissance and classical chateau once owned by Talleyrand, with Empire and Restoration furnished rooms, large service kitchens and a wooded park.
Chateau de Villandry
Castle & estate
Renaissance chateau known for its terraced formal gardens, with an ornamental kitchen garden, water garden, maze and 18th century interiors.
Chateau du Plessis-Bourre
Castle & estate
Late 15th century moated chateau reached by a long stone bridge, with a drawbridge, painted coffered ceiling, guardroom and unaltered exterior.
Seen in: Peau d'Ane (1970)
Chateau Royal de Blois
Castle & estate
Four wings in four architectural styles around one courtyard, with furnished apartments, painted wall decoration and a view over the Loire, owned and run by the city of Blois.
Seen in: Jeanne d'Arc (Luc Besson), La Princesse de Montpensier, Secrets d'Histoire, Des racines et des ailes
Citadelle de Calvi
Castle & estate
Genoese citadel on a rock above the harbour, with ramparts, bastions, a governors palace, narrow lanes inside the walls and views over the bay and the Balagne.
Domaine national de Chambord
Castle & estate
Renaissance royal chateau with a double helix staircase, terraced roofscape and open state rooms, set in a walled estate of 5,440 hectares of forest, meadow and canals.
Seen in: Coeurs vaillants (2020), Junga (2018)
Fort la Latte
Castle & estate
Coastal fortress on a rock spur near Cap Frehel, reached by two drawbridges, with a round keep, curtain walls, a cannonball oven and cliff exteriors.
Seen in: The Vikings (1958), Les Trois Mousquetaires (1948), Le Parfum de la dame en noir (1931), L'Epervier
Forteresse Royale de Chinon
Castle & estate
Medieval hilltop fortress above the Vienne with curtain walls, three baileys, towers and undercrofts, run by the Indre-et-Loire department.
Chateau de Joux
Castle & estate
Fortress rebuilt by Vauban on a rock above the Doubs gorge, with five walled enclosures, a keep, drawbridges, cells used as a state prison and a 120 m well.
Cite de Carcassonne
Castle & estate
Double walled medieval town with 52 towers, a castle keep, lists between the ramparts and cobbled lanes, managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux.
Seen in: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
Film studios and backlots in France 14
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them. All 14 on their own page.
Cité du Cinéma (Studios de Paris)
Studio & backlot
Studio campus in a converted riverside power station with sound stages, workshops and offices around a monumental glass-roofed nave.
Seen in: Lucy, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Nine sound stages from 6,506 to 22,271 sq ft (largest Stage 5, 201 x 111 ft, about 2,070 m2) with 47 to 52.5 ft to the grid; offices, artist green...
Studios de la Victorine
Studio & backlot
Film studios founded in 1919 in a walled park in Nice and run directly by the city since 2017, with eleven stages, workshops and an outdoor lot.
Seen in: Les Enfants du Paradis, Day for Night
Ciclic Animation
Studio & backlot
Animation studio and residency centre run by the regional film agency at Vendome, with shooting rooms for stop motion and drawn animation and post-production facilities.
Le Fresnoy
Studio & backlot
A national contemporary art school in Tourcoing built inside a former early 20th century entertainment complex, with production studios under a large suspended roof and rentable spaces for private events.
Production studios, a cinema, a restaurant, rooftop access, rooms available for private hire
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Les Studios de Saint-Menet
Studio & backlot
A former chocolate factory in Marseille's Saint-Menet district converted into roughly 30,000 square metres of sound stages, office space and three usable rooftop terraces across three buildings.
A former chocolate factory offering close to 30,000 m2 of floor area over several levels: building A, the former production hall, 21,700 m2 over 4...
Pôle Pixel
Studio & backlot
A creative-industries hub in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, combining a green screen studio and lighting stages with shared offices, co-working space and casting areas for film, animation and digital production.
Seen in: Studio 24, the site's original soundstage founded in 2002 by Roger Planchon, also hosts rehearsals for the Opéra de Lyon
Studio 24: a modular soundproofed stage of 900 sqm; Lumière 1 and 2 (added 2009): combined shooting surface of over 2,000 sqm with 700 sqm of dressing...
Provence Studios
Studio & backlot
A studio complex on 22 hectares near Martigues with sixteen sound stages up to 2,400 square metres, two 18,000 square metre backlots and ready-built prison, police station and courtroom sets.
Seen in: Titane, The Serpent Queen, Gaston Lagaffe
Over 15 stages across 26,000 m2 of studio space on a 22-hectare site, listed as 17 modular stages. Studio M07 2,450 m2 (49.51 x 33.10 m, 9.20 m...
Studio 24
Studio & backlot
Shooting and rehearsal stage in Villeurbanne used for film and television work, also hired for rehearsals and live performances, on the eastern edge of Lyon.
Studio de Tourcoing
Studio & backlot
A single soundproofed stage in Tourcoing, near Lille, run by lighting and studio rental group Transpa and fitted out with an in-house DIT and data lab for on-set post-production.
One stage of 500 sqm equipped with a DATALAB DIT service.
Studios d'Épinay
Studio & backlot
A four-stage soundstage complex on the site of the former Éclair film laboratories in Épinay-sur-Seine, now owned by TSF, with stage ceiling heights of up to 15 metres.
Seen in: Le Grand Bleu, La Reine Margot, Amour, The Substance
Plateau F: 1,500 sqm (42.35m x 32.40m); Plateau C: 800 sqm (36.60m x 23.85m); Plateau D: 800 sqm (39m x 16.30m); Plateau E: 200 sqm (18.35m x 11.50m);...
Studios de Bry
Studio & backlot
A large multi-stage production complex east of Paris, built by SFP in the late 1970s and 1980s and now run by Transpalux, with workshops and offices for feature films and television drama.
Seen in: Babylon A.D., Colombiana, Les Rivières pourpres 2, L'Odeur de la papaye verte
Stage B1: 1,000 sqm; B2: 700 sqm; B3: 700 sqm; Neo B4: 300 sqm; B5: 1,100 sqm; B6: 900 sqm; B10: 350 sqm (above B4); carpentry workshop 450 sqm; paint...
Studios de France
Studio & backlot
A television production group operating soundstages at three sites in Paris and Saint-Denis, used for game shows, entertainment formats and drama for French broadcasters.
Seen in: Star Academy, La France a un Incroyable Talent
Capacity: 2000 · Stages across three Paris sites, listed from 135 m2 to 2,000 m2: Studio 217 is 2,000 m2 (35.40 x 54.30 m, 14 m usable height, ERP audience limit...
Studios SETS
Studio & backlot
A production complex created in 1982 in Stains, just north of Saint-Denis, with soundproofed stages up to 800 sqm, a built-in tank stage and set-building workshops.
Seen in: Le Routard, Ad Vitam, De l'autre côté du périph
Studio 800A: 800 sqm, 8m ceiling; Studio 800B: 800 sqm, soundproofed, 9m ceiling, with a 2.3m deep pool built in; Studio 500A: 500 sqm, soundproofed,...
TSF Studios d'Aquitaine
Studio & backlot
A 400 square metre studio building run by a film equipment rental company in Bègles, in the Bordeaux metropolitan area, listed by the regional film commission for shoots needing a single controllable space.
A 400 m2 stage (Plateau 400) with a three-sided cyclorama and a motorised grid, plus a set-design workshop, actors' dressing rooms, production offices...
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Houses and apartments in France 12
Private houses, villas, apartments and period interiors available for filming, from workers' housing to architect-designed homes. All 12 on their own page.
Chateau de Bouges
House & apartment
Compact 18th century country house with intact period furnishing, service quarters, stables and outbuildings, set in a park and kitchen garden in the Berry countryside.
Chateau du Clos Luce
House & apartment
Brick and tufa manor house where Leonardo da Vinci lived, with period bedrooms, galleries, an underground passage and a 7 hectare park with a terrace over Amboise.
Cité Radieuse, Marseille
House & apartment
Le Corbusier's 1952 concrete apartment block on stilts in Marseille, with 337 duplex units, an internal shopping street and a rooftop terrace.
Familistere de Guise
House & apartment
A 19th century workers' housing complex in Guise built by industrialist Jean-Baptiste Godin, with glazed courtyards and communal apartment wings, now a museum that also hosts corporate events.
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Gratte-Ciel de Villeurbanne
House & apartment
Municipal high rise district of 1934: two rows of stepped brick and concrete housing blocks along a straight avenue, closed by the town hall belfry and the TNP theatre.
Maison de George Sand
House & apartment
The writer's country house at Nohant with furnished 19th century rooms, a private theatre and puppet theatre, garden and farm buildings.
Seen in: Secrets d'Histoire, Une maison un ecrivain
Manoir de Kernault
House & apartment
Late medieval Breton manor house at Mellac with a granite main building, a raised stone granary on pillars, farm buildings, orchards and a 30 hectare estate.
Villa Demoiselle
House & apartment
Art nouveau villa of 1904 next to the Pommery cellars, restored with period furniture, stained glass, mosaics, a main staircase and a walled garden.
Villa Les Roches Brunes
House & apartment
Belle Epoque seaside villa of 1893 on the Pointe du Moulinet at Dinard, owned by the town, with panelled reception rooms, a veranda and terraces above the sea.
Villa Majorelle
House & apartment
Art nouveau house of 1901 by Henri Sauvage, reopened in 2020 with original woodwork, stained glass, ceramic fireplaces, fitted furniture and a small garden.
Villa Savoye
House & apartment
Le Corbusier's white 1931 villa in Poissy raised on thin pilotis, with ribbon windows, a roof garden and a spiral ramp, managed as a national monument.
Capacity: 450 · Interior capacity up to 70 people; garden/exterior capacity up to 450.
Cité Frugès
House & apartment
Estate of concrete houses built by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in Pessac in 1926 in flat-roofed cubic and terraced forms, UNESCO-listed since 2016.
Churches and monasteries in France 10
Cathedrals, churches, chapels, monasteries and cloisters, plus the crypts and refectories behind them. All 10 on their own page.
Abbaye de Beauport
Church & monastery
Ruined 13th century abbey on the shore near Paimpol with a roofless church, vaulted cellar, chapter house, refectory over the sea and salt marsh grounds.
Abbaye de Daoulas
Church & monastery
Romanesque abbey at Daoulas with a 12th century cloister, church, fountain and a walled medicinal plant garden on a sloping site.
Abbaye de Saint-Michel-en-Thierache
Church & monastery
A Benedictine abbey founded in 945 in Saint-Michel-en-Thierache, rebuilt several times, with a 17th century baroque facade, a central cloister, an abbey church, a chapter house and a refectory.
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Abbaye du Mont-Saint-Michel
Church & monastery
Abbey stacked on a tidal rock, with a Romanesque nave, Gothic cloister and refectory, crypts, undercrofts and a treadwheel, above the bay sands.
Abbaye du Relec
Church & monastery
Cistercian abbey in the Monts d'Arree with a plain 12th century church, ponds, mill and open moorland around the monastic buildings.
Chartreuse de Neuville
Church & monastery
A former Carthusian monastery near Montreuil-sur-Mer, restored around cloistered gardens, run by an association that rents out its halls for events alongside its heritage and cultural programme.
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Abbaye de Fontenay
Church & monastery
Cistercian abbey founded in 1118 in a wooded valley, with a plain unlit church, cloister, dormitory, forge, bakehouse and gardens, and no modern building in view.
Seen in: Angelique marquise des anges, Cyrano de Bergerac, L'Enfant des loups, La Marquise des ombres
Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud
Church & monastery
Former royal abbey near Chinon founded in 1101, with a Romanesque church, medieval kitchens and cloisters plus an on-site hotel, its own site publishing information for film and TV shoots.
Couvent du Pouy
Church & monastery
A 19th century convent on the edge of Dax, empty for over a decade, with a chapel, cloister galleries around a courtyard garden, and rooms and offices on three floors, listed by the regional film commission.
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Couvent Sainte-Marie de La Tourette
Church & monastery
Dominican priory finished by Le Corbusier in 1960 on a slope near Lyon, with raw concrete cells on pilotis, a bare church, ramped cloisters and coloured light wells.
Villages and countryside in France 8
Villages, farmland, meadows and rural roads: open country with somewhere to put a unit base. All 8 on their own page.
Alignements de Carnac
Village & countryside
Neolithic standing stone rows spread over several kilometres of heath and pasture at Carnac, with long straight alignments, enclosures and open sky.
Ecomusee d'Alsace
Village & countryside
Open air museum built from about seventy relocated Alsatian farmhouses, with lanes, a chapel, workshops, a mill and farmyards that together read as a complete pre-industrial village.
Haras National de Lamballe
Village & countryside
State stud farm founded in 1825 in a former army barracks in Lamballe, with stone stable blocks around a courtyard and a riding arena, its own site listing hire for weddings and seminars.
Haras National du Pin
Village & countryside
France's oldest national stud, an 18th-century complex of stables around a formal chateau-style courtyard in the Orne countryside, with an equestrian arena and grounds listed for seminar hire.
Chateau l'Hospitalet
Village & countryside
Wine estate on the La Clape massif near Narbonne, with vineyards, cellars, a hotel and restaurants around a courtyard, hosting its own annual jazz festival and grounds used for private events.
Chateau La Coste
Village & countryside
Organic vineyard estate near Aix-en-Provence with a sculpture trail and pavilions by architects including Tadao Ando and Renzo Piano, a hotel and restaurant, and grounds hired for weddings.
Parc naturel regional de Briere
Village & countryside
Regional park of marshland, reed beds and canals north of Saint-Nazaire, with thatched villages, flat bottomed punts, open water and long horizons.
Parc naturel régional de Camargue
Village & countryside
Rhône delta wetland reserve of lagoons, salt pans and marshland grazed by black bulls and white horses, managed as a regional nature park.
Modern architecture in France 8
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete. All 8 on their own page.
Centre Pompidou-Metz
Modern architecture
Museum of 2010 under a woven timber roof, with three tubular galleries stacked over a tall glazed forum and terraces facing the railway station quarter.
La Défense
Modern architecture
Purpose-built business district west of Paris with high-rise office towers, an elevated pedestrian esplanade and the Grande Arche at its western end.
Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection
Modern architecture
Former 19th-century grain exchange with a circular rotunda and glass dome, renovated by Tadao Ando with an internal concrete cylinder as a contemporary art museum.
Capacity: 800 · Ground-floor Salon and Passage (up to 800 for a cocktail reception or 220 for a seated dinner), Foyer on floor -1 (up to 300 for a cocktail...
Cité de la Mode et du Design
Modern architecture
Former riverside customs warehouse on the Seine reclad in a green glass and steel skin, housing a design school, offices, a club and event floors over the water.
La Cite du Vin
Modern architecture
Twisting glass and aluminium tower on Bordeaux's Garonne quays, built around a wine museum and a top-floor tasting room, with function spaces used for private events and film screenings.
MuCEM
Modern architecture
Marseille museum in a concrete cube wrapped in a black lattice screen, linked by a footbridge to the 13th-century Fort Saint-Jean at the harbour entrance.
Musee des Confluences
Modern architecture
Steel and glass museum at the point where the Rhone meets the Saone, with a raised plinth, angular ramps, a tall crystal hall and dark windowless galleries.
Site Le Corbusier, Firminy
Modern architecture
Le Corbusier's Firminy-Vert complex, completed after his death, with a raw-concrete Unite d'habitation apartment block, a stadium and a church, its visitor centre offering room hire for seminars.
Hotels and interiors in France 8
Hotels, spas and their lobbies, ballrooms, bars and corridors, including closed or seasonal properties that can take over a whole unit. All 8 on their own page.
Hotel Barriere L'Hermitage La Baule
Hotel & interiors
Anglo-Norman seafront hotel of 1926 on the bay of La Baule, with a long facade, formal lounges, ballroom, spa and direct access to the beach.
Hotel Barriere Le Royal Deauville
Hotel & interiors
Grand resort hotel of 1913 near the Deauville boardwalk, with a symmetrical facade, marble lobby, ballroom, restaurants and sea facing rooms.
Hotel Royal, Evian Resort
Hotel & interiors
Palace hotel of 1909 on a hill above Lake Geneva, with painted salons, a long terrace, a ballroom, spa floors and grounds shared with a golf course.
InterContinental Lyon - Hotel Dieu
Hotel & interiors
Hotel inside Lyon's former 18th century hospital, with a 32 m domed hall, long vaulted corridors, a chapel, inner courtyards and a river facade on the Rhone.
Le Grand Hotel Barriere Dinard
Hotel & interiors
Late 19th century resort hotel above the Ecluse beach at Dinard, with a white rendered facade, sea facing lounges, bar, restaurant and meeting rooms.
Le Grand Hôtel Cabourg
Hotel & interiors
Belle Époque seafront hotel in Cabourg that inspired Marcel Proust's Grand Hôtel de Balbec, with period public rooms overlooking the beach.
Les Fermes de Marie
Hotel & interiors
Alpine hotel in Megève built from reassembled 18th and 19th-century farm buildings, with a spa and chalet-style interiors furnished in reclaimed wood.
Vichy Celestins Spa Hotel
Hotel & interiors
Spa hotel on the Allier riverfront in Vichy, with thermal pools, treatment floors, a restaurant, lounges and rooms looking over the park and the lake.
Bars, restaurants and shops in France 5
Cafes, bars, restaurants, markets, shops and shopping streets, the everyday interiors a schedule eats through quickly. Bars, restaurants and shops across Europe.
Le Train Bleu
Bar, restaurant & shop
Belle Époque restaurant inside Gare de Lyon station, listed as a historic monument since 1972, with gilded ceilings and large painted murals of French regions.
Seen in: La Femme Nikita (1990), Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007), Micmacs (2009), Place Vendôme (1998)
Les Deux Magots
Bar, restaurant & shop
Historic Saint-Germain-des-Prés cafe with a covered terrace and wood-panelled interior, a literary and artist meeting place since the late 19th century.
Passage Pommeraye
Bar, restaurant & shop
Covered shopping arcade of 1843 on three levels linked by a broad staircase, with statues, wooden shopfronts and a glazed roof over the walkway.
Les Halles de Lyon Paul Bocuse
Bar, restaurant & shop
Covered food market in Lyon with about fifty stalls of butchers, cheesemongers, bakers and small restaurants, named after chef Paul Bocuse.
Capacity: 3500 · 8,000 sqm total, with two indoor terraces and one outdoor terrace. La Verrière (mezzanine) holds 50 to 300 for cocktails or seated dining; L'Espace...
Marche International de Rungis
Bar, restaurant & shop
The world's largest wholesale food market, south of Paris, with vast refrigerated halls, loading docks and pre-dawn trading floors, offering event space and press filming through its own services team.
Coast and beaches in France 2
Beaches, cliffs, harbours and coastline, including stretches that can be closed off in the off season. Coast and beaches across Europe.
Étretat Cliffs
Coast & beach
White chalk cliffs with natural arches and a freestanding needle rising above a pebble beach on the Alabaster Coast.
Seen in: Lupin
Omaha Beach
Coast & beach
Stretch of Normandy coast where American forces landed on D-Day, 6 June 1944, backed by bluffs, the American Cemetery and the Overlord Museum.
Palaces and landmarks in France 2
Palaces, state rooms and recognisable landmarks, the places an establishing shot is built around. Palaces and landmarks across Europe.
Palace of Versailles
Palace & landmark
Baroque royal palace with the Hall of Mirrors, state apartments, vast formal gardens and two smaller palaces in the park.
Seen in: Marie Antoinette (2006), Versailles (TV series)
Palais Jacques-Coeur
Palace & landmark
Flamboyant Gothic merchant's palace in central Bourges with carved facades, a courtyard, chapel, galleries and vaulted service rooms.
Mountains and wilderness in France 1
Mountains, moors, volcanic ground, glaciers and empty terrain, where access and weather decide the schedule. Mountains and wilderness across Europe.
Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
Mountains & wilderness
Alpine resort town below Mont Blanc with cable cars up to the Aiguille du Midi and nearby glaciers, a base for mountaineering and skiing since the 19th century.
Historic towns and streets in France 1
Old towns, squares and streets that can double for a period without dressing out a modern skyline. Historic towns and streets across Europe.
Cite Plantagenet, Le Mans
Historic town & street
Walled old town of Le Mans with Gallo-Roman ramparts, cobbled lanes, timber framed and Renaissance houses, staircases and a cathedral close.