The much-loved French baguette, Paris’ iconic zinc rooftops and La Percée du Vin Jaune, a Jura wine festival are all in the running to be put forward for consideration in UNESCO’s 2022 list of Intangible Cultural Heritage.
President Emmanuel Macron on Friday joined calls by bakers for France's traditional baguette to be recognised as one of the world's cultural treasures on UNESCO's list of "intangible heritage".
When Audrey Azoulay, then number two at
France's National Cinema Centre, was named culture minister last year, she
barely had a public profile - she didn't even have a Twitter account.
France has a new entry to its impressive list of Unesco World Heritage sites, although it's more an extension to an existing wonder and it's actually German.
After France was awarded two new World Heritage sites at the weekend The Local has dug up some of the country’s least known gems on a list that now boasts 41. How many of these have you heard of?
A stunning replica of the 36,000 year-old Grotte Chauvet, home to the oldest figurative cave drawings in the world and an Unesco Heritage site, opened to the public at the weekend. Here's a look inside the country's latest tourist attraction.
UN cultural agency Unesco granted its prized World Heritage status to a prehistoric cave in southern France that contains the earliest known figurative drawings.
The site of ancient cave paintings in France, which are some of the world's oldest, is expected to be granted Unesco World Heritage protection this week. The cave is nearly twice as old as France's famous Lascaux grotto.
Could the famous Promenade des Anglais along the Nice seafront become the latest French landmark to join Unesco’s World Heritage list? That’s the wish of local authorities, who are said to be preparing a bid.
The UN's cultural agency said Friday it would postpone an exhibition tracing 3,500 years of relationship between the Jewish people and Israel, after Arab countries warned the show could jeopardise the peace process.
The famous Normandy landing beaches, where thousands were killed on D-Day 1944, have had their chances of becoming UNESCO World Heritage sites boosted. The effort to protect and promote them intensifies as the 70th anniversary of the landings approaches.
A French court has ruled against a decision to set up a wind farm off the picturesque northern abbey island of Mont Saint Michel which could threaten the site's UNESCO World Heritage status, a lawyer said on Thursday.
Until Wednesday, a tiny strip of land connected the rocky landmass of Mont-St-Michel to France’s mainland. But this week a tide saw the UNESCO world heritage site become an "island" again for the first time since 1879, if only for 20 minutes or so.
Authorities in charge of the Citadel of Besançon have been forced to take action to protect the UNESCO World Heritage site from wanton vandals. These hooligans are not teenage youths however but bad boy baboons.
