The pearl of France’s Basque coast, Biarritz has long been a playground for European high society. Today, the town and its ...

You can walk, hike, and bike—but not drive—through these destinations that prohibit automobiles.

This story appears in the December 2024 issue of National Geographic magazine. Robert Kunzig lived in France for 12 years and returned to cover the final stages of Notre Dame’s reconstruction ...

Instead, the outcry concerned the airline changing the way it plans to reward its customers. Like most airline loyalty ...

While investigating the origin of the rings, National Geographic Explorer and photographer ... Edouard Bard of the Collège de France, who organized the carbon dating. That was the peak of the ...

The summer of 1540 was burning hot in the vine-covered hills of Burgundy, France—so hot as to be ... a wine scientist at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research.

In France, temperatures rose steadily ... A frequent contributor to National Geographic in print and online, Elizabeth Royte covers consumption and waste, food, and agriculture.

Ally, a 12-year-old golden retriever, finds joy and youthful energy again when her owners bring home Beau, a playful golden ...

The revelation that Pope Leo XIV has Louisiana Creole roots shines a light on a community of Catholics that has shaped New ...

The U.N. Ocean Conference is opening in France as pressure mounts to turn promises into action on protecting the ocean. One ...

The Spanish crown eventually ceded it to the state, and it became a national monument in 1870 ... aware of its geographic isolation on the peninsula and the inevitability of its fall.

National Geographic’s book The World’s Most Romantic ... through some of the most picturesque landscapes of Luxembourg, France, and Germany before feeding into the Rhine River.