French towns and places in France starting with C

Caen - Normandy port town

Cagnes-sur-Mer - resort on the French riviera

Cahors - nice town, magnificent bridge, in the Lot department

Calanques - incredible rocky coastline near Marseille

Calvi - small town in northern Corsica, great location

Camaret - town near Pointe de Pen-Hir in western Brittany

Cambrai - town in north Calis, site of the first tank battle

Canal du Midi - world heritage site and popular holiday experience, boating on the canal

Cancale - Brittany town

Candes-Saint-Martin classified most beautiful village, Centre region south-east of Saumur

Cannes - major resort on the Cote d'Azur

Cap d'Agde - languedoc resort best known for naturism

Cap Esterel - holiday village on the Cote d'Azur

Cap Ferrat - resort on the French riviera

Cap-Frehel Brittany viewpoint

Carbonne - artists flock to the beauty of this village south of Toulouse

Carcassonne - very famous and very interesting fortified medieval fortress town

Carennac - peaceful refuge near Rocamadour

Carnac - home to many prehistoric dolmens, menhirs and standing stones

Casteljaloux - town in the Aquitaine region

Castellane - town in the Provence alps

Castelnou - most beautifum village, near the border with Spain in Languedoc Roussillon

Castres - town in the Tarn department

Cazeres - bastide town south of Toulouse

Ceret - pyreneean town where Picasso lived, with good Museum of Modern Art

Cevennes National Park - national parc in the northern Languedoc-Roussillon region

Chablis - Burgundy town

Chalon-sur-Saone - Burgundy town

Chamonix Mont-Blanc - renowned Alpine skiing resort

Chartres Cathedral - cathedral. at Chartres!

Chateau Andlau - castle in the Alsace

Chateau Chalon - classified 'most beautiful village' in Franche-Comté

Chateau-de-Murol - impressively located castle in the Auvergne

Chateau Haut-Koenigsbourg - castle in the Alsace

Chateauneuf-en-Auxois - classified 'most beautiful village' in Burgundy

Chatillon-sur-Seine - Burgundy town

Chauvigny - not one but three ruined castles in the Poitou-Charentes

Ciboure - quiet neighbour to St Jean de luz

Cirque de Moureze - strange rock formations in the Herault

Clamecy - Burgundy town

Cluny and Cluny Abbey - medieval centre of Christiendom, Burgundy

Cognac - renowned for its Cognac, also a medieval town

Collonges-la-Rouge - a 'most beautiful village' in the Limousin

Colmar - important Alsace town

Combourg - town and impressive castle in northern Brittany

Concarneau - port town of southern Brittany

Condom - town in the Gers

Conflans (Albertville) - medieval town and ski resort in the Rhone Alps

Confolens - pretty town in the Charente

Conques - do not miss this village it is magnificent!

Cordes sur Ciel - lovely hilltop perched medieval village

Cormatin - town in Burgundy

Corte - small mountain town in the heart of Corsica

Collioure - fishing port on the Mediterranean coast near the border with Spain

Cote de Granit Rose - spectacular stretch of pink granite coastline in northern Brittany

Cote Jade - coast line in Loire-Atlantique around Guerande

Cote d'Amour - coast line in Loire-Atlantique (includes Cote Sauvage)

Courchevel - Alpine ski resort, part of the Trois Vallees

Coutances - lovely Normandy cathedral

Crozon - Brittany tourist resort & peninsula

Curemonte - classified most beautiful village in Limousin