French towns and places in France starting with P

Paimpont forest - home of the wizard Merlin in an ancient forest in Brittany

Paimpol - Brittany town

Paray-le-Monial - town in the Burgundy region

Parthenay - town in Poitou-Charentes

Pau - Aquitaine town overlooking Pyrenees

Peillon - town on the French Riviera

Penne d'Agenais - pretty Lot-et-Garonne village

Perigueux - official capital of the Dordogne department

Perouges - medieval town in the Rhone Alps, the 'Three Muscateers' with Michael York was filmed here

Perpignan - lively town in southern Languedoc Roussillon

Perros-Guirec - popular Brittany resort on the Coast of Granite Rose

Pezenas - town of Molieres, in Languedoc-Roussillon

Piana - thrilling rocky scenery in the heart of Corsica

Plessis-Bourre castle - castle in the western Loire

Poitiers - capital town of Poitou-Charentes region

Pont Croix - 'petite cité de caractere' in Brittany

Pont du Gard - astonishing Roman aquaduct

Pontigny - Burgundy town

Pontivy - Brittany town

Port Cros National Park - national park on the Mediterranean island of Port Cros

Porto Vecchio - Corsican town

Pradelles - 'most beautiful village' in the Haute-Loire department of the Auvergne

Prafrance bamboo garden - largest bamboo garden in Europe, in Languedoc

Provins - good day trip from Paris, Provins was home of a very large medieval fair

Pujols - floral hilltop village in Lot et Garonne

Puy l'Eveque - pretty town on the Lot River

Pyrenees National Park - national parc along the Spanish frontier in the Pyrenees