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THE DESTINATIONS — Collection 11

Grand Europe Destinations

Europe beyond the capitals, where landscape becomes culture.

About this collection

Grand Europe gathers regions rather than cities. What shapes these places are vineyards and mountains, coasts and villages, their cooking and the rhythms of local life handed down over generations. Their meaning does not rest on a single monument; it lies in the atmosphere that landscape, history and art de vivre produce together.

Sense of Place Each Destination Portrait starts from a single question: what makes the Sense of Place here so remarkable?
Destination Portraits
  • Switzerland — Alpine ExcellenceSwitzerland is a country of precision and mountains, and of a well-practised art of good living. Lakes, railways, grand hotels, Alpine villages and flawless landscapes add up to a place where natural beauty and man-made order appear impossible to separate. ► YouTube channel
  • Tuscany — The Art of LivingFew European images of cultivated living have proved as enduring as Tuscany. Its hills and vineyards, avenues of cypress, Renaissance towns and farmhouse cooking form a landscape in which beauty, history and the table are completely interwoven.
  • Alsace — Storybook BorderlandAlsace has the charm of a place where cultures cross. Half-timbered villages, vineyards, cathedral cities and a heritage both German and French give the region an identity that feels intimate, ornamental and firmly rooted in its place. ► YouTube channel
  • Provence — Light & LandscapeLight, fragrance and texture give Provence its character. With its lavender, its villages of stone, its markets, its hills above the Mediterranean and its olive groves, the region has become one of the most readily recognised landscapes of art and leisure in Europe.
  • Bordeaux — A Civilisation of WineBordeaux is a civilisation of terroir, not merely a wine region. Vineyards and châteaux, architecture along the river and centuries of commerce have made it one of the great landscapes of taste anywhere in the world.
  • Normandy — Coast of HeritageNormandy pairs pastoral gentleness with a powerful sense of history. Cliffs, beaches, abbeys, orchards, small fishing towns and sites of wartime history form a region in which beauty and remembrance live side by side.
  • Aquitaine & the Basque Country — Atlantic Art de VivreWhere France meets the Atlantic, Aquitaine and the Basque Country form a coastline of surf, pine forests and layered identity. The imperial elegance of Biarritz, the charm of the harbour at Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Basque villages, pintxos culture and the great dunes along the Atlantic come together in a region where French refinement and Basque character share one ocean light. ► YouTube channel
  • Occitania — Southern DepthOccitania is the deep south of France: medieval towns and Roman remains, vineyards, mountains and the influence of the Mediterranean. Older, warmer and less polished than the Riviera, its identity is rich in regional character.
  • Brittany — Atlantic CharacterBrittany meets the Atlantic with force and an air of mystery. Coasts of granite, fishing harbours, Celtic traditions, the tides and the maritime weather give the region a beauty that is dramatic and elemental, and unmistakably its own.
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Grand Europe Destinations on film

A video feature from our editors on YouTube, together with a direct enquiry to LVXVS for this collection.

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