Enjou the splendour of the Chateau de Versailles near Paris with an evening concert of Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in the grounds – and fireworks!
Another major French spectacle takes place on 12 October 2008 with the annual professional cycle race from Paris to Tours in the Loire Valley. Starting on the outskirts of the capital the route extends over 250km (over 160 miles) and takes about 5-6 hours before arriving in the city centre of Tours.
The start of the cycling season in France is marked by the somewhat mis-named Paris-Nice race which runs from 3rd – 10th March 2013. Mis-named because although it does indeed finish in Nice it does not start in Paris. This year is pushes off from the Saint-Germain-en-Laye (78 Yvelines, Ile de France), about 20km west