Guide to France
Must See France
- Abbaye du Mont St-Michel
- Arles
- Biarritz
- Cannes
- Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Paris
- Château de Chambord
- Château de Versailles
- Chamonix
- Chateau d'If
- Eiffel Tower
- Musée Claude Monet
- Musée National Message Biblique Marc-Chagall
- Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux
- Pont d'Avignon
- Saint Malo and the North Coast
- Sarlat-La-Canéda
- Vézelay
Places in France
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A 20-minute ferry ride from Vieux Port, this 16th-century fortress-turned-prison was made infamous by Alexandre Dumas' classic work of fiction, The Count of Monte Cristo. Among the people incarcerated here were all sorts of political prisoners, the Revolutionary hero Mirabeau, the rebels of 1848 and the Communards of 1871.
Details
- tel
- 04 91 59 02 30 (info)
- tel
- 04 91 55 50 09 (booking)
Tags
- fortress, literary