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London's Best Holiday Happenings
Finding it hard to get into the holiday spirit? A sense of the Blah Humbugs getting to you? Feel even Santa is slowing down? Ho-ho-hold on a sec—we might have just the cure for you!
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On the Town with the Royals: How to See Will and Kate—and the Queen
From glossy magazines to royal diaries, here is the best way to catch a glimpse of the royal family. As a bonus you may just find the latest hot shops or film premieres along the way.
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Normandy Art Festival: Have an Impressionist Summer!
If you love Monet and Renoir you’re in good company—these fathers of Impressionism are among the most beloved painters of all time. But who would have thought that they also made amazing road-trip buddies? Fodor's editor Robert Fisher "hit the road" with them during a recent trip to France, to savor the summer-long Impressionist Normandy Festival (June–September). ...
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The French Riviera's Modern Art Road
Apart from enhancing your UV exposure, 20th-century art is one of the main reasons to come to the French Riviera and Provence. It was here that Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, Dufy, Chagall, Cocteau, Léger, Soutine, Signac, Giacometti, Gauguin, and Van Gogh all altered the course of art history. Today, you can embark on your own voyage of discovery by exploring the Côte d'Azur's "Modern Art Road."... (More)
A Summer of Picasso
Famed as Pablo Picasso's grandest home and hallowed as his final resting place, the Château de Vauvenargues is set to open its doors to the public for the first time ever, 35 years after his death. Here's what you need to know....
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Just Back from Provence
The sunkissed south of France has always beckoned travelers, but Robert Fisher, editor of Fodor's Provence & the Côte d'Azur, recently found yet another reason to visit: the 2006 Paul Cézanne Year, a 12-month-long celebration of Provence's immortal painter. Why Provence? Sooner or later, everyone wants to make a pilgrimage to the land that inspired one of modern art's greatest painters. Blown away by Cézanne in Provence, the blockbuster show at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., I decided the time was now. I spent a week wandering through the region, and discovered that Cézanne Country is a great way to get a peek into Provence's soul. What was the Highlight of Your Trip? Aix-en-Provence. The town is packed (More)
Just Back from the French Riviera
Once upon a time, vacationers would spend a full month here, but it only took five days for Robert to be spoiled forever . . . (More)