Avignon features a flower market on Saturday Mornings. Bordeaux is famous for its wines as well as for its reputation as being one of the most handsome provincial cities of France. Neighboring resorts include Monaco, Nice, Menton, Grasse and Antibes. Mediterranean location offering a spa, golf, tennis, deep-sea fishing and an archeological marine museum. Chamonix is probably Europe's most important center for serious Alpinism.
Nearby peaks are accessible by cog railway or cable car.
Golf, tennis, riding, swimming and ice-skating are all possible alternative activities to skiing. This town was once baptized the spiritual capital of Europe by the French writer and philosopher who gave it its name and was behind its early development. Today, it lies at the crossroads of European business and trade, just minutes from the Geneva-Cointrin International Airport, close to Lake Geneva and the foot of the Jura Mountains. This center for business is close to the Geneva-Cointrin airport, the TGV railroad station and the motorways to Paris, Lyon, Annecy, Chambery and Grenoble. With its mixture of traditional industry and high technology, Grenoble is France's second most important research center after Paris.