The Cordouan beacon is the last to be inhabited in France and only the second, after the Tower of Hercules at La Coruña in Spain, to be added to Unesco’s World Heritage list. Cordouan was built at the ...

Online claims that the French government has offered to pay $1.2 million dollars per year for a person to staff the famous La Jument lighthouse off the coast of Brittany have spread across the ...

Two new French sites were added to the Unesco's World Heritage List on Saturday 24 July: the Cordouan lighthouse, located between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gironde estuary, and the town of Vichy, ...