Michelin Green Guide France: Travel Guide

By Guides Touristiques Michelin

Book Overview

The updated Green Guide France presents this beautiful country's star-rated attractions, accompanied by regional introductions, cultural background, detailed maps and recommendations for a range of great hotels and restaurants. It's all here: snowy sharp-angled Alps, medieval castle ruins on rugged mountainsides, world-renowned wine-growing regions, charming old villages and ancient abbeys inviting exploration, historic Normandy beaches, green fields patchworked with stone walls, gastronomic delights--and cosmopolitan Paris with its iconic landmarks and museums. Michelin ensures you see the best of France. - Attractions are reviewed and rated, using Michelin's celebrated star-rating system, from the 3-star iconic, UNESCO site of Mont-St-Michel and carefully restored old town of St-Malo, to 1-star Concarneau, a bustling, walled fishing port.- Included are walk-throughs of major museums, galleries, churches and attractions; plus illustrations and floor plans to focus on highlights.- Enjoy a walking tour of the 500yr-old town of Vitr with its castle, ramparts and narrow streets. A driving tour west from Quimper to the ocean's edge shows the wild side of Brittany where rocks, waves, sky and sea all mingle in a vast seascape. A bike ride on the Voie Verte from Mauron to Questembert in Morbihan reveals a calmer landscape. Travelers discover more of a region through Michelin's walking and driving tours with comprehensive directions and maps.- Sidebars appear throughout the guide on various topics ranging from 19C science fiction author Jules Verne's hometown of Nantes to tide movement around Mont-St-Michel.- Comprehensive illustrated sections feature 21st century Brittany, its nature, art, architecture, history, culture and culinary specialties (think cr pes and buttery galettes ), all written by experts in their fields.- Detailed visitor information given for every attraction, opening hours, entry fees, tour times, phone, website.- Michelin area and city maps help visitors find their way.- Includes recommendations for great places to eat/stay for all budgets.- Michelin Green Guides feature comprehensive, concise travel information for advance trip planning and on-site decisions.Companion Publications for France: Michelin France Road and Tourist Map No. 721. The scale is 1:1,000,000 (1 inch = 15.8 miles). Michelin France Road and Tourist Atlas. (Spiral format) The scale is 1:300,000 (1 inch = 3.18 miles, 1 cm = 2 km) Includes 40 city maps. MICHELIN Guide France for carefully researched, objective recommendations to over 4000 restaurants and 2800 hotels. Anonymous inspectors use the famed Michelin star-rating system to create an extensive selection of great places to eat and stay for all budgets. Descriptive symbols and an English legend tell you all you need to know (minimal text is in the language of the country.) MICHELIN Guide Main Cities of Europe for restaurant and hotel selections for Lyon, Paris and Strasbourg. (English)For a more detailed discovery of France, check out the regional Green Guides (Alsace Lorraine Champaign, Auvergne Rhone Valley, Brittany, Burgundy Jura, Chateaux of the Loire, Dordogne Berry Limousin, French Alps, French Atlantic Coast, French Riviera, Languedoc Roussillon Tarn Gorges, Normandy, Northern France & the Paris Region, Paris, Provence and Wine Regions of France) and regional France map numbers 511-528.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2067235478
• ISBN13: 9782067235472
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Michelin Travel Publications
• Length: 708 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Dependable reference guide

I have found all Michelin products to be invaluable when planning a trip. Hotels and Restaurants are rated, and while I've run into a very few clunkers in the restaurant recommendations, I've found the recommended hotels were well described, very clean, and mainly, that I never would have known about without the Guides. Both the Green Guide and the Red Guide are dependable and useful. I highly recommend both.

A valuable resource!!

I disagree with the reviewer from Switzerland. What I love about the France guide is that Michelin allows travelers to France the freedom to hone up on everything they need to know about major sights and attractions as well as the little hidden corners of the country that real francophiles might enjoy. These are the places where you don't run in to everyone else on vacation with the same guidebook. You can break away from the crowds and still have enough information to make new discoveries. As go the hotel and restaurants, there is a nice red book called the Michelin Guide France that accompanies the Green Guide. Anyone going to France should most certainly have a copy of it - use this and eat in authentic restaurants the way only savvy locals do. Michelin provides you enough info to make your own discoveries without any surprises.

Others offer opinions, the Michelin is fact!

The London reviewer is right. Michelin's guides have acquired such authority over the years that you might say that while others offer just opinions, the Michelin is fact. Those coming to Michelin for the first time will have to learn the symbols and codes: unlike most restaurant guides, written as a series of "restaurant reviews", Michelin has almost no descriptive text at all (the little there is was a novelty introduced only 100 years after the first edition) so its rating is all the more lapidary. No qualms here about being judgmental! As a result, you may want to carry other hotel and restaurant guides with you when visiting France, but you will always, always rely on the Michelin to tell you the truth about levels of comfort and the quality of cooking. And only the Michelin offers such comprehensive coverage. If there's somewhere decent to eat in the remotest corner of Brittany or the Correze, Michelin will know. Conversely, if a town has neither hotel nor restaurant in the guide, you just don't go there, it's a simple as that. By the way, when driving around France, use Michelin road maps. Any city, town or village with a place in the guide is underlined in red, so wherever you are, when you start to feel hungry, you know where to go!One reservation as regards the London review: Michelin is not as reliable on restaurants in other countries, where you should always compare with a local guide; but you can still use it to double-check hotel standards before booking.By the way, all the ratings are on Michelin's web site - but you'll still need the book of course when travelling around.

The best reference for hotels and restaurants in France

The Red Michelin Guide for Hotels and Restaurants is without doubt the best reference guide book - not only for Parisian but also all for all other French Hotels and Restaurants. This is thanks to a qualified experience, which Michelin has accumulated in over 100 years. The original Michelin Guide for Hotels and Restaurants was originally produced in 1900 by the French tire company Michelin in order to give the chauffeur of a auto a good guide of where he could stop and relax in an an adequate way with his employer. In addition , the original Michelin guide also listed petrol stations, which were rare a the time. In fact, petrol was actually first sold in pharmacies in those very early days of the automobile. Today, the Red Michelin Guide is the reference for hotels and restaurants - not only in France, but for all other European countries. For restaurants, the most important verdict every year is, of course, the Michelin stars - it can make or break them.

You don't need anything else... except maybe the red guide..

When I travel to Europe, I never fail to get the green guide of the country I plan to go to, and the corresponding red guide. One tells me what is worth to be visited, the other advises me on restaurants and hotels. I appreciate the accuracy and I trust their star system. I feel I can trust the guides and I believe Michelin when they claim not to get any money to give stars to restaurants, hotels or cities (which is not always the feeling I get from some other guides)