Visitors will find variety in a segment of southeast France tucked up near the Pyrenees Mountains. France has 18 administrative regions, of which 13 belong to a contiguous European continental block.
The seemingly sleepy Occitanie area in the South of France—stretching from the lavender-studded Provence to the Pyrenees—is wrapped in acres of vineyard, sunflower meadows, and dotted with chateaux.