“I propose to reduce the number of regions from 22 to XX,” read Hollande’s handout to the regional press on Monday 2 June. By the end of the day the figure 14 had replaced the Xs, clearly after some ...

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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.

One of France’s southernmost regions has breathtaking landscapes, traditional quaint towns and stretches of Mediterranean beaches with way less tourists than the capital city Paris. Occitanie is the ...