m.touch travel
Cultural Adventures in France
Who we are
M.Touch Travel, offers scheduled and private guided sightseeing tours, dinner cruises, cooking courses, wine tastings, airport transfers and unique experiences for groups and individuals.
And that's not all! We offer online booking for city hotels, Chateaux hotels, villas and apartment rentals.
Let us surprise and delight you with our private car or walking tours so you can discover secret places off the beaten path and authentic places where locals like to hang out.
We focus on customer service and express this through fast response, a creative approach to trip planning, and our value orientation.
The M. Touch Difference is hands-on, hassle free travel with the goal to make your holiday an experience to remember whatever your budget.
Welcome to France!
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Birth of United France
It can be said that France became a truly centralized kingdom under Louis IX, who initiated several administrative reforms. Saint Louis supported new forms of art such as Gothic architecture; his Sainte-Chapelle became a very famous gothic building, and he is also credited for the Morgan Bible. After his conflict with King Henry III of England Louis established a cordial relation with the Plantagenet King. In 1229 the King had to struggle with a long lasting strike at the University of Paris, the Quartier Latin was strongly hit by these strikes. King Henry III of England had not yet recognized the Capetian overlordship over Aquitaine and still hoped to recover Normandy and Anjou and reform the Angevin Empire. He landed in 1232 at Saint-Malo with a massive force. Henry III's allies in Brittany and Normandy fell down because they did not dare fight their king who led the counterstrike himself. This evolved into the Saintonge War, Henry III was defeated and had to recognize Louis IX's overlordship although the King of France did not seize Aquitaine
What's On
From 11th April to 20th September,
every day, at nightfall: Lights of Chartres
Member of the association "Lighting Urban Community International", Chartres comes under spotlights and take on new dimension, offering the visitor a unique, enchanting way to experience the main highlights of the medieval town.
With a scenography by Xavier de Richemont, 24 monuments and places of interest are illuminated in colored light to the rhythm of music, including Chartres Cathedral, the Museum of Fine Arts, the historical districts and the banks of the river Eure.
Let Us Plan Your Trip
We have an extensive network of tour guides, hotels, apartments, transfer vehicles and specialty tours in France. This allows us great flexibility to custom plan any type of vacation for individuals, groups and travel agents.
We specialize in cultural travel, cooking, culinary and wine experiences, art and photography and experience that will enrich your stay.
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Paris Ile de France
From the Romans to the French Revolutionaries to Napoleon and the Belle Epoque, Paris was renowned as a center for the arts, culture and learning. Tourist come from all over the world to see its monuments and museums like the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre Museums and of course the cabarets like the Moulin Rouge. But don't forget close by the chateaux of Versailles, Monet's home in Giverny, or the great Renaissance Chateaux of Chantilly.
Provence
The sun-splashed Provencal landscape inspires a cuisine bursting with a bounty of fresh food and wine. Avignon is its center and once one of the most populated and wealthy cities in medieval Europe. Provence has been occupied since prehistory and was always a home of culture and a crossroad of civilizations. Its most dominant feature, the Palais des Papes, home to 7 Popes.
Normandy
The name is derived from the Norsemen, Vikings who arrived in their wooden-prowed boats and settled in the 9th century. In addition to visiting the D Day Beaches and Le Mont St Michel you can find a varied landscape full of half timbered houses, apple orchards, undulating grassland, and forests of beech and pine bordered by a sometimes wild and rugged coastline.
Loire Valley
The glorious valley of the Loire is renowned for its many chateaux dotted along the river, a reminder that the Loire has always attracted the great and the powerful. Storybook Chambord; the largest of them all, classic Cheverny; romantic Amboise; imposing Chaumont; and Chenoceaux straddled across the river. The fairytale turrets of Azay-le-Rideau and the Renaissance gardens of Villandry are not to be missed.
Burgundy
Castles rising from vineyards and medieval churches mark the landscape of Burgundy,the land of the good life for those who savor fine cuisine and wines in historic surroundings since Roman times. Perhaps the best time of the year to visit Burgundy is autumn. The vines are colored orange and green, and the weather is mild and breezy.
Bordeaux & the South West
Aquitaine and the West Coast of France is an immense region stretching south from Brittany to the north of the Pyrenees, and Bordeaux is its heart and center. Bordeaux is famous for its legendary vineyards, for its great chateaux, the rich historical towns of the Bordeaux countryside and the spectacular scenery.
Champagne
Champagne. part of the region Champagne-Ardenne, is only about an hour by train from Paris through lovely farms and vineyards, chateaux, typical 'champenoise' timber-framed churches and pretty villages.
French Riviera
The Cote d'Azur is one of the top resort areas in the world. It began as a health resort for ailing British tourists at the end of the 18th century. With the arrival of the railway in the mid-19th century, it became the playground and vacation spot of British, Russian, and other aristocrats