France is the most visited country in the world. It has everything that you could ever want to see on your holidays: a great city like Paris, good beaches, more monuments than any other country, lovely nature and incredible mountain scenery. France is also a very pleasant place to stay. It has good food, great wines and people enjoy their lives. And the best thing is, maybe apart from Paris, living in France does not have to be expensive. The North of France consists of the flatlands around the town of Lille and the Channel. The area will remind visitors in many ways of Belgium and the Netherlands. The Grand' Place in Lille for example is a lot like that of Brussels. All that you can see with renting a car at Paris airport for example and drive from city to city, whatever and whenever you want. France also has an advanced industrial economy and an efficient farm sector. France boasts an exceptional variety of expansive landscapes. From the north to the south, east to west, 80% of France is countryside. A wealth of contrasts and an invitation to go exploring. While the French countryside is rich and diverse, each region offers visitors a warm welcome. France has produced some of the continent's most influential writers and thinkers from Descartes and Pascal in the 17th century, to Rousseau and Voltaire in the 18th, Balzac, Baudelaire and Flaubert in the 19th and Sartre and Camus in the 20th. In the last two centuries it has given the art world the works of Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse and Braque, to name but a few. Each region of France has its own cuisine, besides of them there are also the Loire Valley cuisine, the Basque cuisine and the Roussillon cuisine, so if you travel along France you'll know each region flavors.