The Pont du Gard, built on the Gardon River in southern France, is the tallest of the ancient Roman aqueduct bridges crisscrossing the region and also one of the best-preserved. The historical ...

PARIS — He is known as the French Banksy — or simply JR. Now the artist popular across France for large-scale projects, from photographs to graffiti and street art, wants Parisians to do something ...

Anthony Peregrine was a reporter at the Lancashire Evening Post for a decade, before he moved from north-west England to southern France. For the last 37 years, he has freelanced, specialising first ...

Say what you like about the Romans but they certainly were careless, leaving bits of themselves scattered willy-nilly across Europe. Take southern France, where they littered the place with enough ...

Four decades after the conceptual artist Christo draped the Pont Neuf with fabric, JR, a French street artist, offers his own trick of the eye. Four decades after the conceptual artist Christo draped ...

Pont du Gard, The Pont du Gard crosses the Gardon River in Remoulins, in southern France. It is part of the Nîmes aqueduct, a 50km long structure built by the Romans to carry water from a spring at ...

Visitors are finally stepping into darkness at the Pont Neuf, where French artist JR has transformed Paris’s oldest bridge into a towering artificial cavern. The installation was originally set to ...

A near-perfect replica of France’s famed Grotte Chauvet, a vast cave containing the world’s oldest prehistoric art, is to open this month in what has been hailed a masterpiece of modern ingenuity. The ...