Besancon

Sometimes Chesterton's 'Tremendous Trifles' make one wish to enter in his experiences (from 'the end of the world):

For some time I had been wandering in quiet streets in the curious town of Basancon, which stands like a sort of peninsula in a horse-shoe of river. You may learn from the guide books that it was the birthplace of Victor Hugo, and that it is a military station with many forts, near the French frontier. But you will not learn from guide books that the very tiles on the roofs seem to be of some quainter and more delicate colour than the tiles of all the other towns of the world; that the tiles look like the little clouds of some strange sunset, or like the lustrous scales of some strange fish. They will not tell you that in this town the eye cannot rest on anything without finding it in some way attractive and even elvish, a carved face at a street corner, a gleam of green fields through a stunted arch, or some unexpected colour fro the enamel of a spire or dome.

 I long to visit France again...