Alone on the sand with your eyes in the water, the dream is not always as far as one imagines! If you dream of sun and heat on a paradise beach, you do not necessarily need to fly to a paradise island or South America. TripAdvisor is unveiling the top 10 most beautiful beaches in France. One of them is necessarily near you!

The charm of French seaside resorts

Want coconut palms? Extraordinary shells? Go your way! The charm of French beaches, we owe it to wild landscapes, steep coast ... and buildings built on the sea or even on the sand.

As proof: the beaches of Corsica, Var and the Basque Coast arrive at the top of the list established by TripAdvisor. Their assets? A heavenly landscape, where nature has taken over, in Corsica and the Var. Long beaches and exceptional waves, popular with surfers on the Basque Coast ... where the charm of typical houses is no stranger to the good reputation of the beaches of Biarritz or Hendaye. On the landscape side, the beaches of Saint-Malo, Deauville, Le Touquet owe their good ranking to the pretty facilities thought by the man.Buildings in Brittany, a seaside resort full of magic of the 7th art in Deauville and beach huts emblematic in Le Touquet, to enhance the beauty of the landscape and forget the cooler temperatures.

Biarritz in n ° 1 of the most beautiful beaches of France

And that's The Cote des Basques, Biarritz beach in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, who arrives in 1st in the ranking of the most beautiful beaches in France according to TripAdvisor. In Europe, Biarritz even ranks 3 rd, and 18 th in the world!

Side surprise, we note the absence of the beaches of Nice and Etretat, yet sublime but also the lack of representation of Languedoc-Roussillon or the North of France ...

If you want to spend the holidays at the beach, or just dream, discover in our slideshow the 10 most beautiful beaches in France .