The French vote for France's most beautiful villages

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A few weeks ago, France 2, the leading public TV channel in France, held a special programme called Le village préféré des Français (The favourite village of French people). The audience was asked to elect their favourite village in each of France's 22 regions. The villages were then ranked against each others, in a nationwide top 22 most beautiful villages. 66,000 people voted. Here is the final ranking:

1. Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, Midi-Pyrénées
2. Saint-Guilhelm-le-Désert, Languedoc-Roussillon
3. Barfleur, Basse Normandie
4. Salers, Auvergne
5. Yvoire, Rhône-Alpes
6. Riquewhir, Alsace
7. Beynac-et-Cazenac, Aquitaine
8. Les Baux-de-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'azur
9. Collonges-la-Rouge, Limousin
10. Maroilles, Nord-Pas-de-Calais
11. Angles-sur-Anglin, Poitou-Charentes
12. Piana, Corse
13. Saint-Suliac, Bretagne
14. Montsoreau, Pays de la Loire
15. Baume-les-Messieurs, Franche-Comté
16. Rodemack, Lorraine
17. Gerberoy, Picardie
18. Le Bec-Hellouin, Haute Normandie
19. Essoyes, Champagne-Ardenne
20. Apremont-sur-Allier, Centre
21. Vézelay, Bourgogne
22. La Roche-Guyon, Île-de-France