Page 18 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - Provence & The Côte d'Azur

16  INTRODUCING PROVENCE Harwich
UNITED KINGDOM
Putting Provence on the Map Reading London

Provence is situated in the sun-blessed southeast Dover
corner of France, edged to the south by the Poole Portsmouth
Mediterranean. Its most illustrious stretch of Newhaven
coastline, roughly from Menton to Bandol, is also
known as the Côte d’Azur, although the nearer to Spain C h a n n e l
Italy it gets the more likely it is to be referred to as E n g l i s h
the Riviera. To the east are Italy and the Alps, to the
west, the Rhône river. The region covers an area Dieppe
of over 30,000 sq km (18,650 sq miles) with Cherbourg Le Havre
a population of about 4.9 million. Rouen
Plymouth, Plymouth,
Ireland Weymouth
Caen
Roscoff
Brest St-Malo
Alençon
Chartres
Rennes
Lorient Le Mans

St-
Europe NORWAY Nazaire Angers
SWEDEN Tours
Nantes Loire
NOR TH
SEA DENMARK
UNITED Gijón
KINGDOM
REP. OF
IRELAND NETHERLANDS POLAND Les Sables-
GERMANY d’Olonne Poitiers
BELGIUM
CZECH
REPUBLIC La Rochelle
SLOVAKIA
FRANCE AUSTRIA
SWITZ. HUNGARY
A TLANTIC SLOV. Limoges
OCEAN CROATIA
BOSNIA SERBIA
ITALY HERZ.
MONTEN.
KOS.
MAC.
ALBANIA
PORTUGAL Brive-la-
SP AIN GREECE Bordeaux Gaillarde
Dordogne
Arcachon
St Nazaire Plymouth, Portsmouth Garonne
Portsmouth Bay of
Biscay
Gijón
Santander
Biarritz
Key Bilbao Toulouse
Area covered by this guide Pau Tarbes
Ferry service
Airport Vitoria Pamplona
Gasteiz
Motorway
Major road Andorra
Burgos
Railway line ANDORRA
S P AIN Huesca
0 kilometres 100 Ebro
Soria
0 miles 100
Zaragoza
Lleida
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