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148 FR ANCE AND THE L OW C OUNTRIES
UNITED Harwich
Exploring France KINGDOM NORTH
SEA
France is a large country and, although it has more LONDON
M2 Ramsgate
than 66 million inhabitants, is less densely populated Canterbury
than most of its western European neighbors. Paris A23 Folkestone Dover
belongs to northern Europe, while the south is Portsmouth Brighton Dunkerque Bruges
BELGIUM
Mediterranean in climate and lifestyle. Distances Newhaven Calais Ghent
limit the amount of the country you can visit, Boulogne Lille Brussels
though train services are good and there is Englis h Channel A26
an extensive network of highways. Popular Abbeville Arras Charleroi Brussels
tourist destinations include the châteaux D643
of the Loire, the mountains of the Alps and Dieppe A28 Amiens St-Quentin Frankfurt,
Cologne
Pyrenees, historic wine-growing regions Cherbourg Le Havre LUXEMBOURG
(see pp186–7), and the resorts of the N13 Rouen A16 D1017 A1 A26 LUXEMBOURG GERMANY
Côte d’Azur. Plymouth Plymouth, Bayeux A13
Weymouth Caen Mannheim
Cork A84 D163 A4 Reims D603 A4
Roscoff N154 Charles de Gaulle Châlons-sur-Marne Metz Karlsruhe
Mont-St-Michel A28 A13 PARIS
Brest N12 St-Malo Versailles N4 Nancy N4 A4 Rhein Stuttgart
N12 Orly A26
D976
N12 Chartres Seine Strasbourg
Quimper N12 Rennes Cathedral Fontainebleau A5 Troyes A31
N24 N157 A81 A11 A5 N59 A35
N165
Lorient N137 Le Mans Orléans D606
Carnac A10 A77
Château de A6 Mulhouse
Blois
A11 Angers Chambord A31
A28
St-Nazaire Basel
Nantes A87 Loire Tours Château de Vézelay
Abbaye de A85 Chenonceau N151 Dijon A36
Gijón Besançon
Fontevraud Bourges
A83
La Roche- D347 A10 D910 Beaune Bern, Zurich
sur-Yon F R A N C E
N137 A83 Poitiers Loire A6 SWITZERLAND
Niort A20 A71 N79 Lausanne
La Rochelle A40
A10 N7 Geneva
D941
N141
Bay Angoulême Limoges Clermont- Annecy
of A10 Ferrand A89 Lyon Milan
Biscay N21 A89 A43
N10 St-Etienne A41 A43
D6089 Périgueux Dordogne A7 A48 Grenoble Turin
Bordeaux N21 Lascaux A75 A49
N122 Valence
Arcachon A63 D813
Admiring the work of local artists on the D820 D840 Rhône A51 IT AL Y
quayside at St-Tropez A20 Rodez N88 A7
A63 Garonne N106
Golfe de A65 A62 Genoa
Gascogne A9 Avignon N85
A68 Albi A75 Nîmes A51 Ligurian
Key Bayonne Toulouse Montpellier Arles A7 Nice Monaco Sea
Biarritz Aix-en- Cote d'Azur
Highway A64 Camargue Provence Provence
Pau D6113
Major road Bilbao A64 Carcassonne Marseille A8 Cannes
Lourdes A50 A57 St-Tropez
Railroad A61 Golfe du Lion Toulon
Foix Iles
Channel Tunnel Pyrenees d'Hyères
International border SP AIN Zaragoza Perpignan A9 Bastia
ANDORRA MEDITERRANEAN SEA L’Ile Rousse
Calvi Corsica
Barcelona Ajaccio Ajaccio
For keys to symbols see back flap
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