Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Detourmap lists 195 places in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Lascaux. 168 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 195
- Oldest
- Pont romain d'Ascain 500
- Little known
- 168 of 195
- Share of France
- 10%
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 195
The 120 best known of 195. The other 75 are on the map and on the France pages.
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6.Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley
Nature · Notable
UNESCO World Heritage Site of prehistoric decorated caves in the Vézère Valley, France
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37.Isturitz and Oxocelhaya caves
Nature · Hidden gem
Cave system in Lower Navarre, French Basque Country, France
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65.Dolmen de Saint-Fort-sur-le-Né
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Dolmen in Saint-Fort-sur-le-Né, France
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68.Roc-aux-Sorciers
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Cave and archaeological site with prehistoric art in France
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84.Site gallo-romain de Barzan
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archeological site located in Charente-Maritime, in France
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92.Réserve naturelle nationale des marais de Bruges
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Protected area in France
Elsewhere in France
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Nouvelle-Aquitaine?
Lascaux. Cave in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Nouvelle-Aquitaine?
195: 108 archaeological & historic sites and 87 nature & landscapes. 168 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Nouvelle-Aquitaine?
Pont romain d'Ascain, dated to 500. 10 of the 195 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Nouvelle-Aquitaine here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Nouvelle-Aquitaine if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a first-level division of France, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.