Detourmap
Places worth the detour in Occitania
Detourmap lists 249 places in Occitania, France, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Pont du Gard. 198 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 249
- Oldest
- dolmen de la Coma Enestapera 3500 BC
- Little known
- 198 of 249
- Share of France
- 13%
Occitania 249
The 120 best known of 249. The other 129 are on the map and on the France pages.
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1.Pont du Gard
Archaeological · 1st century · Renowned
Ancient Roman aqueduct bridge that crosses the Gardon River in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France
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5.Via Domitia
Archaeological · Notable
Roman road linking Italy and Hispania through Gallia Narbonensis
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49.Alet Cathedral
Archaeological · Notable
Cathedral of the town of Alet-les-Bains in Languedoc, France
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68.Pont Ambroix
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Bridge guaranteeing the crossing of the Vidourle by the Via Domitia, Roman road that ran from Italy to Spain
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100.cave of Aurignac
Nature · Hidden gem
Prehistoric habitat from the upper paleolithic at Aurignac, Haute-Garonne, France
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102.Ambrussum
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Oppidum and Gallo-Roman agglomeration in Villetelle, Occitania, France
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103.église Saint-Pierre des Cuisines
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Church located in Haute-Garonne, in France
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105.Abbaye Sainte-Marie de Villelongue
Archaeological · 12th century · Hidden gem
Abbey located in Aude, in France
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113.Rivière souterraine de Labouiche
Nature · Hidden gem
Subterranean river in France with evidence of Paleolithic culture
Elsewhere in France
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Occitania?
Pont du Gard, 1st century. Ancient Roman aqueduct bridge that crosses the Gardon River in Vers-Pont-du-Gard, France. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Occitania?
249: 142 nature & landscapes and 107 archaeological & historic sites. 198 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 Occitania?
dolmen de la Coma Enestapera, dated to 3500 BC. 10 of the 249 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Occitania here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Occitania if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Occitania 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.