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Places worth the detour in Pays de la Loire

Detourmap lists 110 places in Pays de la Loire, France, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Loire Valley. 105 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological101 Nature9
Places
110
Oldest
Les Mousseaux tumulus 3500 BC
Little known
105 of 110
Share of France
6%

Pays de la Loire 110

All 110, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Pays de la Loire?

Loire Valley. French World Heritage Site. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Pays de la Loire?

110: 101 archaeological & historic sites and 9 nature & landscapes. 105 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 Pays de la Loire?

Les Mousseaux tumulus, dated to 3500 BC. 2 of the 110 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Pays de la Loire here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Pays de la Loire if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Pays de la Loire 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.