MAP - 12 getaways to discover the little-known nuggets of our heritage

Want to escape, without taking the plane?

Need to ventilate nearby?

Our journalist specializing in cultural tourism Vanessa Zhâ has selected twelve destinations for you in the four corners of France.

She unearthed little-known and unusual nuggets of our French heritage, which are worth a detour, the time of a getaway.

To make it as successful as possible, you will find in this interactive map 100 addresses: turnkey weekends to do alone, as a couple or as a group.

You will find a selection of villages and heritage sites, activities and museums, nature walks and accommodation.

More unusual destinations and hidden corners of France, steeped in history but also little stories that will make you want to move

You surely know

: Chambord, Chenonceau, Blois ... But did you know that there is also a route of "Small castles".

That of small nuggets in the shadow of the Big ones.

For example the castle of Villesavin, which served as a "construction hut" in Chambord, although it is a sublime Renaissance castle built around only four courtyards!

Does that tickle you?

To know the rest, you just have to listen to the column in podcast.

When you think of the

you immediately think of Auvergne and green spaces, but certainly not of its maze of unusual spots.

Have you ever heard of its "

" with its giant golden Buddha, its pagoda and its Vietnamese restaurants in Noyant d'Allier?

From its 22,000 m2 open-air Street Art City museum, which looks like Miami's Wynwood Walls?

The Var, St Tropez and its legendary films, it is an image of Epinal cinema.

But what if you took

for a weekend

Follow in the footsteps of the

,

or

between the Hyères peninsula and Saint-Raphaël.

Sleep in the small hotel of Pierrot le fou by JL Godard, to slip into the shoes of Anna Karina and JP Belmondo.

Did you want to take your bags for the weekend and go to other French destinations?

Here is the complete list of our podcast tours:

Toulon / Hyères-Saint Raphael: the small cinema road

La Rochelle / Angoulême: The Flow Vélo, the Véloroute

Blois: The road of small castles

Toulouse / Albi: the route of the Albigensian Bastides of the Tarn

Périgueux: The magical route of Périgord Vert

Avignon: the route of the Most Beautiful Hilltop Villages of the Luberon

Strasbourg / Colmar: the Route des Châteaux forts for families

Quimper / Brest: the lighthouse route

Le Havre: The Route of thatched cottages of the Marais-Vernier

Orleans: The Rose Route

Mills: the route of unusual spots

Besançon: the salt road and the gabelous path