>>2887508
Is this an AI generated map? Cannes is not fucking located there, and even if it was, why the fuck highlight Cannes? Why not Marseille, Nice, Strasbourg, Toulous, Nantes? All that space and they only show 4 cities, one of which is not even in the top 10 largest? Seriously? What were they thinking?

>>2887508
Lyon Obviously
Nice
Caen if you like WW2
Rouen if you go to Caen and also like Cider and soft cow cheese.
Lille but avoid the suburbs
Clermont-Ferrand
Orleans
Reims
Strasbourg and Metz.

There's literally unlimited non-overtouristed towns in France all with their own unique regional character, probably the most underrated country on this board. Just go to any train station in Paris and head out to the first place that looks cool.

>>2887508
Lyon and Marseille obviously. The south also has some nice smaller cities like Montpellier, Avignon or Toulon. Also go somewhere in Brittany, always worth a visit.

For natural beauty, Dordogne and the area around Marseille
For a cosy downtown, Lille
For a feisty mediterean city, Montpellier
For the beach, I'd go to the atlantic coast, below bordeaux. The mediteranean is kinda meh.

>>2887508
You already answered the question in the thread name

>>2887525
Every coastline and border is wrong it's weird

>>2887508
>what are some cool french places to visit
>that aren't that tourist trap shithole
literally everything outside of Paris
maybe avoid the Côte d’Azur / French Riviera, Atlantic coast, well generally every coast south of Paris, from June to August

Normandie, Bretagne and Hauts-de-France are surprisingly empty during summer (except very few popular points)
and of course all the central regions are fine as well
some parts near (German) population centers, like Alsace, will still be busy
but even in high season it's not overtouristed like Paris

Rhone-Alpes is criminally underrated in Summer
kayaking Loire Valley is also awesome if you like being active and /out/

>>2887525
Zoomers use chatGPT instead of Google search

I'm not even jocking.

>>2887508
Not gonna answer if you can't even be bothered to find a correct image, fuck you.

Come to Aubenas, Ardèche and smoke weed with me. We have nice rivers and goat cheese too.

>>2887869
Okay I'm going. Prepare lube.

>>2887830
Nice and Cannes are pretty great if you want to chill. Monacco is also a pretty sweet day trip. I grabbed a bottle of wine and some snacks from a grocery store and sat my ass down by the round about outside the Casino Montecarlo and watched the most ridiculous super cars coming in and out all afternoon. Then hiked up to the fortress and fondled some cannons. Would do again.

>>2887918
>Nice and Cannes are pretty great if you want to chill
yeah, there's a reason why the french riviera is consistently in the most desirable / visited places in Europe in the last 100y

didn't want to discredit it
just wouldn't go there during peak summer (June, July, August)
way too busy
and you'll pay double for your accommodation (or don't find anything decent in the first place)
you can partly get around this by camping, which feels far less crowded, but there's still a peak season surcharge and it still will be comparatively full

if you don't care about the beach / going swimming, I'd go in March/April/October
otherwise go in early September or late August, usually still warm enough, but a lot less people
peak season typically ends mid August and crowds gradually slow after (French school begins like 1st September, Italian schools late August to early September and Germany ones usually somewhere in August)

Traveling to France in 2 months.
Already have the most popular landmarks planned out, I love french animation but I don't know if there's anything related to that I could see.

>>2889053
You could try the cinema museums.
Also not France, but close enough, Brussels has a comics museums

>>2889139
>cinema museums.
Thank you. Looked it up as is and already got some locations that look really good.

South and southwest
>Dordogne, Bordeaux, Pyrenees, Albi, Carcasonne, Avignon, Nîmes, Arles, Aix-en-Provence, Camargue/Aigues-Mortes

>>2889226
Carcasonne is tourist trap btw but still fun

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>>2887525
marsielles itself is a god damn shithole lol

nice is gorgeous though, skip monaco go to nice fucking monaco was a gigantic waste of time if you're not a wealth chasing richfag who wants to take pics of gaudy generic supercars and the f1 corner. i hated how steep it was.

i will come back to you one day nice, this was one of my favorite pics i took that trip. the 4 hour layover i spent there made me a francophile

imagine 1990s-2000s venice beach if it didnt have a bunch of homeless schizos

>>2889318
>25% African

No thanks

>>2889318
>marsielles itself is a god damn shithole lol
Marseille has soul and probably has more to do than Nice which is just a beach town

Any insight on the diagnale du vide? Interested in starting in Southwest France and following that line eastwards, maybe deviating off to Avignon. I am not interested in major tourist destinations as much as nice drives, walks, and scenic countryside

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>>2889391
Look into the Occitanie Rail Pass. €10/day

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>>2889348
>soul

it felt like jamaica queens or east new york, just trade some of the black people for nafris all loitering with nothing better to do.

it felt more like poverty tourism, only place i saw on my trip that had still burn marks of burnt down cars and a fucking 2002 seat with a missing radio...gf was chudding out harder than i could it felt like planet of the apes like you could tell a more advanced civilization lived here 50 years ago from the architecture but the current residents just fucked it all up

i mean look man you're welcome to go and check it out and prove me wrong but i knew something was up when it was the only stop on the cruise i was on that people actually were coming back early from

old town was okay but i basically walked from the port through old town -> palais longchamp before taking a cab to musee de moto (a highlight of the trip, wish i spoke french, pic rel was outside of it)

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>>2889462
i live in nyc and spend a ton of time in the hood...last time i saw a car radio stolen like this was 2005 in the south bronx

a fucking radio out of this thing is no more than $20 on your local classifieds and yes the window was broken for it and the harness cut off

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>>2889464
i felt like what would happen if you took a french person and dropped him off at 74th street and 37th ave in little india of queens when he was expecting sex and the city or "friends" from nyc

>>2887525
yeah, you can tell

>>2887508
I was really interested in the Beast of the Gevaudan when I was younger, lol.

Long story short, going to walk El Camino later this year. Probably starting in Madrid, taking the train to France, and walking as far as I can in the span of three to four weeks. I was thinking about doing a "reduced" version of the Camino and setting aside a few days--maybe six or seven--to travel in a more conventional sense. Was thinking about heading over to the historical Gevaudan region (or elsewhere in Languedoc/Auvergne).

Don't really know anything about that part of France, though. Anyone know if it's worth the hassle? I'm old and don't really care about La Bête anymore, but all the little hill towns I've looked at on Google in Languedoc/Auvergne seem really, REALLY fucking comfy.

Best places to visit in winter besides Paris?
Normandy and Provence seem to shut down and die in winter, and Strasbourg only has like a day's worth of stuff to do

Fuck off we're full

>>2887508
I had a lovely time in Normandy, highly recommended

>>2893425
I've lived around there for a few years, I'd say Carcassonne is an absolute must, Cévennes is beautiful and filled with gorgeous villages, that region can be pretty steep so get a good car that can handle it. Drive over Viaduc de Millau, honestly I would just drive around that area for a few days and randomly stop. Other places I liked farther West: Figeac, Rocamadour, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie, if you have time for a detour.
Also Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert and the area around it are worth a look.

>>2893453
>the frog doesn't like it when people come to his cuntry
then stop sending people to mine
immigration will continue until the frog is boiled

>>2888056
>a lot less people
Who the fuck wants to go to the beach when all the young girls have vanished and it's only fat pensioners loafing around?

>>2889464
I didn't know anyone still stole radios.

>>2889334
damn it's that low? I thought is was at least 50%

>>2889334
>>2894019
A large number of those are North Africans, who are basically Meds

Would I be huge idiot for skipping Paris, or only spending two days there?
Not even for chud reasons. I am autistic and don't like loud big cities with lots of people. I prefer small towns and sleepy cities.

>>2894040
If you want to see Africans just go to africa they are much nicer than the ones France imports. For whatever reasons France takes the worst criminals from each country. African countries dont tolerate the kinds of crimes that France encourages

Anyone been to Biarritz? I'm not that into surfing but I'm hoping I can find a poker game (I think there's 3 casinos within an hour's drive, could be wrong). Also looking for pub recommendations (idk if I should search for brassiers or bistros, none seem to have bar seating).

>>2887830
Where do French middle class people usually go for their summer vacation (in France)?

>>2894403
Coastlines

>>2894040
>I am autistic and don't like loud big cities with lots of people
As someone that likes cities and enjoys the energy of Paris I've gotta warn you, Paris feels more crowded than most big cities, especially at busy restaurants they really like to pack people in with close tables and not just in the major tourist areas. The crowds are really more like major Asian cities than anywhere else in Europe. Is there something specific you want to see in Paris?

>>2894403
Beach or mountain depending on preferences

I want to include Strasbourg in my France trip in December, but it's just far enough from the major airports(coming from US) that it's extremely annoying.
My choices are either flying into Paris and going to Strasbourg for a few days before coming back (which I hate doing), or I can fly into Frankfurt, then stop in Strasbourg on the way to Paris, but that's also annoying.
What do you recommend?

>>2895567
It's barely 2h from Paris by train, not sure why youd go to Frankfurt unless you already planned to visit

Ile-de-Brehat and surrounding coastal archipelagos in Bretagne. Underrated beaches and not too far from Paris.
Saint-Pierre-en-Auge in Normandy. Home to the best apple orchards in France (arguably) and of Calvados apple brandy.
Saumur in the Loire et Maine. Super comfy small village town in the heart of wine country.
Hendaye on the border with Euskadi. Really good surf spot and close to the northern end of the Pyrenees for top tier hiking.

The French alps are amazing. Chamonix is worth the visit just to ride up the Aiguille du Midi. The ski resorts around Chamonix are unreal. Those are some of the best views I've ever seen in my life. Annecy was beautiful. I want to go back and do a trip down the Rhone from Heidelberg to Basel and see all the smaller towns like Colmar, Riquewihr, Ribeauvillé and Sélestat. I've done Paris. It was cool. I wouldn't go back. I did a road trip through Provence and part of the Riviera. That whole area of France is incredible. If you go to Nimes and Arles in late September during the week, you can walk around the roman arenas and get the whole place to yourself. Avignon and the Pont du Gard are both amazing. I loved Cassis too.

>>2895583
The main issue is I really prefer not to have to back-track on my vacations when it comes to cities I stay the night in. I don't want to land in a city for a night, then check out for a couple days, then have to re-book with a new accommodation a few days later in same city. Call it autism but I just find it inconvenient. Traveling linearly is much more convenient and probably saves money not having to buy return tickets.
If I landed in Frankfurt I could just go from there to Strasbourg then to Paris without backtracking.
Alternatively I'm also thinking of landing in Zurich instead

>>2895597
We're not your personal planners, if you need help for transportation between major cities in a first world cunt you're a retard and there's nothing we can do about it

>>2895598
I literally did not ask for any such thing.

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>>2887508
Have you ever gone to Nice? lots of good food there and a fantastic beach there. a frenchman fucked my ass there and I had a shot of rum b the beach. There's a couple of really impressive statues and one building with an archaic perspective paint trick and a guy that takes you into his house and fucks you in his ass. this is okay because the restaurants in Nice have bidets

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Belle-Ile

>>2889462
>>2889464
Marseille has been a crime ridden place for 300 years, like Naples or Genoa. Grungy, overpopulated, Mediterranean port city
>>2889465
>kvetching over little india
There's gays hanging pride flags and manhattan cafe chains literally on the same block. You sound like a bitch

no one said Etretat or Mont St. Michel?

>>2893443
Colmar and the other fairytale towns are close to Strasbourg. and right across the border in Germany are arguably the best theme parks in the world Europa Park and Rulantica. the water park's water is heated in winter so it's awesome.

>>2895854

does not make marsielle less of a african shithole, naples was actually a lot nicer. little india is actually okay to visit considering i lived in that neighborhood for 20 years; you're right there. this felt more like the south bronx.

again you're welcome to visit, i did and it was fucking ass other than moto de musee

My family stayed at that hotel in Marseilles where the terrorist stabbed the manager and got shot by police on video kek

>>2894417
Mainly the tomb of Napoleon and the Army Museum

>>2895763
That's pretty hot.