>>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.