France Marco Polo Map

Product Description

France at 1:800, 000 on a double-sided road map from Marco Polo Travel Publishing with prominent highlighting of interesting locations, 10 more detailed enlargements, plus an index booklet with town centre plans 18 cities, brief descriptions of 15 selected top sights, etc. The map has a good overlap between the sides & coverage extends north to Antwerp, Bruges & Ghent, north-west to Cologne to include Luxembourg & the Eifel, & within Italy past Milan to Parma & along the Italian Riviera to Pisa. Cartography is from the renowned German publishers Mair Dumont. Road network

Includes:: minor roads, highlights scenic roads & shows intermediate driving distances on main roads. Railway lines & local airports are included, as well as administrative divisions with names of the departments. Locations of interest are highlighted, with separate colouring for towns or villages & for natural sites; 15 most interesting sights are cross-referenced to their descriptions in a booklet attached to the map cover. Symbols show locations of selected campsites, youth hostels, etc. National parks & other protected areas are marked & topography is presented by relief shading. Latitude & longitude lines are drawn at 1º intervals. The index listing locations with their postcodes is in the booklet. Enlargements show in greater detail the environs of Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Nantes, Strasbourg & Toulouse, plus the French Riviera between Cannes & Nice, & Andorra. Town centres street plans cover these cities plus of Ajaccio, Avignon, Brest, Grenoble, Le Havre, Monaco/ Monte Carlo, Nîmes & Reims. In addition to the brief descriptions of 15 top sites, booklet also

Includes:: plans of the Channel Tunnel terminals in Folkestone & Calais; a list of mountain passes & tunnels indicating likely seasonal opening, suitability for caravans, etc; lists of UNESCO World Heritage sites, national parks, airports, & amusement parks. Multilingual map legend & all the text include English.A fold-out flap in the cover shows for route planning an overview of the whole area covered by the map plus the adjacent regions, prominently highlighting main places of interest, with the grid reference system in the margins making it easier to find locations on the main map. Also included are a distance/driving times table & basic driving regulations.