Which cities(and 1 landmark per city) would you include in this map? I need your feedback (I know I can Google, but Google is not always true to the locals’ point of view) OC

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  1. Nice map ! I would add Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Lille at least, and I would probably add towns on crossroads like Rennes, Orleans (or Tours) or Le Mans.

    As per the landmarks, here are some thoughts: wine for Bordeaux, plane for Toulouse, car for Le Mans (24h), renaissance castle for Tours or Orléans, Eiffel Tower for Paris, obviously, Lille la vieille bourse, maybe the Vélodrome for Marseille, the tour Lu or les machines de l’île for Nantes.

  2. * Missing: Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Lille, Rennes, Saint-Denis de la Reunion, Fort-de-France, Pointe-à-Pitre, Mamoudzou.
    * Already on the map: Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Toulouse, Nantes, Nice, Montpellier, Brest, Papeete, Cayenne, Ajaccio, Bastia, Noumea, Pouebo.

  3. Hello guys! I am doing a Mario style map of France and I need help with landmarks.
    I know that Doing ”Insert Place” map in the style of Mario has been around almost as long as the game itself, but I have been doing many countries in my own approach for a while now so, I need your helpwith your feedback! (Google or tripadvisor are not always true to the locals’ point of view) For example, in my[Greece](https://www.reddit.com/r/greece/comments/mcs8bj/in_honor_of_your_200_years_i_present_you_this/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) Map, I was told to include the island of [Kastellorizo](https://images.app.goo.gl/JRDVXjnhSvBaW8Xq6), which is small and located in the easternmost part, (and many google images don’t even show it!)

  4. This is kinda cool, I like it.

    For landmarks you can choose a bottle of wine for the city of Bordeaux (obviously). Maybe a warship/submarine for the city of Brest since it’s a major navy harbour.

    We’ve been heavily bombed during WWII so many landmarks have disappeared, we often rely on food to pinpoint differences between cities.

    There are also many iconic lighthouses off the west coast like [this one](https://storage.googleapis.com/yk-cdn/photos/pdp/mathieu-rivrin/avis-de-tempete-au-phare-des-pierres-noires.jpg) (pierres noires lighthouse).

  5. For Reunion Island, Saint Denis is the main town and a Vanilla Bean would be a cool symbol as that’s on this island that the fertilization has been discovered

  7. I’m glad you’re making France ! I bought a printed version of your Italy map and it’s great.

    I vote to add at least Bordeaux, Lille and Strasbourg, and maybe Tours or Angers.

  9. For the overseas you can use Papeete, Saint Denis de la Réunion, Basse-Terre or Pointe-à-Pitre, Fort-de-France and Mamoudzou

  12. For Kerguelen islands, you may add Port aux Français. Ans is there a reason why not to add French Antarctic Territory (Terre Adélie)?

  13. For French Guiana I guess you could add either a rocket or some sort of animal found in the Amazon (a jaguar?)

  16. On the road intersection south of Paris, I’d add the city of Orléans with a castle as landmark (have a look to “Castle of Chambord” or any other castle of the Loire valley).
    Looking forward to see the final result of the map

  19. For the center of France there are two main cities, ie Orléans and Tours. Orléans has a Joan of Arc statue, a lot of pretty old houses as well as a nice cathedral, and between here and Tours there are countless castles like Chambord, Cheverny, Amboise, Chenonceau… If you’re gonna include one of the two cities, castles are pretty much a given. There’s also Chartres, for which the cathedral is a no-brainer.

  20. That’s really cool!

    I’d say Eiffel Tower for Paris, a bottle of wine for Bordeaux, a menhir for Brest (or Brittany as a whole), the vielle bourse or the citadelle de Lille for Lille (or a pint of beer if you wanna be cheeky), le capitole for Toulouse, the Santa Maria cathedral for Ajaccio, and the Basilique Notre-Dame de Fourviere for Lyon

    I’d say those would be some quickly recognizable landmarks to your average French joe

  23. Lyon marked by a knife and fork .

    I don’t think Pau in the SW has been mentioned…strong ties with Eleanor of Acquitaine, Henry 11 and the history of the UK when she attached a quarter of France to the British crown.

  24. Suggestions for South-West part:

    * Bordeaux (wine bottle), already suggested

    * Toulouse (airliner), already suggested

    * Arcachon (oyster)

    * Biarritz (surfboard)

    There are other cities of interest, but they wouldn’t fit according to the scale of the map.

  27. I already know and follow your work OP and I’m delighted to see you’re working on a map of my home country. I guess others already provided mostly comprehensive answers yet maybe Angers would be an interesting pick to have (a city between Nantes and Tours). It’s not the biggest (17th city or so in terms of inhabitants) but it has often topped the charts in terms of quality of life among France’s biggest cities. Should you need to use something representative for it, a leaf would be perfect as Angers is home of many horticultural and plant-related companies and as such hosts Europe’s competitiveness cluster on plants (named Vegepolys).

  28. It is missing Bordeaux in the South-West, you could add a bottle of wine or le “Miroir d’Eau” one of its famous landmark.
    As for Toulouse there is the Place du Capitole, la basilique St-Sernin or maybe a plane since Airbus is located there.

  34. Great start !

    It’s nice that you included overseas France in your mix though in this regard I would perhaps divide the regions in coherent groups as it isn’t easy even for a French person to tell everything apart (especially for those lone dots next to French Guyana): Hence I would cut things in the three main administrative groups and then again in sub-groups reflecting the [administrative status](http://librecours.eu.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article204) of the islands. (You would have 13 subgroups within three main groups rather than 22 unindentifiable blocks):

    Departments: Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, French Guyana (Space rockets, Jungle with gold in it), and Mayotte

    Collectivities: French Polynesia (perhaps add a mushroom on Mururoa to represent the hundreds of nuke tests that were held there) , St Martin, St Barthélémy, St Pierre and Miquelon (fishing is super important), Wallis and Futuna

    Territories: Clipperton, the TAAF, New Caledonia

    ​

    Unrelated but maybe add a single fish in front of Marseille (because a single sardine once blocked the entire port of the city)

    Good luck

  38. For Réunion Island I think it would be nice to put an active volcano, since its one of the main natural landmarks we have

  40. In terms of landmarks, Lille, up north, could use a *[terril](https://img.lemde.fr/2021/01/11/0/0/1200/800/1920/0/75/0/4a7bdde_521584903-photononstop-pns-6272016.jpg)*, an artificial hill of mining debris (mining was the big industry in that area) in the otherwise extremely flat land.

    Clermont Ferrant, right in the middle, could take an extinct volcano.

    Most cities down south have roman ruins of one form or another. Lyon has a kind old [Roman Theatre](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre_antique_de_Lyon#/media/Fichier:Lyon_-_Lugdunum_-_Th%C3%A9atre_Romain.jpg), tho could also be shown as the capital of good food.

    Brest (far West) could take some Menhirs (standing stones) but other posters have that covered already.

    The coldest parts would be the east (not north) and the mountainous regions. The northeast border with Germany has the much-mocked *Ligne Maginot* – a series of (largely underground) fortifications to defend against German invasion (Germany cheated and went through Belgium).

    The center-east (under the “armpit”) has a big-ass swamp), the *Marais Poitevin*.

    The plains south of Paris have the fancy *Chateaux de la Loire*, fancy renaissance castles (so pretty but not made for war).

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