Road trips through the most beautiful villages of Italy, France and Spain

locus helps you plan a driving trip between the member villages of the national "most beautiful villages" associations, with a day-by-day plan and estimated driving times. It is an independent guide, built on open data from Wikidata, Wikipedia, Wikivoyage and OpenStreetMap.

Plan a tripPick villages, a start and an end, and get a plan for each day.Suggested itineraries60 ready-made road trips to use as they are or to adapt.Explore the mapBrowse all 693 member villages by country and region.

Featured itineraries

Across the Alps: Lyon to Lake Maggiore

6 days · ~14 h driving

MountainsCastles

Western Friuli and the Prosecco hills

3 days · ~5 h 30 driving

CastlesWineRivers

Castile and León

5 days · ~12 h 55 driving

CastlesHill towns

Chinchón and Nuevo Baztán from Madrid

1 day · ~2 h 15 driving

FoodCastles

The Etruscan coast and Tuscia

4 days · ~9 h 40 driving

CoastHill townsWine

Alsace wine villages

2 days · ~1 h 55 driving

WineFood

Road trips through the most beautiful villages of Italy, France and Spain

Featured itineraries

Across the Alps: Lyon to Lake Maggiore

Western Friuli and the Prosecco hills

Castile and León

Chinchón and Nuevo Baztán from Madrid

The Etruscan coast and Tuscia

Alsace wine villages

Hill towns of Umbria

Tuscan stone villages and the Val d'Orcia

Villages of the Ligurian coast

Dolomites and South Tyrol

Southern Italy: Basilicata and Calabria

Sicily's inland villages

Perched villages of Provence and the Luberon

The Dordogne and Lot valleys

Across the Pyrenees: Basque Country to Catalonia

White villages of Andalusia

A day in Chianti from Florence

The Castelli Romani from Rome

Perched villages above Nice

Chinchón and Nuevo Baztán from Madrid

Alsace wine villages

Burgundy: hilltops, abbeys and castles

The Amalfi Coast and Cilento

Rioja wine country and northern Burgos

Langhe, Roero and Monferrato

The Comminges and the Val d'Aran

The Maestrazgo and the Matarraña

Abruzzo: the Gran Sasso and the Majella

Hill towns of the Marche

Cantabria and Asturias: coast and mountains

The Aveyron and the Tarn

Castile and León

Corsica and Sardinia

Across Extremadura

Apulia, from the Gargano to Salento

Brittany and Normandy

Mallorca: Alcúdia and Fornalutx

Lake Como: Bellano and Tremezzo

Castles of Parma and Piacenza

Fagagna, Venzone and Cividale

Pérouges and Oingt from Lyon

Gerberoy and La Roche-Guyon

Valleys of Bergamo and Brescia

Gonzaga towns of the Po plain

Romagna and the Malatesta castles

Western Friuli and the Prosecco hills

The Teramo hills and the Gran Sasso

Montefeltro and the Metauro valley

Hill towns of the southern Marche

Levante, Lunigiana and Garfagnana

Casentino and the upper Tiber

Valnerina and the Sibillini

The Etruscan coast and Tuscia

Molise and the Abruzzo parks

From the Circeo to the Sabine hills

North-east Sicily: Etna to Cefalù

Volcanoes and rivers of Auvergne

Bastides from the Tarn to Gascony

Soria and the Guadalajara highlands

Across La Mancha to Jaén

Drôme, Ardèche and the Cèze

Languedoc and Catalan Roussillon

Galicia, Sanabria and the Bierzo

Across the Alps: Lyon to Lake Maggiore

Hill villages from Provence to Liguria

Berry, Touraine and the Loire