About locus
locus is an independent guide to the villages that belong to the national associations of Les Plus Beaux Villages de la Terre. It is not run by, endorsed by or affiliated with any of these associations. Each village page links to its official association page.
The associations
- Los Pueblos más Bonitos de España (Spain)
- Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (France)
- I Borghi più belli d'Italia (Italy)
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Data sources and licences
- Village lists: the official association websites (names and links only).
- Wikidata: coordinates, regions, population, and the sights and local foods listed on village pages (CC0).
- Wikipedia: summaries, under CC BY-SA. Each page links to its source article.
- Village descriptions and highlights: short summaries written with AI assistance, based only on the village's Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles and shared under CC BY-SA like their sources. Each village page links to the articles it draws on. Where there is no description yet, the page shows the Wikipedia summary instead. Where a text is not yet available in this language, the page shows it in English or Italian.
- Wikimedia Commons: photos; each photo is credited with its author and licence where it appears.
- Maps: OpenFreeMap, data © OpenStreetMap.
- Driving times and distances, and the road lines of the suggested itineraries: computed with OSRM from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). In the trip planner, times between places more than about 300 km apart, and for villages added since the last calculation, are estimates.