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.

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The associations

• Los Pueblos más Bonitos de España (Spain)
• Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (France)
• I Borghi più belli d'Italia (Italy)

Browse by country

• Spain
• France
• Italy

How the texts are written

The village summaries and descriptions, and the short notes on local food and events, are drafted with the help of AI from the village's Wikipedia and Wikivoyage articles, then checked. Each page credits the articles it draws on.

Our adapted texts, the village descriptions and highlights and the notes on local food and events, including their translations, are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence, as their Wikipedia and Wikivoyage sources are. You may reuse them: credit Locus and the articles named with each text, say if you changed it, and share your version under the same licence. The texts are provided as is, without warranty of any kind.

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 4.0. 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 4.0 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.
• Recurring events: Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, plus open data from regional and national bodies (Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, Galicia, Castellón, Marche, Umbria, Puglia, the French Ministry of Culture and DATAtourisme), each credited next to its events. Names, months and types only. The datasets: Calendario de fiestas locales, Diputación de Castellón (CC BY 4.0); Fiestas de interés turístico de Castilla-La Mancha, Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (CC BY-SA 3.0 ES); DATAtourisme, DATAtourisme and its local tourism data producers (Licence Ouverte 2.0); Calendario laboral de Galicia, Xunta de Galicia (CC BY-SA 4.0); Fiestas locales: Calendario de Fiestas de Carácter Local, Junta de Castilla y León (CC BY 4.0); Registro de fiestas de interés turístico de Castilla y León, Junta de Castilla y León (CC BY 4.0); Eventi Marche, Regione Marche (CC BY 4.0); Panorama des festivals, Ministère de la Culture (Licence Ouverte 2.0); Cosa fare in Puglia - progressivo eventi e attività, Regione Puglia (CC BY 4.0); Eventi e manifestazioni in Umbria, Regione Umbria (CC BY 4.0); Manifestazioni storiche in Umbria, Regione Umbria (CC BY 4.0).
• 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.
• Places to stay and thermal baths: OpenStreetMap, © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
• Software: MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3-Clause), Preact (MIT) and others; see the third-party licences.
• Fonts: Inter and Fraunces, under the SIL Open Font License (Inter, Fraunces).

Open data we publish

The road lines, driving times and distances, places to stay and thermal baths used by the maps and planner are derived from OpenStreetMap. We publish them as open data under the Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0: /route-lines/, /roads.json, /stays/, /thermal-points.json, /thermal-stops.json, the "stays" entries in /village-panel/. These files are the complete derived data. © OpenStreetMap contributors. Any rights in individual contents of the database are licensed under the Database Contents License.

The texts adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, with their translations, are available under CC BY-SA 4.0. The full terms for every file we publish are in data-licence.txt.