Morvan
The Morvan is a mountainous massif lying just to the west of the Côte d'Or escarpment in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, central-east France. It is a northerly extension of the Massif Central and is of Variscan age.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Photo: Moreau.henri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Mountain with an elevation of 684 metres
- Description: geographical feature in Burgundy, France
- Also known as: “Le Morvan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Le Télégraphe and Église Saint-Martin de Lavault-de-Frétoy.
Église Saint-Martin de Lavault-de-Frétoy
Church
Photo: Mirek237, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Église Saint-Martin de Lavault-de-Frétoy is a church, which is situated 3 km north of Morvan.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Château-Chinon and Anost.
Château-Chinon
Town
Photo: LeMorvandiau, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Château-Chinon is a commune in the Nièvre department in France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department. Historically, it was an important medieval Lordship. Château-Chinon is situated 5 km southwest of Morvan.
Anost
Village
Photo: Lormois, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Anost is a rural commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central-east France. It is located on the departmental border with Nièvre, northeast of the Haut-Folin summit and southwest of Ménessaire, a Côte-d'Or exclave. Anost is situated 8 km east of Morvan.
Saint-Hilaire-en-Morvan
Village
Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY 4.0.
Saint-Hilaire-en-Morvan is a commune in the Nièvre department in central France. Saint-Hilaire-en-Morvan is situated 8 km west of Morvan.
Morvan
- Categories: massif and landform
- Location: Nièvre, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Morvan” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Morvan”
- Bulgarian: “Морван”
- Catalan: “Morvan”
- Cebuano: “Morvan”
- Chinese: “莫尔万”
- Chinese: “莫尔旺山”
- Chinese: “莫爾旺山”
- Czech: “Morvan”
- Dutch: “Morvan”
- Esperanto: “Morvan”
- French: “massif du Morvan”
- French: “Morvan”
- French: “Morvand”
- Georgian: “მორვანი”
- German: “Morvan”
- Greek: “Μορβάν”
- Hungarian: “Morvan-hegység”
- Italian: “Morvan”
- Japanese: “モルヴァン”
- Latin: “Murvinnum”
- Luxembourgish: “Morvan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Morvan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Morvan”
- Persian: “موروان”
- Polish: “Morvan”
- Romanian: “Masivul Morvan”
- Russian: “Морван”
- Slovenian: “Morvan”
- Spanish: “Morvan”
- Ukrainian: “Морван”
- Welsh: “Morvan”
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