Press and partners
Hauts Lieux is a free app with no account and no advertising. It maps more than 1,750 chapels, churches, cathedrals, abbeys, castles, sacred springs, venerated trees and places of legend, each with its history, its architecture and the legends attached to it, across 141 departments and regions of France and Europe.
- 1,750+places on the map
- 141departments and regions
- 34great stories (Compostela, Templars, Cathars, Brocéliande…)
- 6interface languages
- 0accounts to create, ads shown
Page updated on 10 October 2026.
Images of the app
Two screenshots of the online app (desktop, 10 October 2026), free to reuse to illustrate an article, credited “Hauts Lieux — hauts-lieux.com”.
Descriptions you can reuse
Three lengths, to copy as they are. Please credit Hauts Lieux and link to hauts-lieux.com.
One sentence
Hauts Lieux is a free app that puts more than 1,750 chapels, abbeys, castles, sacred springs and places of legend from France and Europe on a single map, with their history.
Short version
Hauts Lieux is a free app, with no account and no advertising, for travellers hungry for stories. Its map gathers more than 1,750 chapels, cathedrals, abbeys, castles, sacred springs, venerated trees and places of legend across France and Europe. Each page gives the place's access, history, architecture and legends; 34 long-form stories tie the places together.
Long version
Hauts Lieux is a free app, made to be read on a phone, with no account and no advertising, for travellers hungry for stories. Its map gathers more than 1,750 chapels, churches, cathedrals, abbeys, castles, sacred springs, venerated trees and places of legend, in 141 departments and regions of France and Europe. Every place has its own page: where it is, how to get there, what is known of its history and architecture, and the legends attached to it, with a freely licensed photograph whose author is always credited. Thirty-four long-form stories — Compostela, the Templars, the Cathars, Brocéliande, Joan of Arc… — tie the places on the map together. The interface comes in six languages. The pages can be read freely; deeper content is unlocked with a key. The app has a sister, Menhirs de Bretagne, devoted to megaliths.
What you may reuse
The texts of the pages and the database are protected (copyright and database right): to quote an extract, name Hauts Lieux and link to the page. Photographs come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences, with the author credited under each image; they may be reused under the terms of their own licence, not ours. The base map is © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Three ways to build a lasting link
An article is read for a few days; a link from a “things to see” page or a QR code on a sign keeps bringing visitors. Here are three free tools that work without asking us anything.
1. A link to a place, a department or a story
Every place has a page at a stable address: if its name ever changes, the old address redirects to the new one. Department pages and the great stories have their own pages too.
2. A QR code for your sign, leaflet or brochure
For the page of one particular place: open it in the app, then tap “QR code for this place”. For a department page or the home page, use this tool. Either way you download an SVG file (for print, sharp at any size) or a PNG, with the white margin the standard requires.
3. A map to embed on your website
A map of the places in your department (or of one type of place) appears on your site, in a frame. Each point leads to the place's page; an “Open the full map” link leads back to Hauts Lieux. Choose, copy the code, paste it into your page.
Contact
For information, images, interviews or partnerships: ILoad24@proton.me. We prefer to answer in writing.
Hauts Lieux has a sister app devoted to megaliths: Menhirs de Bretagne · Menhirs de France.