World Update IV: France/Belenux
In the heart of Western Europe, embrace the spirit of a bygone era intermingled with modern influences and attractions as you explore a plethora of sights on display — from seaside communities to urban centers, idyllic vineyards to epic mountain ranges and world-famous resort towns – all featuring stunning upgrades and visual enhancements. World Update IV: France, Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg brings improved digital elevation data and aerial imagery, high-resolution 3D photogrammetry for two of Europe’s most iconic cities, Paris and Amsterdam, and three new meticulously hand-crafted airports (Megève, Nice and Rotterdam), plus visual and logistical improvements to 100 additional airports throughout the area. Newly-added architectural elements infuse authenticity to countless procedurally-generated locations, while more than 100 famous landmarks and points of interest have received custom treatment, bringing impeccable levels of detail to the region’s most unforgettable sights – more castles and cathedrals, monuments and museums, palaces, bridges, lighthouses, dams, windmills and stadiums.
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Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral, also known as the Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres, is a Roman Catholic chur...
Windmills at Kinderdijk
The windmills at Kinderdijk are a group of 19 monumental windmills in the Alblasserwaard polder,...
Cordouan Lighthouse
Cordouan lighthouse is an active lighthouse located 7 kilometres at sea, near the mouth of the Gi...
Château de Chenonceau
The Château de Chenonceau is a French château spanning the River Cher, near the small village of...
Strasbourg Cathedral
Strasbourg Cathedral or the Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg, also known as Strasbourg Minster...
Fortified City of Carcassonne
The Fortified City of Carcassonne is a medieval citadel located in the French city of Carcassonne...
Pont de Normandie
The Pont de Normandie is a cable-stayed road bridge that spans the river Seine linking Le Havre t...
Château de Fontainebleau
The Palace of Fontainebleau or Château de Fontainebleau, located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southea...
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Douaumont Ossuary
The Douaumont ossuary is a memorial containing the skeletal remains of soldiers who died on the b...
Abbey Church of Saint-Savin
The Abbey Church of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe is a Roman Catholic church located in Saint-Savin-su...
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Amiens Cathedral
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens, or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic chu...
Basilica of Our Lady of La Salette
La Salette, a small town of 200 people about 50 miles south of Grenoble, was the site of reported...
Tour Total
Tour Total is an office skyscraper located in La Défense, Courbevoie, the high-rise business dist...
Vézelay Abbey
Vézelay Abbey is a Benedictine and Cluniac monastery in Vézelay in the east-central French depart...
Bourges Cathedral
Bourges Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located in Bourges, France. The cathedral is dedicat...
Arles Monuments
Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments is an area containing a collection of monuments in the city...
Tournai Cathedral
The Tournai Cathedral, or Cathedral of Our Lady, is a Roman Catholic church, see of the Diocese o...
Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière is a minor basilica in Lyon.
Tour Carpe Diem
The Tour Carpe Diem is a 162-metre tall skyscraper in the La Défense business district, near Pari...
Church of Our Lady, Bruges
The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium, dates mainly from the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries.
Champs-Élysées
The Avenue des Champs-Élysées is an avenue in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, 1.9 kilome...
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Pont de Wandre
The Pont de Wandre is a single-pier cable-stayed bridge carrying the N667 road across the Albert...
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Python Bridge
Python Bridge, officially known as High Bridge, is a bridge that spans the canal between Sporenbu...
Metallic tower of Fourvière
The Tour métallique de Fourvière, a landmark of Lyon, France, is a steel framework tower which be...
Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France. The Arc de...
Notre-Dame de Paris
Notre-Dame de Paris, meaning "Our Lady of Paris", referred to simply as Notre-Dame, is a medieval...
Saint-Nazaire Bridge
The Saint-Nazaire Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge spanning the Loire River and linking Saint-Naza...
Notre-Dame de la Garde
Notre-Dame de la Garde is a Catholic basilica in Marseille, France, and the city's best-known sym...
Château de Pierrefonds
The Château de Pierrefonds is a castle situated in the commune of Pierrefonds in the Oise départe...
Canadian National Vimy Memorial
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war memorial site in France dedicated to the memory of C...
Adolphe Bridge
The Adolphe Bridge is a double-decked arch bridge in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg.
Tour D2
The Tour D2 is a 171-metre tall skyscraper in the La Défense business district outside of Paris,...
Coeur Défense
Cœur Défense is an office skyscraper in La Défense, the high-rise business district west of Paris...
Cairn of Barnenez
The Cairn of Barnenez is a Neolithic monument located near Plouezoc'h, on the Kernéléhen peninsul...
Stade Vélodrome
The Stade Vélodrome, known as the Orange Vélodrome for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose st...
Engie
Engie SA is a French multinational electric utility company, headquartered in La Défense, Courbev...
Tour First
Tour First is an office skyscraper in Courbevoie, in La Défense, the business district of the Par...
Palais de Justice, Brussels
The Palace of Justice of Brussels or the Law Courts of Brussels is the most important court build...
Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg
The Château du Haut-Kœnigsbourg is a medieval castle located in the commune of Orschwiller, France.
Citadel of Lille
The Citadel of Lille is a pentagonal citadel of the city wall of Lille, in France.
Stade Pierre-Mauroy
The Stade Pierre-Mauroy is a multi-use retractable roof stadium in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France, tha...
Centre of New Industries and Technologies
The Centre of New Industries and Technologies, located in Puteaux, France, is one of the first bu...
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Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
The Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte is a Baroque French château located in Maincy, near Melun, 55 kilo...
Château de Costaérès
The Château de Costaérès is located on the island of Costaérès in the territory of the French com...
Château de Quéribus
The Château de Quéribus is a ruined castle in the commune of Cucugnan in the Aude département of...
Citadel of Namur
The Citadel or Castle of Namur is a fortress in the Walloon capital city of Namur, at the conflue...
King Baudouin Stadium
The King Baudouin Stadium is a sports ground in north-west Brussels, Belgium.
Dreyfus Tower
Dreyfus Tower, a small structure that resembles the leaning tower of Pisa, is now all that remain...
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Stade Geoffroy-Guichard
Stade Geoffroy-Guichard is a multi-purpose stadium in Saint-Étienne, France.
Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux
The Nouveau Stade de Bordeaux, currently also known as the Matmut Atlantique for sponsorship purp...
Stade de France
Stade de France is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of...
Planier Light
Planier Light is an active lighthouse on the small Île de Planier, 13 kilometres from Marseille,...
Stade de la Beaujoire
The Stade de la Beaujoire – Louis Fonteneau, mostly known as Stade de la Beaujoire, is a stadium...
Vianden Castle
Vianden Castle, located in Vianden in the north of Luxembourg, is one of the largest fortified ca...
Philips Stadion
The Philips Stadion is a football stadium in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and it is the home of PSV, a...
Johan Cruyff Arena
The Johan Cruyff Arena is the main stadium of the Dutch capital city of Amsterdam and the home st...
Dune of Pilat
The Dune of Pilat, also called Grande Dune du Pilat is the tallest sand dune in Europe.
Provinciaal Hof
The Provinciaal Hof is a Neogothical building on the market place in Bruges, Belgium.
Royal Palace of Amsterdam
The Royal Palace of Amsterdam in Amsterdam is one of three palaces in the Netherlands which are a...
Allianz Riviera
The Allianz Riviera is a multi-use stadium in Nice, France, used mostly for football matches of h...
Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans
The Saline Royale is a historical building at Arc-et-Senans in the department of Doubs, eastern F...
Perret tower (Grenoble)
The Perret tower, originally called La tour pour regarder les montagnes, is an observation tower...
Fort Napoléon des Saintes
Fort Napoléon is located on Terre-de-Haut Island, in the Îles des Saintes, Guadeloupe.
Île Vierge Lighthouse
Île Vierge is a 6-hectare islet lying 1.5 kilometres off the north-west coast of Brittany, opposi...
Place Stanislas
The Place Stanislas is a large pedestrianised square in the French city of Nancy, in the Lorraine...
Grande Arche
La Grande Arche de la Défense, also called La Grande Arche de la Fraternité, is a monument and bu...
Houtribdijk Dam
The Houtribdijk is a dam in the Netherlands, built between 1963 and 1975 as part of the Zuiderzee...
Musée Dräi Eechelen
Musée Dräi Eechelen is a museum in the Kirchberg district of Luxembourg City in the Grand Duchy o...
Phare d'Eckmühl
The Phare d'Eckmühl, also known as Point Penmarc'h Light or Saint-Pierre Light, is an active ligh...
La Cavelle Lighthouse
Located La Trinité, Martinique, La Caravelle lighthouse sits at the end of the peninsula of La Ca...
Palace of Justice Antwerp
The Palace of Justice Antwerp commonly known as the Antwerp Law Courts, De Frietzakskes, and the...
Palais des Festivals et des Congrès
The Palais des Festivals et des Congrès is a convention center in Cannes, France, the venue for t...
Fort Boyard
Fort Boyard is a fort located between the Île-d'Aix and the Île d'Oléron in the Pertuis d'Antioc...
Mudam
The Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art, abbreviated to Mudam, is a museum of modern art in Luxe...
Museum aan de Stroom
The Museum aan de Stroom is a museum located along the river Scheldt in Antwerp, Belgium.
Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo
The Panorama of the Battle of Waterloo is a rotunda in Belgium that houses a monumental panoramic...
Phare de Gatteville
Phare de Gatteville, also known as Pointe de Barfleur Light, is an active lighthouse near Gattevi...
Maasvlakte Light
Maasvlakte Light is an inactive lighthouse in Maasvlakte, an industrial area in the city of Rotte...
Maine-Montparnasse Tower
Tour Maine-Montparnasse, also commonly named Tour Montparnasse, is a 210-metre office skyscraper...
Phare du Cap Ferret
The Phare du Cap Ferret is lighthouse built on the peninsula of Cap Ferret between the Arcachon b...
Mont Aiguille
Mont Aiguille is a mountain in the Vercors Massif of the French Prealps, located 58 km south of...
Millau Viaduct
The Millau Viaduct is a multi-span cable-stayed bridge completed in 2004 across the gorge valley...
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