The A10, also called L'Aquitaine, is an Autoroute in
France
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, running for 549 km (341 mi) from the A6 south of
Paris
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to the
A630
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Route
The road starts at th ...
at
Bordeaux
Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefect ...
. It is the longest motorway in France. It generally parallels the N10
Route Nationale
A ''route nationale'', or simply ''nationale'', is a class of trunk road in France. They are important roads of national significance which cross broad portions of the French territory, in contrast to departmental or communal roads which serve m ...
, but deviates significantly from the older N10 between Paris and
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...
and between Poitiers and Bordeaux. The closest Routes Nationale to those sections are the N20 from Paris to
Orléans
Orléans (;"Orleans" (US) and N11 from Poitiers to
Niort
Niort (; Poitevin: ''Niàu''; oc, Niòrt; la, Novioritum) is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department, western France. It is the prefecture of Deux-Sèvres.
The population of Niort is 58,707 (2017) and more than 177,000 people live in the ...
, the N150 from Niort to Saintes, and the N137 from Saintes to Bordeaux.
All of the A10 is part of the E-roadE05; it is also part of the E50 north of the A11 split near Chartres and the E60 between exit 14 at
Orléans
Orléans (;"Orleans" (US) and Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...
. Most of the A10 is a
toll road
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, but it is free north of the N104, near Paris, between exits 20 and 22 in
Tours
Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...