The A10, also called L'Aquitaine, is an
Autoroute in
France, running for 549 km (341 mi) from the
A6 south of
Paris to the
A630
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Route
The road starts at th ...
at
Bordeaux. It is the longest motorway in France. It generally parallels the
N10 Route Nationale
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, but deviates significantly from the older N10 between Paris and
Tours and between
Poitiers
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and Bordeaux. The closest Routes Nationale to those sections are the
N20 from Paris to
Orléans, the N152 from Orléans to Tours, the
N11 from Poitiers to
Niort, the N150 from Niort to
Saintes, and the N137 from Saintes to Bordeaux.
All of the A10 is part of the
E-road E05; it is also part of the
E50 north of the
A11 split near
Chartres
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and the
E60 between exit 14 at
Orléans and exit 19 at
Tours. Most of the A10 is a
toll road, but it is free north of the N104, near Paris, between exits 20 and 22 in
Tours, and south of the
N10 (exit 39), near Bordeaux.
List of junctions
Exits are numbered from north to south.
External links
A10 autoroute in Saratlas
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Autoroutes in France