In your opinion, where is the Devon of Spain?

[Kurain]

And the same for France?

Where do the French and Spanish go on holiday in their respective country?

I know it’s fundamentally a dumb question to compare but I am asking nonetheless.

The Northern coast of Spain is quite popular with both Spanish and French tourists but you don't see that many Brits. Same with some of the historic northern/central towns and cities like Segovia, Salamanca etc. I think the Spanish go on holiday to all the places that are popular with British and other tourists too but because there are so many people of all nationalities in the popular resorts and in cities like Seville and Granada then they feel more international. I always feel that the northern coast has a lot of Spanish holidaymakers but it might actually be just that there aren’t many British tourists rather than that there are loads of Spanish ones if that makes sense?

I don't know about the Devon of France but I think we're the Wales. Technically not even French anyway, speak our own language with strange consonant configurations, blow up holiday cottages, terrifying close harmony male voice choirs, breathtakingly beautiful coastline, the shops are shut all the time, the two big port cities are dumps, have a lot of sheep...

Spanish friends of ours go to the Balearic Islands.

My parents' French neighbours (in France) go to Carnac in Brittany and La Baule near Nantes (those are just the names I remember, they may also go elsewhere).

We've had holidays to Le Conquet and Camaret-sur-mer in Brittany and the Ile de Batz off Roscoff, and there was a definite vibe of places like Fowey in Cornwall and Salcombe in Devon (and no Brits around either, though we were there before the schools in the UK broke up). Dinan and Quimper are gorgeous too, though not so much of the seaside yachie vibe.

@KnopkaPixie Brittany?

Spanish people head to the cooler areas in the Summer the north and or in the mountains

Corsica. Although I find it quite similar to Ireland in vibe as well with the strong Catholic influence but also all the menhirs and megaliths. Wales and the West Country are quite well looked after in the megalith and standing stone front as well though as is Brittany...
I suppose all the edge bits where the natives are a bit "Resistant" and the ground gets rocky resemble each other.

Spanish people from colder parts of Spain (and Madrid where its too hot in summer) go to the Spanish Costas, same as Brits. Maybe not same resorts (eg on Costa del Sol, Nerja and Estepona are more 'Spanish') but lots of Spaniards have 2nd homes on the coast. In France, south and west for seaside generally.

Galicia and Asturias

Ah ha, I come from Devon and I think I live in the Devon of France so I will be watching with interest!

I'm thinking that the Devon of France is Occitanie/Provence? Southern, soft, send you to sleep air, wild horses?

When I was in Ibiza , there were a lot of French and Spanish families.

There where absolutely loads of French holidaymakers around Beziers and Narbonne when we were there a few years ago. Basically the opposite end of the south coast to the Cote D'Azur, what used to be called Languedoc.

Benidorm (Old Town) was full of Spanish people in November.