Aiguilles travel guide

Aiguilles photo, taken in Briancon France

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Visit Aiguilles: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Aiguilles is situated in the Hautes-Alpes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 67 km from Gap, the department capital. (General information: Aiguilles is 569 km from Paris and 781 km from the port at Calais).

Note: The photo above was taken in Briancon at 22 km from Aiguilles

Popular places to visit near Aiguilles: these include Briancon at 22 km and L'Argentiere-la-Bessee at 24 km.

Queyras is a listed 'regional natural parc' at 6km and Cirque de Viso is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 20km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

Photos taken within 10 km

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Selected places to visit and attractions near Aiguilles, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Aiguilles

photo of Nevache
Nevache 34km
photo of Embrun
Embrun 38km

See France This Way travel guides for Hautes-Alpes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Aiguilles.

Note that all distances from Aiguilles shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.

Aiguilles holidays and travel

If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Aiguilles (from booking.com and with a great selection of hotels and a best price promise).

For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in Provence and Hautes-Alpes gites and villas


Tourist attractions nearby

Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Aiguilles and wondering what to do next!

  1. National Monuments: Place Forte de Mont-Dauphin (23km) :
  2. Towns of Art and History: Briancon (22km) :
  3. Recommended Detour Town: L'Argentiere-la-Bessee (24km) :
  4. Grand Site of France: Vallee de la Claree (26km) :

Map of places to visit near Aiguilles & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Aiguilles

Canton: Aiguilles

Arrondissement: Briançon

Department: Hautes-Alpes

Region: Provence

Postcode: 05470

Distance to Aiguilles

from Gap: 67 km

from Paris: 569 km

from Calais: 781 km

from Nice: 124 km

from Bordeaux: 587 km

from Strasbourg: 428 km

* distances are direct not by road!

Place with full review on France This Way Other attractions & sights of interest

More information

We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Aiguilles): Abries, Chateau-Ville-Vieille and Molines-en-Queyras.

Getting here

Hautes-Alpes is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into Nice, Lyon or Grenoble airports. By car from the UK allow about 10 hours for the journey from Calais to here. For driving distances to Aiguilles from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Aiguilles