Amiens Cathedral travel guide
Visit Amiens Cathedral: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Amiens at 1 km from Amiens Cathedral
Location: Amiens Cathedral is situated in the Somme department (Picardy region) in the north of France at 9 km from Amiens, the department capital. (General information: Amiens Cathedral is 115 km from Paris and 122 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Amiens Cathedral: these include Amiens at 1 km and Abbeville at 40 km. Amiens Cathedral is a listed heritage site at 1 km and Le clos Alexandre is a listed remarkable garden at 1 km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
Selected places to visit and attractions near Amiens Cathedral, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Amiens Cathedral
See France This Way travel guides for Somme and Picardy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Amiens Cathedral.
Note that all distances from Amiens Cathedral shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Amiens Cathedral holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see our hotel search (from a leading hotel agent 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 Picardy and Somme gites and villas
Markets near Amiens Cathedral
- Amiens: market every Thursday & Sunday & Saturday & all day (1km)
- Corbie: market every Friday (16km)
- Moreuil: market every Tuesday (19km)
- Saint-Ouen: market every Sunday (20km)
- Poix-de-Picardie: market every Sunday (26km)
- Albert: market every Saturday (28km)
- Doullens: market every Thursday (29km)
- Rosieres-en-Santerre: market every Tuesday (30km)
- Montdidier: market every Thursday (34km)
- Abbeville: market every Thursday & Saturday (41km)
- Aumale: market every Saturday (41km)
- Roye: market every Friday (42km)
- Bapaume: market every Friday (46km)
- Ressons-sur-Matz: market every Wednesday (51km)
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 Amiens Cathedral and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Amiens Cathedral map below.
Heritage Site Amiens Cathedral (1km); Beffroi d'Amiens (Belfries of Belgium and France) (1km); Folleville église Saint-Jacques-le-Majeur-et-Saint-Jean-Baptiste (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (25km); Beffroi de Doullens (Belfries of Belgium and France) (30km); Beffroi de Lucheux (Belfries of Belgium and France) (35km); Beffroi de Saint-Riquier (Belfries of Belgium and France) (36km); Beffroi d'Abbeville (Belfries of Belgium and France) (41km)
Most Beautiful Village Gerberoy (51km)
Remarkable Garden Le clos Alexandre (1km); Parc du château de Digeon (36km); Jardin du château de Maizicourt (36km)
Town Of Art And History Amiens (6km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Mureaumont (47km); Forest-l'Abbaye (48km)
Map of places to visit near Amiens Cathedral & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Amiens Cathedral
Canton: na
Arrondissement: na
Department: Somme
Region: Picardy
Postcode: na
Distance to Amiens Cathedral
from Amiens (local prefecture): 9 km
from Paris: 115 km
from Calais: 122 km
from Nice: 785 km
from Bordeaux: 602 km
from Strasbourg: 422 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 16 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Amiens Cathedral): Allonville, Amiens, Argoeuves, Cagny, Camon, Dreuil-les-Amiens, Dury, Longueau, Pont-de-Metz, Poulainville, Rivery, Saint-Sauveur, Saleux, Salouel, Saveuse and Vers-sur-Selles.
Getting here
Somme is in the north of France. Most visitors take a a cross-channel ferry to a nearby port such as Dieppe or Boulogne or the channel tunnel to Calais. For driving distances to Amiens Cathedral from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Amiens Cathedral