Ancelle travel guide
Visit Ancelle: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Gap at 12 km from Ancelle
Location: Ancelle is situated in the Hautes-Alpes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 12 km from Gap, the department capital. (General information: Ancelle is 555 km from Paris and 775 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Ancelle: these include Gap at 12 km and Lake Serre-Poncon at 17 km. Domaine de Charance is a listed remarkable garden at 13 km and Poligny is a listed town of art and history at 15 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 Ancelle, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Ancelle
See France This Way travel guides for Hautes-Alpes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Ancelle.
Note that all distances from Ancelle shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Ancelle 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 Provence and Hautes-Alpes gites and villas
Markets near Ancelle
- Chorges: market every Sunday (10km)
- Gap: market every Wednesday & Saturday (12km)
- Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur: market every Thursday - seasonal market only - (12km)
- Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur: market every Monday (12km)
- Embrun: market every Wednesday - seasonal market only - (23km)
- Embrun: market every Saturday (23km)
- Montclar: market every Sunday - seasonal market only - (27km)
- Veynes: market every Thursday (32km)
- Seyne: market every Tuesday & Friday (32km)
- Vallouise: market every Thursday (34km)
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 Ancelle and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Ancelle map below.
Grand Site Of France Vallee de la Claree (54km)
Heritage Site Mont-Dauphin place forte (Vauban fortifications) (34km); Briancon fortifications (Vauban fortifications) (48km)
National Monument Place Forte de Mont-Dauphin (34km)
Recommended Detour L'Argentiere-la-Bessee (34km)
Remarkable Garden Domaine de Charance (13km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Briancon (47km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Lac de Serre-Poncon (17km); Col d'Allos (48km)
Town Of Art And History Poligny (15km); Briancon (46km)
Map of places to visit near Ancelle & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Ancelle
Canton: Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur
Arrondissement: Gap
Department: Hautes-Alpes
Region: Provence
Postcode: 5260
Distance to Ancelle
from Gap (local prefecture): 12 km
from Paris: 555 km
from Calais: 775 km
from Nice: 133 km
from Bordeaux: 536 km
from Strasbourg: 456 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Ancelle): Buissard, Chabottes, Forest-Saint-Julien, La Rochette, Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas, Saint-Julien-en-Champsaur, Saint-Leger-les-Melezes and Saint-Michel-de-Chaillol.
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 Ancelle from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Ancelle