Arques travel guide
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Visit Arques: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Arques is situated in the Pas-de-Calais department (Nord-Pas-de-Calais region) in the north of France at 60 km from Arras, the department capital. (General information: Arques is 209 km from Paris and 39 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint-Omer at 3 km from Arques
Popular places to visit near Arques: these include Saint-Omer at 3 km and Aire-sur-la-Lys at 13 km.
Saint-Omer is a listed 'town of art and history' at 3km and La ferme du mont des Récollets is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 15km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Arques: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 3*;
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Arques, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Arques
See France This Way travel guides for Pas-de-Calais and Nord-Pas-de-Calais (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Arques.
Note that all distances from Arques shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Arques holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Arques (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 Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Pas-de-Calais 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 Arques and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': La ferme du mont des Récollets (15km) : Parc du château de Sericourt (49km) :
- National Monuments: Column of the Grand Army (48km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint-Saulve (Montreuil-sur-Mer) (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Loon-Plage (29km) : Grande-Synthe (31km) : Boulogne-sur-Mer (49km) : Montreuil-sur-Mer (49km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Saint-Omer (3km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Bergues (28km) : Gravelines (30km) : Montreuil (48km) :
- Grand Site of France: Cap Blanc-Nez / Cap Gris-Nez (46km) :
Map of places to visit near Arques & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Arques
Canton: Arques
Arrondissement: Saint-Omer
Department: Pas-de-Calais
Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Postcode: 62510
Distance to Arques
from Arras: 60 km
from Paris: 209 km
from Calais: 39 km
from Nice: 867 km
from Bordeaux: 690 km
from Strasbourg: 459 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Arques): Blendecques, Campagne-les-Wardrecques, Clairmarais, Helfaut, Heuringhem, Longuenesse, Nieurlet, Pihem, Racquinghem, Renescure, Saint-Martin-Au-Laert, Saint-Omer, Salperwick, Wardrecques and Wizernes.
Getting here
For driving distances to Arques from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Arques