Arras travel guide
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Visit Arras: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Arras is situated in the Pas-de-Calais department (Nord-Pas-de-Calais region) in the north of France - it is the prefecture (capital) of the Pas-de-Calais department. (General information: Arras is 162 km from Paris and 98 km from the port at Calais).
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Popular places to visit near Arras: these include Arras at 1 km and Cambrai at 35 km.
Arras is a listed 'town of art and history' at 1km and Parc du château de Sericourt is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 33km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Arras: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 4*;
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Arras, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Arras
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 Arras.
Note that all distances from Arras shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Arras holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Arras (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 Arras and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Sericourt (33km) : Jardin du château de Maizicourt (47km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Notre Dame de Vaucelles (Les Rues-des-Vignes) (42km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame de La Treille (Lille) (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Mastaing (38km) : Boubers-sur-Canche (38km) : Wattignies (39km) : Guyencourt-Saulcourt (39km) : Wasquehal (49km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Arras (1km) : Cambrai (35km) : Lille (44km) :
Map of places to visit near Arras & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Arras
Canton: Arras
Arrondissement: Arras
Department: Pas-de-Calais
Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Postcode: 62000
Distance to Arras
from Arras: 0 km
from Paris: 162 km
from Calais: 98 km
from Nice: 807 km
from Bordeaux: 656 km
from Strasbourg: 406 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 19 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Arras): Achicourt, Agny, Anzin-Saint-Aubin, Athies, Bailleul-Sir-Berthoult, Beaurains, Dainville, Duisans, Ecurie, Etrun, Feuchy, Maroeuil, Neuville-Vitasse, Roclincourt, Saint-Laurent-Blangy, Saint-Nicolas, Sainte-Catherine, Tilloy-les-Mofflaines and Wailly.
Getting here
For driving distances to Arras from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Arras