Auray travel guide
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Visit Auray: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Auray is situated in the Morbihan department (Brittany region) in the north-west of France at 17 km from Vannes, the department capital. (General information: Auray is 416 km from Paris and 506 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Auray (page also includes a photo gallery for Auray)
Popular places to visit near Auray: these include Saint-Goustan at 1 km and Sainte-Anne d'Auray at 5 km.
Carnac is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 11km and Jardins de Kerambar’h is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 11km. 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 Auray, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Auray
See France This Way travel guides for Morbihan and Brittany (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Auray.
Note that all distances from Auray shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Auray holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Auray (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 Brittany and Morbihan 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 Auray and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins de Kerambar’h (11km) : Parc Victor Chevassu (30km) :
- National Monuments: Megalithic site of Carnac (11km) : Megaliths of Locmariaquer (11km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Carnac (11km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Vannes (17km) : La Vraie-Croix (33km) : Rochefort-en-Terre (48km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Lorient (36km) :
- Grand Site of France: Massif Dunaire de Gavres-Quiberon (28km) :
Map of places to visit near Auray & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Auray
Canton: Auray
Arrondissement: Lorient
Department: Morbihan
Region: Brittany
Postcode: 56400
Distance to Auray
from Vannes: 17 km
from Paris: 416 km
from Calais: 506 km
from Nice: 909 km
from Bordeaux: 365 km
from Strasbourg: 802 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Auray): Baden, Bono, Brech, Crach, Plougoumelen, Pluneret and Sainte-Anne-d'Auray.
Getting here
Morbihan is in the north-west of France. Most visitors While most UK visitors will arrive by car from the ferry port at Saint Malo a drive of 2-3 hours is still common. For driving distances to Auray from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Auray