Avancon travel guide
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Visit Avancon: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Avancon is situated in the Hautes-Alpes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 9 km from Gap, the department capital. (General information: Avancon is 563 km from Paris and 784 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Seyne-les-Alpes at 24 km from Avancon
Popular places to visit near Avancon: these include Seyne-les-Alpes at 24 km and Embrun at 25 km.
Domaine de Charance is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 12km and Lac de Serre-Poncon is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 13km. 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 Avancon, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Avancon
See France This Way travel guides for Hautes-Alpes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Avancon.
Note that all distances from Avancon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Avancon holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Avancon (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 Provence and Hautes-Alpes 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 Avancon and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Domaine de Charance (12km) :
- National Monuments: Place Forte de Mont-Dauphin (38km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Poligny (22km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: L'Argentiere-la-Bessee (42km) : Sisteron (42km) :
Map of places to visit near Avancon & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Avançon
Canton: Bâtie-Neuve
Arrondissement: Gap
Department: Hautes-Alpes
Region: Provence
Postcode: 05230
Distance to Avancon
from Gap: 9 km
from Paris: 563 km
from Calais: 784 km
from Nice: 126 km
from Bordeaux: 536 km
from Strasbourg: 467 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Avancon): Jarjayes, La Batie-Neuve, La Batie-Vieille, Montgardin, Rambaud, Saint-Etienne-le-Laus, Theus and Valserres.
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 Avancon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Avancon