Bannes travel guide
Visit Bannes: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint-Cere at 6 km from Bannes
Location: Bannes is situated in the Lot department (Midi-Pyrenees region) in the south of France at 55 km from Cahors, the department capital. (General information: Bannes is 451 km from Paris and 683 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Bannes: these include Saint-Cere at 6 km and Autoire at 9 km. Chateau Montal is a listed national monument at 7 km and Autoire is a listed most beautiful village at 9 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 Bannes, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Bannes
See France This Way travel guides for Lot and Midi-Pyrenees (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Bannes.
Note that all distances from Bannes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Bannes 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 Midi-Pyrenees and Lot gites and villas
Markets near Bannes
- Bretenoux: market every Tuesday (13km)
- Vayrac: market every Thursday & Saturday (23km)
- Figeac: market every Saturday (24km)
- Maurs: market every Thursday (25km)
- Martel: market every Wednesday & Saturday (27km)
- Laroquebrou: market every Friday - seasonal market only - (28km)
- Monceaux-sur-Dordogne: market every Thursday - seasonal market only - (30km)
- Meyssac: market every Tuesday & Friday (33km)
- Souillac: market every Friday (35km)
- Decazeville: market every Tuesday & Friday (39km)
- Aubin: market every Wednesday & Friday (41km)
- Cransac: market every Tuesday - seasonal market only - (43km)
- Firmi: market every Saturday (44km)
- Brive-la-Gaillarde: market every Tuesday all day & Thursday all day & Saturday all day (49km)
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 Bannes and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Bannes map below.
Grand Site Of France Rocamadour (23km)
Heritage Site Rocamadour basilique Saint-Sauveur (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (23km); Figeac Hopital St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (24km); Gréalou dolmen de Pech-Laglaire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (31km); Conques pont sur le Dourdou (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (45km); Conques abbatiale Sainte-Foy (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (45km)
Most Beautiful Village Autoire (9km); Loubressac (11km); Carennac (18km); Curemonte (24km); Collonges-la-Rouge (34km); Turenne (37km); Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (43km); Conques (45km)
National Monument Chateau Montal (7km); Castelnau-Bretenoux Chateau (12km); Assier Chateau (15km)
Recommended Detour Figeac (26km)
Regional Natural Parc Causses du Quercy (32km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint Pierre (Carennac) (18km); Abbaye Sainte Marie (Souillac) (35km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Figeac (24km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Gouffre de Padirac (14km); Gouffre de la Fage (45km)
Town Of Art And History Figeac (26km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Le rocher des aigles (eagles) (23km)
Map of places to visit near Bannes & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Bannes
Canton: Saint-Céré
Arrondissement: Figeac
Department: Lot
Region: Midi-Pyrenees
Postcode: 46400
Distance to Bannes
from Cahors (local prefecture): 55 km
from Paris: 451 km
from Calais: 683 km
from Nice: 444 km
from Bordeaux: 196 km
from Strasbourg: 612 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Bannes): Aynac, Espeyroux, Ladirat, Latouille-Lentillac, Leyme, Molieres, Saint-Cere, Saint-Jean-Lagineste, Saint-Jean-Lespinasse, Saint-Medard-de-Presque, Saint-Paul-de-Vern, Saint-Vincent-du-Pendit and Terrou.
Getting here
For driving distances to Bannes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Bannes