Barr travel guide
Visit Barr: Highlights and Tourist Information
IMPORTANT: this is a summary of local highlights. For detailed visitor information see Barr travel guide
Location: Barr is situated in the Bas-Rhin department (Alsace region) in the north-east of France at 31 km from Strasbourg, the department capital. (General information: Barr is 377 km from Paris and 491 km from the port at Calais).
Market days in Barr: weekly market: Saturday; (markets take place in the morning unless indicated)
Popular places to visit near Barr: these include Mittelbergheim at 1 km and Chateau Andlau at 2 km. Mittelbergheim is a listed most beautiful village at 1 km and Itterswiller is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 5 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 Barr, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Barr
See France This Way travel guides for Bas-Rhin and Alsace (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Barr.
Note that all distances from Barr shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Barr 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 Alsace and Bas-Rhin gites and villas
Markets near Barr
- Barr: market every Saturday (0km)
- Obernai: market every Thursday (7km)
- Ville: market every Wednesday (12km)
- Benfeld: market every Monday (12km)
- Molsheim: market every Monday (15km)
- Selestat: market every Tuesday & Saturday (16km)
- Erstein: market every Thursday (17km)
- Rothau: market every Saturday (18km)
- Schirmeck: market every Wednesday (18km)
- Illkirch-Graffenstaden: market every Saturday (25km)
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 Barr and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Barr map below.
Heritage Site Strasbourg Grand Ile (30km)
Most Beautiful Village Mittelbergheim (1km); Hunawihr (27km); Riquewihr (29km)
Recommended Detour Obernai (7km)
Remarkable Garden Domaine du Windeck (6km); Parc du château de Kintzheim (17km); Jardin du chateau de Kolbsheim (21km); Le jardin de Marguerite (23km); Parc du domaine de Schoppenwihr (30km); Jardin botanique de l'université de Strasbourg (30km); Jardins de Callunes (32km); Jardin botanique du col de Saverne (38km); Jardin de l'Escalier (42km); Jardin d'altitude du Haut-Chitelet (50km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Strasbourg (30km); Colmar (36km)
Town Of Art And History Strasbourg (30km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Itterswiller (5km); Diebolsheim (21km); Bergheim (23km); Ribeauville (25km); Marckolsheim (28km); Bischheim (33km); Colmar (36km); Drusenheim (55km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Cigoland (16km)
Map of places to visit near Barr & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Barr
Canton: Barr
Arrondissement: Sélestat-Erstein
Department: Bas-Rhin
Region: Alsace
Postcode: 67140
Distance to Barr
from Strasbourg (local prefecture): 31 km
from Paris: 377 km
from Calais: 491 km
from Nice: 523 km
from Bordeaux: 729 km
from Strasbourg: 30 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 19 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Barr): Andlau, Bernardswiller, Bernardville, Bourgheim, Chateau Andlau, Eichhoffen, Epfig, Gertwiller, Goxwiller, Heiligenstein, Itterswiller, Mittelbergheim, Mont-Sainte-Odile, Nothalten, Reichsfeld, Saint-Nabor, Saint-Pierre, Stotzheim and Zellwiller.
Getting here
Bas-Rhin is in the north-east of France. Most visitors fly into Paris or drive from one of the channel ports such as Calais or Dunkirk (allow around 6 hours) For driving distances to Barr from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Barr