Bars travel guide
Visit Bars: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Maubourguet at 21 km from Bars
Location: Bars is situated in the Gers department (Midi-Pyrenees region) in the south-west of France at 28 km from Auch, the department capital. (General information: Bars is 615 km from Paris and 835 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Bars: these include Maubourguet at 21 km and Vic Fezensac at 28 km. Ordan-Larroque is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 24 km and Auch cathédrale St Just (monuments on French pilgrim routes) is a listed heritage site at 28 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 Bars, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Bars
See France This Way travel guides for Gers and Midi-Pyrenees (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Bars.
Note that all distances from Bars shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Bars 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 Gers gites and villas
Markets near Bars
- Mirande: market every Monday (9km)
- Marciac: market every Wednesday (11km)
- Rabastens-de-Bigorre: market every Monday (18km)
- Plaisance: market every Thursday (22km)
- Vic-en-Bigorre: market every Saturday all day (24km)
- Seissan: market every Friday (24km)
- Vic Fezensac: market every Friday all day (27km)
- Auch: market every Thursday & Saturday (27km)
- Tarbes: market every Thursday all day (34km)
- Riscle: market every Friday (35km)
- Boulogne-sur-Gesse: market every Wednesday (38km)
- Eauze: market every Thursday all day (42km)
- Fleurance: market every Tuesday all day (48km)
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 Bars and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Bars map below.
Heritage Site Auch cathédrale St Just (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (28km)
National Monument Marshall Foch house (36km); Montmaurin Gallo-Roman Villa (42km)
Remarkable Garden Palmeraie du Sarthou (31km); Jardin de la poterie Hillen (34km); Jardin Massey (35km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Ordan-Larroque (24km); Tarbes (34km)
Map of places to visit near Bars & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Bars
Canton: Montesquiou
Arrondissement: Mirande
Department: Gers
Region: Midi-Pyrenees
Postcode: 32300
Distance to Bars
from Auch (local prefecture): 28 km
from Paris: 615 km
from Calais: 835 km
from Nice: 562 km
from Bordeaux: 163 km
from Strasbourg: 805 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 10 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Bars): Laas, Marseillan, Mascaras, Monclar-sur-Losse, Monpardiac, Pallanne, Pouylebon, Saint-Christaud, Saint-Maur and Tillac.
Getting here
For driving distances to Bars from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Bars