Bure travel guide
Visit Bure: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Mortagne-au-Perche at 11 km from Bure
Location: Bure is situated in the Orne department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 25 km from Alencon, the department capital. (General information: Bure is 148 km from Paris and 290 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Bure: these include Mortagne-au-Perche at 11 km and Belleme at 19 km. Jardin de la petite Rochelle is a listed remarkable garden at 29 km and Perche is a listed regional natural parc at 31 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 Bure, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Bure
See France This Way travel guides for Orne and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Bure.
Note that all distances from Bure shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Bure 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 Normandy and Orne gites and villas
Markets near Bure
- Le Mele-sur-Sarthe: market every Wednesday (4km)
- Mortagne-Au-Perche: market every Saturday all day (10km)
- Mamers: market every Monday (19km)
- Sees: market every Saturday (20km)
- Tourouvre: market every Friday (20km)
- Longny-Au-Perche: market every Wednesday (25km)
- Alencon: market every Tuesday & Thursday all day & Sunday & Saturday (26km)
- Remalard: market every Monday (29km)
- Vitrai-sous-Laigle: market every Tuesday (31km)
- Le Theil: market every Wednesday (35km)
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 Bure and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Bure map below.
Most Beautiful Village Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei (37km)
Recommended Detour Nogent-le-Rotrou (38km); Argentan (40km)
Regional Natural Parc Perche (31km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin de la petite Rochelle (29km); Sassy (33km)
Map of places to visit near Bure & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Buré
Canton: Bazoches-sur-Hoëne
Arrondissement: Mortagne-au-Perche
Department: Orne
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 61170
Distance to Bure
from Alencon (local prefecture): 25 km
from Paris: 148 km
from Calais: 290 km
from Nice: 752 km
from Bordeaux: 416 km
from Strasbourg: 540 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Bure): Barville, Bazoches-sur-Hoene, Boece, Bures, Coulimer, Coulonges-sur-Sarthe, La Mesniere, Laleu, Le Mele-sur-Sarthe, Montchevrel, Saint-Aubin-d'Appenai, Saint-Julien-sur-Sarthe, Saint-Leger-sur-Sarthe and Saint-Quentin-de-Blavou.
Getting here
Orne is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-challen ferry ports with Caen being especially close, typically within an hours drive. For driving distances to Bure from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Bure