Cambrai travel guide
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Visit Cambrai: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Cambrai is situated in the Nord department (Nord-Pas-de-Calais region) in the north-east of France at 53 km from Lille, the department capital. (General information: Cambrai is 159 km from Paris and 130 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Cambrai
Popular places to visit near Cambrai: these include Cambrai at 1 km and Arras at 35 km.
Cambrai is a listed 'town of art and history' at 1km and Eglise de Notre Dame de Vaucelles (Les Rues-des-Vignes) is a listed 'religious monument' at 10km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Cambrai: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 3*;
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Cambrai, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Cambrai
See France This Way travel guides for and Nord-Pas-de-Calais (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Cambrai.
Note that all distances from Cambrai shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Cambrai holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Cambrai (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 Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Nord 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 Cambrai and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Le jardin de Sylvie Fontaine (38km) : Jardins du château (47km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Notre Dame de Vaucelles (Les Rues-des-Vignes) (10km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Mastaing (16km) : Guyencourt-Saulcourt (22km) : Arras (35km) : Gauchy (39km) : Wattignies (48km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Cambrai (1km) : Saint-Quentin (36km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (34km) :
Map of places to visit near Cambrai & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Cambrai
Canton: Cambrai
Arrondissement: Cambrai
Department: Nord
Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Postcode: 59400
Distance to Cambrai
from Lille: 53 km
from Paris: 159 km
from Calais: 130 km
from Nice: 781 km
from Bordeaux: 658 km
from Strasbourg: 371 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 24 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Cambrai): Awoingt, Blecourt, Cagnoncles, Cantaing-sur-Escaut, Cauroir, Cuvillers, Escaudoeuvres, Eswars, Fontaine-Notre-Dame, Haynecourt, Marcoing, Neuville-Saint-Remy, Niergnies, Noyelles-sur-Escaut, Proville, Raillencourt-Sainte-Olle, Ramillies, Rumilly-en-Cambresis, Sailly-Lez-Cambrai, Sancourt, Seranvillers-Forenville, Thun-Saint-Martin, Tilloy-Lez-Cambrai and Wambaix.
Getting here
For driving distances to Cambrai from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Cambrai