Escales travel guide
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Visit Escales: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Escales is situated in the Aude department (Languedoc-Roussillon region) in the south of France at 27 km from Carcassonne, the department capital. (General information: Escales is 627 km from Paris and 861 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Minerve at 15 km from Escales
Popular places to visit near Escales: these include Minerve at 15 km and Lagrasse at 16 km.
Minerve is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 15km and Lagrasse is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 16km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Escales, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Escales
See France This Way travel guides for Aude and Languedoc-Roussillon (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Escales.
Note that all distances from Escales shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Escales holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Escales (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 Languedoc-Roussillon and Aude 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 Escales and wondering what to do next!
- National Monuments: Enserune (35km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Minerve (15km) : Lagrasse (16km) : Olargues (41km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Fontfroide (Narbonne) (19km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Fraisse-sur-Agout (43km) :
- Heritage Sites: Carcassonne (28km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Narbonne (25km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Limoux (43km) :
- Grand Site of France: Carcassonne City (27km) :
Map of places to visit near Escales & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Escales
Canton: Lézignan-Corbières
Arrondissement: Narbonne
Department: Aude
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Postcode: 11200
Distance to Escales
from Carcassonne: 27 km
from Paris: 627 km
from Calais: 861 km
from Nice: 373 km
from Bordeaux: 317 km
from Strasbourg: 712 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 12 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Escales): Argens-Minervois, Castelnau-d'Aude, Conilhac-Corbieres, Homps, La Redorte, Lezignan-Corbieres, Montbrun-Des-Corbieres, Moux, Puicheric, Roquecourbe-Minervois, Saint-Couat-d'Aude and Tourouzelle.
Getting here
For driving distances to Escales from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Escales