Gars travel guide
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Visit Gars: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Gars is situated in the Alpes-Maritimes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 42 km from Nice, the department capital. (General information: Gars is 651 km from Paris and 871 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Entrevaux at 9 km from Gars
Popular places to visit near Gars: these include Entrevaux at 9 km and Annot at 15 km.
Lac de Castillon is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 21km and Le Vallon du Brec is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 21km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Gars, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Gars
See France This Way travel guides for Alpes-Maritimes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Gars.
Note that all distances from Gars shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Gars holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Gars (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 Provence and Alpes-Maritimes 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 Gars and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Le Vallon du Brec (21km) : Jardin de la Villa Fort de France (24km) : Arboretum Marcel Kroenlein (34km) : Parc du château de la Napoule (40km) : Jardin botanique de la villa Thuret (41km) : Jardin botanique (41km) : Jardins Ephrussi de Rothschild (46km) :
- National Monuments: Frejus Cathedral cloisters (49km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Gourdon (21km) : Seillans (29km) : Coaraze (39km) : Moustiers (47km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Lerins (Cannes) (39km) : Cathédrale Saint Léonce (Frejus) (48km) : Eglise de St Raphaël (Saint-Raphael) (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cannes (39km) : Nice (42km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Grasse (25km) : Frejus (49km) :
- Grand Site of France: Gorges du Verdon (38km) :
Map of places to visit near Gars & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Gars
Canton: Saint-Auban
Arrondissement: Grasse
Department: Alpes-Maritimes
Region: Provence
Postcode: 06850
Distance to Gars
from Nice: 42 km
from Paris: 651 km
from Calais: 871 km
from Nice: 41 km
from Bordeaux: 596 km
from Strasbourg: 530 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Gars): Amirat, Brianconnet, Collongues, Le Mas, Les Mujouls and Val-de-Chalvagne.
Getting here
Alpes-Maritimes is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into Nice airport. Coming from the UK by car the route takes about 12 hours (can be busy in summer). For driving distances to Gars from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Gars