Generest travel guide
Visit Generest: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges at 4 km from Generest
Location: Generest is situated in the Hautes-Pyrenees department (Midi-Pyrenees region) in the south-west of France at 43 km from Tarbes, the department capital. (General information: Generest is 663 km from Paris and 886 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Generest: these include Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges at 4 km and Valcabrere at 5 km. St Bertrand de Comminges cathédrale (monuments on French pilgrim routes) is a listed heritage site at 4 km and Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges is a listed most beautiful village at 4 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 Generest, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Generest
See France This Way travel guides for Hautes-Pyrenees and Midi-Pyrenees (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Generest.
Note that all distances from Generest shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Generest 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 Hautes-Pyrenees gites and villas
Markets near Generest
- Loures-Barousse: market every Friday (7km)
- Montrejeau: market every Monday (7km)
- Saint-Gaudens: market every Thursday (19km)
- Arreau: market every Thursday all day (19km)
- Aspet: market every Wednesday & Saturday (23km)
- Bagneres-de-Luchon: market every every day - seasonal market only - (27km)
- Saint-Lary-Soulan: market every Saturday (29km)
- Boulogne-sur-Gesse: market every Wednesday (31km)
- Bagneres-de-Bigorre: market every Saturday all day (31km)
- Salies-du-Salat: market every Monday (36km)
- Tarbes: market every Thursday all day (44km)
- Rabastens-de-Bigorre: market every Monday (50km)
- Vic-en-Bigorre: market every Saturday all day (54km)
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 Generest and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Generest map below.
Heritage Site St Bertrand de Comminges cathédrale (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (4km); St Bertrand de Comminges chapelle St Julien (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (4km); Valcabrère basilique St Just (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (5km); Jézeau église Saint-Laurent (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (19km); Aragnouet chapelle des templiers (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (39km); Mont Perdu (56km)
Most Beautiful Village Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (4km)
National Monument Montmaurin Gallo-Roman Villa (23km); Marshall Foch house (43km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin de la poterie Hillen (30km); Jardin Massey (43km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Gouffre d'Esparros (16km); Grottes de Médous (30km); Lac d'Oo (32km); Col du Tourmalet (34km); Cirque de Troumouse (48km); Cirque d'Estaubés (52km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Tarbes (44km)
Map of places to visit near Generest & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Générest
Canton: Saint-Laurent-de-Neste
Arrondissement: Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Department: Hautes-Pyrenees
Region: Midi-Pyrenees
Postcode: 65150
Distance to Generest
from Tarbes (local prefecture): 43 km
from Paris: 663 km
from Calais: 886 km
from Nice: 550 km
from Bordeaux: 219 km
from Strasbourg: 833 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 31 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Generest): Aneres, Anla, Antichan, Ausson, Aventignan, Aveux, Bize, Bramevaque, Crechets, Gaudent, Gembrie, Gourdan-Polignan, Hautaget, Huos, Ilheu, Labroquere, Lombres, Mazeres-de-Neste, Montegut, Nestier, Nistos, Sacoue, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, Saint-Laurent-de-Neste, Saint-Paul, Samuran, Sarp, Seich, Seilhan, Tibiran-Jaunac and Valcabrere.
Getting here
For driving distances to Generest from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Generest