Giel-Courteilles travel guide
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Visit Giel-Courteilles: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Giel-Courteilles is situated in the Orne department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 42 km from Alencon, the department capital. (General information: Giel-Courteilles is 187 km from Paris and 284 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Argentan at 13 km from Giel-Courteilles
Popular places to visit near Giel-Courteilles: these include Argentan at 13 km and Falaise at 14 km.
Argentan is a listed 'recommended detour' at 13km and Sassy is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 19km. 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 Giel-Courteilles, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Giel-Courteilles
See France This Way travel guides for Orne and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Giel-Courteilles.
Note that all distances from Giel-Courteilles shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Giel-Courteilles holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Giel-Courteilles (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 Normandy and Orne 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 Giel-Courteilles and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Sassy (19km) : Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (26km) :
- National Monuments: Carrouges Chateau (23km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei (44km) : Beuvron (48km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Fraimbault (48km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Argentan (13km) : Domfront (38km) :
Map of places to visit near Giel-Courteilles & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Giel-Courteilles
Canton: Putanges-Pont-Écrepin
Arrondissement: Argentan
Department: Orne
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 61210
Distance to Giel-Courteilles
from Alencon: 42 km
from Paris: 187 km
from Calais: 284 km
from Nice: 803 km
from Bordeaux: 438 km
from Strasbourg: 584 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Giel-Courteilles): Batilly, Champcerie, Ecouche, Habloville, La Courbe, La Fresnaye-Au-Sauvage, Les Rotours, Menil-Jean, Montgaroult, Neuvy-Au-Houlme, Putanges-Pont-Ecrepin, Ri, Ronai, Sentilly and Serans.
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 Giel-Courteilles from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Giel-Courteilles