Gif-sur-Yvette travel guide
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Visit Gif-sur-Yvette: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Gif-sur-Yvette is situated in the Essonne department (Paris region) in the of France at 5419 km from , the department capital. (General information: Gif-sur-Yvette is 23 km from Paris and 251 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Versailles Palace at 11 km from Gif-sur-Yvette
Popular places to visit near Gif-sur-Yvette: these include Versailles Palace at 11 km and Catacombs at 21 km.
Notre Dame de Port Royal des Champs (Magny-les-Hameaux) is a listed 'religious monument' at 4km and Parc du château de Beauregard is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 5km. 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 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Gif-sur-Yvette
Note that all distances from Gif-sur-Yvette shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Gif-sur-Yvette holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Gif-sur-Yvette (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 Paris and gites in France
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 Gif-sur-Yvette and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Beauregard (5km) : Parc du château de Breteuil (8km) : Potager du roi, Versailles (11km) : Parc de Courson (11km) : Parc de Versailles (11km) : Maison de Chateaubriand (12km) : Parc du domaine de Sceaux (14km) : Domaine national de Saint-Cloud (15km) : Domaine de la Malmaison (19km) : Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (22km) :
- National Monuments: Maison des Jardies (15km) : Saint Cloud Parc (15km) : Arc de Triomphe (22km) : Pantheon (22km) : Sainte-Chapelle (23km) : Notre Dame cathedral (23km) : Conciergerie (23km) : Rambouillet Chateau (23km) : Chapelle Expiatoire (24km) : Villa Savoye (26km) :
- Religious monuments: Notre Dame de Port Royal des Champs (Magny-les-Hameaux) (4km) : Abbaye Notre Dame des Vaulx de Cernay (Cernay-la-Ville) (14km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Bougival) (18km) : Eglise de Saint Martin et Saint Blaise (Louveciennes) (18km) : Eglise de Saint Etienne (Mareil-Marly) (20km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Chatou) (21km) : Eglise de Sainte Geneviève (Feucherolles) (22km) : Cathédrale de Notre Dame (Paris) (23km) : Sainte Chapelle (Paris) (23km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) (23km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Velizy-Villacoublay (10km) : Le Plessis-Robinson (13km) : Meudon (14km) : Rueil-Malmaison (20km) : Le Vesinet (21km) : Courbevoie (23km) : Levallois-Perret (24km) : Maisons-Alfort (25km) : Creteil (26km) : Soisy-sous-Montmorency (34km) :
- Heritage Sites: Versailles Palace (11km) : Seine Banks, Paris (23km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Rambouillet (23km) : Etampes (30km) : Pontoise (39km) : Noisiel (40km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: L'Isle-Adam (47km) :
Map of places to visit near Gif-sur-Yvette & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Gif-sur-Yvette
Canton: Gif-sur-Yvette
Arrondissement: Palaiseau
Department: Essonne
Region: Paris
Postcode: 91190
Distance to Gif-sur-Yvette
from : 5419 km
from Paris: 23 km
from Calais: 251 km
from Nice: 682 km
from Bordeaux: 477 km
from Strasbourg: 413 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 16 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Gif-sur-Yvette): Boullay-les-Troux, Bures-sur-Yvette, Chateaufort, Gometz-la-Ville, Gometz-le-Chatel, Les Molieres, Les Ulis, Magny-les-Hameaux, Orsay, Saclay, Saint-Aubin, Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard, Saint-Remy-les-Chevreuse, Toussus-le-Noble, Vauhallan and Villiers-le-Bacle.
Getting here
For driving distances to Gif-sur-Yvette from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Gif-sur-Yvette