Gurs travel guide
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Visit Gurs: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Gurs is situated in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France at 31 km from Pau, the department capital. (General information: Gurs is 664 km from Paris and 875 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Oloron-Sainte-Marie at 15 km from Gurs
Popular places to visit near Gurs: these include Oloron-Sainte-Marie at 15 km and Sauveterre-de-Bearn at 20 km.
Oloron-Sainte-Marie is a listed 'town of art and history' at 15km and Jardin du château de Momas is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 31km. 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 Gurs, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Gurs
See France This Way travel guides for Pyrenees-Atlantiques and Aquitaine (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Gurs.
Note that all distances from Gurs shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Gurs holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Gurs (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 Aquitaine and Pyrenees-Atlantiques 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 Gurs and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du château de Momas (31km) : Jardins du château de Viven (37km) :
- Beautiful Villages: La Bastide-Clairence (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Pau (31km) : Hagetmau (43km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Oloron-Sainte-Marie (15km) :
Map of places to visit near Gurs & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Gurs
Canton: Navarrenx
Arrondissement: Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Department: Pyrenees-Atlantiques
Region: Aquitaine
Postcode: 64190
Distance to Gurs
from Pau: 31 km
from Paris: 664 km
from Calais: 875 km
from Nice: 648 km
from Bordeaux: 174 km
from Strasbourg: 882 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 16 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Gurs): Angous, Aren, Castetnau-Camblong, Dognen, Geronce, Jasses, Lay-Lamidou, Navarrenx, Ogenne-Camptort, Orin, Prechacq-Josbaig, Prechacq-Navarrenx, Saint-Goin, Saucede, Sus and Susmiou.
Getting here
Pyrenees-Atlantiques is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into Biarritz airport (Bordeaux is another option). Allow at least 8 hours for the drive from the cross-channel ferries. For driving distances to Gurs from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Gurs