Jurancon travel guide
Visit Jurancon: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Pau at 2 km from Jurancon
Location: Jurancon is situated in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France at 2 km from Pau, the department capital. (General information: Jurancon is 654 km from Paris and 869 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Jurancon: these include Pau at 2 km and Oloron-Sainte-Marie at 20 km. Pau is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 2 km and Jardin du château de Momas is a listed remarkable garden at 19 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 Jurancon, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Jurancon
See France This Way travel guides for Pyrenees-Atlantiques and Aquitaine (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Jurancon.
Note that all distances from Jurancon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Jurancon 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 Aquitaine and Pyrenees-Atlantiques gites and villas
Markets near Jurancon
- Pau: market every every day except Sunday (2km)
- Gan: market every Wednesday (6km)
- Monein: market every Monday (16km)
- Artix: market every Wednesday & Sunday (19km)
- Mourenx: market every Wednesday & Saturday (21km)
- Oloron-Sainte-Marie: market every Friday (21km)
- Castet: market every Thursday (24km)
- Arthez-de-Bearn: market every Saturday (27km)
- Navarrenx: market every Wednesday (30km)
- Aramits: market every Sunday (33km)
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 Jurancon and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Jurancon map below.
Heritage Site Eglise, Oloron-Sainte-Marie (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (21km); Eglise St Blaise (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (31km); Ourdis-Cotdoussan église St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (43km)
National Monument Marshall Foch house (38km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin du château de Momas (19km); Jardins du château de Viven (20km); Jardin Massey (38km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Grottes de Betharram (26km); Vallée d'Ossau (34km); Col d'Aubisque (35km); Vallée d'Aspe (41km); Cirque de Saint-Engrace (48km); Gorges de Kakoetta (51km)
Town Of Art And History Oloron-Sainte-Marie (21km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Pau (2km); Tarbes (38km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Zoo d'Asson (20km)
Map of places to visit near Jurancon & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Jurançon
Canton: Jurançon
Arrondissement: Pau
Department: Pyrenees-Atlantiques
Region: Aquitaine
Postcode: 64110
Distance to Jurancon
from Pau (local prefecture): 2 km
from Paris: 654 km
from Calais: 869 km
from Nice: 619 km
from Bordeaux: 173 km
from Strasbourg: 861 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Jurancon): Aressy, Billere, Bizanos, Gelos, Laroin, Lescar, Lons, Mazeres-Lezons, Narcastet, Pau, Rontignon, Saint-Faust and Uzos.
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 Jurancon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Jurancon