Le Grais travel guide
Visit Le Grais: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Bagnoles de l'Orne at 12 km from Le Grais
Location: Le Grais is situated in the Orne department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 39 km from Alencon, the department capital. (General information: Le Grais is 198 km from Paris and 301 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Le Grais: these include Bagnoles de l'Orne at 12 km and Domfront at 24 km. Carrouges Chateau is a listed national monument at 16 km and Normandie-Maine is a listed regional natural parc at 18 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 Le Grais, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Le Grais
See France This Way travel guides for Orne and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Le Grais.
Note that all distances from Le Grais shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Le Grais 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 Normandy and Orne gites and villas
Markets near Le Grais
- La Ferte-Mace: market every Thursday (6km)
- Briouze: market every Monday (7km)
- Bagnoles-de-l'Orne: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (11km)
- Flers: market every Wednesday & Saturday (21km)
- Argentan: market every Tuesday & Friday (25km)
- Conde-sur-Noireau: market every Thursday (29km)
- Falaise: market every Saturday (30km)
- Villaines-la-Juhel: market every Monday (33km)
- Trun: market every Thursday (35km)
- Sees: market every Saturday (37km)
- Alencon: market every Tuesday & Thursday all day & Sunday & Saturday (38km)
- Thury-Harcourt: market every Tuesday (40km)
- Mayenne: market every Saturday & Monday (43km)
- Gorron: market every Wednesday (44km)
- Fresnay-sur-Sarthe: market every Saturday (47km)
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 Le Grais and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Le Grais map below.
Most Beautiful Village Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei (35km)
National Monument Carrouges Chateau (16km)
Recommended Detour Domfront (24km); Argentan (26km)
Regional Natural Parc Normandie-Maine (18km)
Remarkable Garden Sassy (25km); Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (43km)
Town Of Art And History Mayenne (42km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saint-Fraimbault (32km); Saint-Loup-du-Gast (34km)
Map of places to visit near Le Grais & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Grais
Canton: Briouze
Arrondissement: Argentan
Department: Orne
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 61600
Distance to Le Grais
from Alencon (local prefecture): 39 km
from Paris: 198 km
from Calais: 301 km
from Nice: 801 km
from Bordeaux: 423 km
from Strasbourg: 594 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 11 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Le Grais): Beauvain, Faverolles, La Chaux, La Ferte-Mace, La Lande-de-Louge, Le Menil-de-Briouze, Lignou, Lonlay-le-Tesson, Montreuil-Au-Houlme, Saint-Georges-d'Annebecq and Saint-Maurice-du-Desert.
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 Le Grais from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Le Grais