Mercantour National Park travel guide
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Visit Mercantour National Park: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Mercantour National Park is situated in the Alpes-Maritimes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 54 km from Nice, the department capital. (General information: Mercantour National Park is 635 km from Paris and 850 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Mercantour National Park
Popular places to visit near Mercantour National Park: these include Entrevaux at 33 km and Colmars-les-Alpes at 36 km.
Col de la Lombarde is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 7km and Arboretum Marcel Kroenlein is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 8km. 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 Mercantour National Park, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Mercantour National Park
See France This Way travel guides for Alpes-Maritimes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Mercantour National Park.
Note that all distances from Mercantour National Park shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Mercantour National Park holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Mercantour National Park (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 Provence and Alpes-Maritimes 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 Mercantour National Park and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Arboretum Marcel Kroenlein (8km) : Le Vallon du Brec (42km) :
- National Monuments: Saorge Monastery (42km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Coaraze (38km) :
Map of places to visit near Mercantour National Park & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Parc national du Mercantour
Canton: na
Arrondissement: na
Department: Alpes-Maritimes
Region: Provence
Postcode: na
Distance to Mercantour National Park
from Nice: 54 km
from Paris: 635 km
from Calais: 850 km
from Nice: 54 km
from Bordeaux: 612 km
from Strasbourg: 494 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 1 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Mercantour National Park): Isola.
Getting here
Alpes-Maritimes is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into Nice airport. Coming from the UK by car the route takes about 12 hours (can be busy in summer). For driving distances to Mercantour National Park from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Mercantour National Park