Montgardin travel guide
Visit Montgardin: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Lake Serre-Poncon at 9 km from Montgardin
Location: Montgardin is situated in the Hautes-Alpes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 13 km from Gap, the department capital. (General information: Montgardin is 563 km from Paris and 783 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Montgardin: these include Lake Serre-Poncon at 9 km and Gap at 13 km. Lac de Serre-Poncon is a listed site of natural beauty at 9 km and Domaine de Charance is a listed remarkable garden at 15 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 Montgardin, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Montgardin
See France This Way travel guides for Hautes-Alpes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Montgardin.
Note that all distances from Montgardin shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Montgardin 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 Provence and Hautes-Alpes gites and villas
Markets near Montgardin
- Chorges: market every Sunday (3km)
- Gap: market every Wednesday & Saturday (13km)
- Montclar: market every Sunday - seasonal market only - (19km)
- Embrun: market every Wednesday - seasonal market only - (19km)
- Embrun: market every Saturday (19km)
- Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur: market every Thursday - seasonal market only - (20km)
- Saint-Bonnet-en-Champsaur: market every Monday (20km)
- Seyne: market every Tuesday & Friday (24km)
- Veynes: market every Thursday (33km)
- Guillestre: market every Monday (34km)
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 Montgardin and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Montgardin map below.
Heritage Site Mont-Dauphin place forte (Vauban fortifications) (33km); Briancon fortifications (Vauban fortifications) (51km)
National Monument Place Forte de Mont-Dauphin (33km)
Recommended Detour L'Argentiere-la-Bessee (37km); Sisteron (46km)
Remarkable Garden Domaine de Charance (15km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Briancon (50km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Lac de Serre-Poncon (9km); Col d'Allos (40km); Lac d'Allos (51km); Col de la Cayolle (51km)
Town Of Art And History Poligny (22km); Briancon (50km)
Map of places to visit near Montgardin & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Montgardin
Canton: Bâtie-Neuve
Arrondissement: Gap
Department: Hautes-Alpes
Region: Provence
Postcode: 5230
Distance to Montgardin
from Gap (local prefecture): 13 km
from Paris: 563 km
from Calais: 783 km
from Nice: 125 km
from Bordeaux: 540 km
from Strasbourg: 463 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Montgardin): Avancon, Chorges and La Batie-Neuve.
Getting here
Hautes-Alpes is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into Nice, Lyon or Grenoble airports. By car from the UK allow about 10 hours for the journey from Calais to here. For driving distances to Montgardin from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Montgardin