Orsans travel guide

Orsans photo, taken in Ornans France

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Visit Orsans: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Orsans is situated in the Doubs department (Franche-Comte region) in the eastern-center of France at 28 km from Besancon, the department capital. (General information: Orsans is 349 km from Paris and 527 km from the port at Calais).

Note: The photo above was taken in Ornans at 24 km from Orsans

Popular places to visit near Orsans: these include Ornans at 24 km and Lods at 25 km.

Gouffre de Poudrey is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 14km and Lods is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 25km. 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 Orsans, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Orsans

photo of Ornans
Ornans 24km
photo of Lods
Lods 25km
photo of Vesoul
Vesoul 45km

See France This Way travel guides for and Franche-Comte (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Orsans.

Note that all distances from Orsans shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.

Orsans holidays and travel

If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Orsans (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 France and Doubs 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 Orsans and wondering what to do next!

  1. National Monuments: Astronomical clock of Besancon (28km) :
  2. Beautiful Villages: Lods (25km) :
  3. Town / village in bloom 4*: Mandeure (39km) : Montbeliard (43km) : Moffans-et-Vacheresse (44km) :
  4. Towns of Art and History: Besancon (28km) :
  5. Recommended Detour Town: Pontarlier (38km) :

Map of places to visit near Orsans & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Orsans

Canton: Vercel-Villedieu-le-Camp

Arrondissement: Besançon

Department: Doubs

Region: Franche-Comte

Postcode: 25530

Distance to Orsans

from Besancon: 28 km

from Paris: 349 km

from Calais: 527 km

from Nice: 400 km

from Bordeaux: 600 km

from Strasbourg: 180 km

* distances are direct not by road!

Place with full review on France This Way Other attractions & sights of interest

More information

We have 17 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Orsans): Adam-les-Passavant, Belmont, Bremondans, Chaux-les-Passavant, Cotebrune, Courtetain-et-Salans, Epenouse, Eysson, Germefontaine, Lanans, Magny-Chatelard, Passavant, Saint-Juan, Vaudrivillers, Vellerot-les-Vercel, Villers-Chief and Villers-la-Combe.

Getting here

For driving distances to Orsans from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Orsans