Petite-Foret travel guide
Visit Petite-Foret: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux at 9 km from Petite-Foret
Location: Petite-Foret is situated in the Nord department (Nord-Pas-de-Calais region) in the north-east of France at 42 km from Lille, the department capital. (General information: Petite-Foret is 187 km from Paris and 131 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Petite-Foret: these include Saint-Amand-les-Eaux at 9 km and Cambrai at 29 km. Scarpe-Escaut is a listed regional natural parc at 8 km and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux is a listed recommended detour at 9 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 Petite-Foret, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Petite-Foret
See France This Way travel guides for and Nord-Pas-de-Calais (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Petite-Foret.
Note that all distances from Petite-Foret shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Petite-Foret 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 Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Nord gites and villas
Markets near Petite-Foret
- Anzin: market every Tuesday & Friday (2km)
- Beuvrages: market every Sunday (3km)
- Bruay-sur-l'Escaut: market every Thursday & Sunday (5km)
- Denain: market every Thursday (7km)
- Douchy-les-Mines: market every Saturday (10km)
- Escaudain: market every Monday (10km)
- Fenain: market every Saturday (12km)
- Abscon: market every Tuesday (13km)
- Aniche: market every Friday (16km)
- Avesnes-les-Aubert: market every Thursday & Sunday (21km)
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 Petite-Foret and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Petite-Foret map below.
Heritage Site Beffroi de Cambrai (Belfries of Belgium and France) (28km); Beffroi de Douai (Belfries of Belgium and France) (28km); Beffroi de Lille (Belfries of Belgium and France) (41km); Beffroi de Loos (Belfries of Belgium and France) (42km)
Recommended Detour Saint-Amand-les-Eaux (9km)
Regional Natural Parc Scarpe-Escaut (8km); l'Avesnois (36km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Notre Dame de Vaucelles (Les Rues-des-Vignes) (36km); Cathédrale Notre Dame de La Treille (Lille) (42km)
Remarkable Garden Le jardin de Sylvie Fontaine (33km); Le parc Barbieux (41km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Lille (41km)
Town Of Art And History Cambrai (29km); Roubaix (41km); Lille (42km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Mastaing (14km); Wattignies (38km); Wasquehal (41km); Roubaix (42km); Tourcoing (45km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Parc zoologique de Lille (42km)
Map of places to visit near Petite-Foret & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Petite-Forêt
Canton: Valenciennes-Nord
Arrondissement: Valenciennes
Department: Nord
Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Postcode: 59494
Distance to Petite-Foret
from Lille (local prefecture): 42 km
from Paris: 187 km
from Calais: 131 km
from Nice: 795 km
from Bordeaux: 686 km
from Strasbourg: 367 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have found 21 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Petite-Foret): Anzin, Aubry-du-Hainaut, Aulnoy-Lez-Valenciennes, Bellaing, Beuvrages, Bruay-sur-l'Escaut, Denain, Haulchin, Haveluy, Herin, La Sentinelle, Marly, Oisy, Prouvy, Raismes, Rouvignies, Saint-Saulve, Trith-Saint-Leger, Valenciennes, Wallers and Wavrechain-sous-Denain.
Getting here
For driving distances to Petite-Foret from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Petite-Foret