Roubion travel guide
Visit Roubion: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Mercantour National Park at 9 km from Roubion
Location: Roubion is situated in the Alpes-Maritimes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 48 km from Nice, the department capital. (General information: Roubion is 640 km from Paris and 856 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Roubion: these include Mercantour National Park at 9 km and Entrevaux at 25 km. Arboretum Marcel Kroenlein is a listed remarkable garden at 3 km and Col de la Lombarde is a listed site of natural beauty 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 Roubion, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Roubion
See France This Way travel guides for Alpes-Maritimes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Roubion.
Note that all distances from Roubion shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Roubion 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 Alpes-Maritimes gites and villas
Markets near Roubion
- Puget-Theniers: market every Sunday (20km)
- Annot: market every Tuesday (34km)
- Colmars: market every Friday & Tuesday - seasonal market only - (35km)
- Carros: market every Saturday (36km)
- Allos: market every Wednesday (37km)
- Breil-sur-Roya: market every Tuesday all day (41km)
- Barcelonnette: market every Monday all day - seasonal market only - (46km)
- Barcelonnette: market every Wednesday & Saturday (46km)
- Menton: market every Tuesday & Monday (51km)
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 Roubion and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Roubion map below.
Most Beautiful Village Coaraze (32km); Sainte-Agnes (46km)
National Monument Trophy of Augustus (48km)
Remarkable Garden Arboretum Marcel Kroenlein (3km); Le Vallon du Brec (33km); La citronneraie (50km); Palais Carnolès (50km); Serre de la Madone (50km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Menton (51km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Col de la Lombarde (15km); Caires de Cougourde (24km); Cirque du Gelas (27km); Col de la Cayolle (31km); Lac d'Allos (31km); Col de la Bonette (33km); Baou de Saint-Jeannet (39km); Col d'Allos (43km)
Town Of Art And History Menton (50km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Menton (51km)
Map of places to visit near Roubion & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Roubion
Canton: Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinée
Arrondissement: Nice
Department: Alpes-Maritimes
Region: Provence
Postcode: 6420
Distance to Roubion
from Nice (local prefecture): 48 km
from Paris: 640 km
from Calais: 856 km
from Nice: 47 km
from Bordeaux: 611 km
from Strasbourg: 502 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Roubion): Beuil, Roure and Saint-Sauveur-sur-Tinee.
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 Roubion from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Roubion