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Visit Saint-Abit: Highlights and Tourist Information

Note: The photo above was taken in Pau at 12 km from Saint-Abit

Location: Saint-Abit is situated in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France at 12 km from Pau, the department capital. (General information: Saint-Abit is 660 km from Paris and 876 km from the port at Calais).

Popular places to visit near Saint-Abit: these include Pau at 12 km and Lourdes at 25 km. Zoo d'Asson is a listed zoo or wildlife park at 9 km and Pau is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 12 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 Saint-Abit, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Saint-Abit

photo of Pau
Pau 12km
photo of Lourdes
Lourdes 25km
photo of Laruns
Laruns 27km
photo of Tarbes
Tarbes 30km
photo of Orthez
Orthez 50km

See France This Way travel guides for Pyrenees-Atlantiques and Aquitaine (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Saint-Abit.

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

Saint-Abit 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 Aquitaine and Pyrenees-Atlantiques gites and villas

Markets near Saint-Abit

  • Gan: market every Wednesday (8km)
  • Pau: market every every day except Sunday (12km)
  • Castet: market every Thursday (18km)
  • Lourdes: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday all day & Saturday all day & Monday & Friday (24km)
  • Oloron-Sainte-Marie: market every Friday (26km)
  • Monein: market every Monday (26km)
  • Tarbes: market every Thursday all day (30km)
  • Artix: market every Wednesday & Sunday (31km)
  • Mourenx: market every Wednesday & Saturday (32km)
  • Bedous: market every Thursday (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 Saint-Abit and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Saint-Abit map below.

Heritage Site Eglise, Oloron-Sainte-Marie (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (26km); Ourdis-Cotdoussan église St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (31km); Eglise St Blaise (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (39km)

National Monument Marshall Foch house (30km)

Remarkable Garden Jardins du château de Viven (29km); Jardin du château de Momas (30km); Jardin Massey (30km)

Site Of Natural Beauty Grottes de Betharram (14km); Col d'Aubisque (26km); Vallée d'Ossau (27km); Vallée d'Aspe (38km); Grottes de Médous (41km); Col du Tourmalet (49km)

Town Of Art And History Oloron-Sainte-Marie (26km)

Ville Fleurie 4* Pau (12km); Tarbes (30km)

Zoo Or Wildlife Park Zoo d'Asson (9km)

Map of places to visit near Saint-Abit & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Saint-Abit

Canton: Nay-Ouest

Arrondissement: Pau

Department: Pyrenees-Atlantiques

Region: Aquitaine

Postcode: 64800

Distance to Saint-Abit

from Pau (local prefecture): 12 km

from Paris: 660 km

from Calais: 876 km

from Nice: 613 km

from Bordeaux: 183 km

from Strasbourg: 862 km

* distances are direct not by road!

More information

We have 16 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Saint-Abit): Assat, Baliros, Baudreix, Beuste, Boeil-Bezing, Borderes, Bordes, Bosdarros, Bourdettes, Coarraze, Haut-de-Bosdarros, Igon, Lagos, Mirepeix, Narcastet and Pardies-Pietat.

Getting here

Pyrenees-Atlantiques is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into Biarritz airport (Bordeaux is another option). Allow at least 8 hours for the drive from the cross-channel ferries. For driving distances to Saint-Abit from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Saint-Abit