Saint-Girons travel guide
Visit Saint-Girons: Highlights and Tourist Information
IMPORTANT: this is a summary of local highlights. For detailed visitor information see Saint-Girons travel guide
Location: Saint-Girons is situated in the Ariege department (Midi-Pyrenees region) in the south of France at 38 km from Foix, the department capital. (General information: Saint-Girons is 659 km from Paris and 887 km from the port at Calais).
Market days in Saint-Girons: weekly market: Saturday; (markets take place in the morning unless indicated)
Popular places to visit near Saint-Girons: these include Saint-Lizier at 2 km and Montjoie-en-Couserans at 2 km. Saint Lizier cathédrale (monuments on French pilgrim routes) is a listed heritage site at 2 km and Saint-Lizier is a listed most beautiful village at 2 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-Girons, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Saint-Girons
See France This Way travel guides for Ariege and Midi-Pyrenees (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Saint-Girons.
Note that all distances from Saint-Girons shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Saint-Girons 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 Midi-Pyrenees and Ariege gites and villas
Markets near Saint-Girons
- Saint-Girons: market every Saturday (0km)
- Seix: market every Wednesday - seasonal market only - (14km)
- Salies-du-Salat: market every Monday (20km)
- La Bastide-de-Serou: market every Thursday (23km)
- Cazeres: market every Saturday (26km)
- Aulus-les-Bains: market every Sunday - seasonal market only - (27km)
- Aspet: market every Wednesday & Saturday (28km)
- Lezat-sur-Leze: market every Saturday (36km)
- Saint-Gaudens: market every Thursday (36km)
- Carbonne: market every Thursday (36km)
- Pamiers: market every Tuesday & Saturday (40km)
- Saverdun: market every Friday (45km)
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-Girons and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Saint-Girons map below.
Heritage Site Saint Lizier cathédrale (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (2km); Audressein Église Notre-Dame de Tramesaygues (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (12km)
Most Beautiful Village Saint-Lizier (2km)
Regional Natural Parc Pyrenees Ariegeoises (23km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Vallée de Vicdessos (39km)
Map of places to visit near Saint-Girons & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Saint-Girons
Canton: Saint-Girons
Arrondissement: Saint-Girons
Department: Ariege
Region: Midi-Pyrenees
Postcode: 9200
Distance to Saint-Girons
from Foix (local prefecture): 38 km
from Paris: 659 km
from Calais: 887 km
from Nice: 502 km
from Bordeaux: 248 km
from Strasbourg: 805 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Saint-Girons): Caumont, Encourtiech, Erp, Eycheil, Gajan, Lacourt, Lorp-Sentaraille, Montegut-en-Couserans, Montesquieu-Avantes, Montgauch, Montjoie-en-Couserans, Moulis, Saint-Lizier, Taurignan-Castet and Taurignan-Vieux.
Getting here
For driving distances to Saint-Girons from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Saint-Girons