Saint-Omer travel guide
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Visit Saint-Omer: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Saint-Omer is situated in the Pas-de-Calais department (Nord-Pas-de-Calais region) in the north of France at 62 km from Arras, the department capital. (General information: Saint-Omer is 210 km from Paris and 36 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Saint-Omer
Popular places to visit near Saint-Omer: these include Saint-Omer at 1 km and Aire-sur-la-Lys at 15 km.
Saint-Omer is a listed 'town of art and history' at 1km and La ferme du mont des Récollets is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 18km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Saint-Omer: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 3*;
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Saint-Omer, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Saint-Omer
See France This Way travel guides for Pas-de-Calais and Nord-Pas-de-Calais (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Saint-Omer.
Note that all distances from Saint-Omer shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Saint-Omer holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Saint-Omer (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 Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Pas-de-Calais 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 Saint-Omer and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': La ferme du mont des Récollets (18km) :
- National Monuments: Column of the Grand Army (45km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint-Saulve (Montreuil-sur-Mer) (46km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Loon-Plage (28km) : Grande-Synthe (31km) : Boulogne-sur-Mer (46km) : Montreuil-sur-Mer (47km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Saint-Omer (1km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Bergues (28km) : Gravelines (29km) : Montreuil (47km) :
- Grand Site of France: Cap Blanc-Nez / Cap Gris-Nez (43km) :
Map of places to visit near Saint-Omer & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Saint-Omer
Canton: Saint-Omer
Arrondissement: Saint-Omer
Department: Pas-de-Calais
Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Postcode: 62500
Distance to Saint-Omer
from Arras: 62 km
from Paris: 210 km
from Calais: 36 km
from Nice: 869 km
from Bordeaux: 690 km
from Strasbourg: 462 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 20 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Saint-Omer): Arques, Blendecques, Campagne-les-Wardrecques, Clairmarais, Esquerdes, Hallines, Helfaut, Heuringhem, Longuenesse, Moulle, Nieurlet, Saint-Martin-Au-Laert, Saint-Momelin, Salperwick, Serques, Tatinghem, Tilques, Wardrecques, Wisques and Wizernes.
Getting here
For driving distances to Saint-Omer from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Saint-Omer