Salernes travel guide
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Visit Salernes: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Salernes is situated in the Var department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 55 km from Toulon, the department capital. (General information: Salernes is 660 km from Paris and 885 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Salernes
Popular places to visit near Salernes: these include Salernes at 1 km and Entrecasteaux at 5 km.
Tourtour is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 6km and Thoronet Abbey is a listed 'national monument' at 12km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Salernes, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Salernes
See France This Way travel guides for Var and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Salernes.
Note that all distances from Salernes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Salernes holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Salernes (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 Provence and Var 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 Salernes and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin d’Elie Alexis (32km) : Clos de Villeneuve (37km) : Jardin Germaine l’Hardy-Denonain (47km) : Jardin d’oiseaux tropicaux (47km) : Domaine du Rayol (49km) :
- National Monuments: Thoronet Abbey (12km) : Frejus Cathedral cloisters (43km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Tourtour (6km) : Moustiers (32km) : Seillans (34km) : Gassin (47km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye du Thoronet (Le Thoronet) (14km) : Cathédrale Saint Léonce (Frejus) (43km) : Eglise de St Raphaël (Saint-Raphael) (46km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Bormes-les-Mimosas (47km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Frejus (43km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Grimaud (40km) :
- Grand Site of France: Gorges du Verdon (22km) : Montagne Sainte-Victoire (48km) :
Map of places to visit near Salernes & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Salernes
Canton: Salernes
Arrondissement: Draguignan
Department: Var
Region: Provence
Postcode: 83690
Distance to Salernes
from Toulon: 55 km
from Paris: 660 km
from Calais: 885 km
from Nice: 85 km
from Bordeaux: 561 km
from Strasbourg: 570 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 4 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Salernes): Entrecasteaux, Sillans-la-Cascade, Tourtour and Villecroze.
Getting here
Var is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into the airports at Nice or Toulon. To drive from the channel ports allow about 11 hours driving time. For driving distances to Salernes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Salernes