Selestat travel guide
Visit Selestat: Highlights and Tourist Information
IMPORTANT: this is a summary of local highlights. For detailed visitor information see Selestat travel guide
Location: Selestat is situated in the Bas-Rhin department (Alsace region) in the north-east of France at 42 km from Strasbourg, the department capital. (General information: Selestat is 381 km from Paris and 502 km from the port at Calais).
Market days in Selestat: weekly market: Tuesday & Saturday; (markets take place in the morning unless indicated)
Popular places to visit near Selestat: these include Kintzheim at 4 km and Chateau du Haut-Koenigsbourg at 8 km. Cigoland is a listed zoo or wildlife park at 2 km and Parc du château de Kintzheim is a listed remarkable garden at 4 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 Selestat, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Selestat
See France This Way travel guides for Bas-Rhin and Alsace (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Selestat.
Note that all distances from Selestat shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Selestat 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 Alsace and Bas-Rhin gites and villas
Markets near Selestat
- Selestat: market every Tuesday & Saturday (0km)
- Ribeauville: market every Saturday (12km)
- Ville: market every Wednesday (14km)
- Riquewihr: market every Friday (15km)
- Barr: market every Saturday (16km)
- Benfeld: market every Monday (17km)
- Kaysersberg: market every Monday & Friday (19km)
- Colmar: market every Wednesday & Thursday & Saturday (21km)
- Obernai: market every Thursday (23km)
- Turckheim: market every Friday (23km)
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 Selestat and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Selestat map below.
Heritage Site Neuf-Brisach ville neuve (Vauban fortifications) (28km); Strasbourg Grand Ile (42km)
Most Beautiful Village Hunawihr (13km); Mittelbergheim (15km); Riquewihr (15km); Eguisheim (26km)
Recommended Detour Obernai (23km)
Remarkable Garden Parc du château de Kintzheim (4km); Parc du domaine de Schoppenwihr (16km); Domaine du Windeck (22km); Le jardin de Marguerite (31km); Jardins de Callunes (33km); Jardin du chateau de Kolbsheim (35km); Jardin d'altitude du Haut-Chitelet (40km); Jardin botanique de l'université de Strasbourg (42km); Parc de la Marseillaise (43km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Colmar (21km); Strasbourg (41km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Hohneck (40km)
Town Of Art And History Strasbourg (42km); Guebwiller (43km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Bergheim (9km); Itterswiller (12km); Ribeauville (12km); Marckolsheim (13km); Diebolsheim (16km); Colmar (21km); Eguisheim (26km); Soultzmatt (37km); Guebwiller (43km); Bischheim (45km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Cigoland (2km)
Map of places to visit near Selestat & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sélestat
Canton: Sélestat
Arrondissement: Sélestat-Erstein
Department: Bas-Rhin
Region: Alsace
Postcode: 67600
Distance to Selestat
from Strasbourg (local prefecture): 42 km
from Paris: 381 km
from Calais: 502 km
from Nice: 507 km
from Bordeaux: 721 km
from Strasbourg: 42 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Selestat): Chatenois, Dieffenthal, Ebersheim, Ebersmunster, Kintzheim, Mussig, Orschwiller and Scherwiller.
Getting here
Bas-Rhin is in the north-east of France. Most visitors fly into Paris or drive from one of the channel ports such as Calais or Dunkirk (allow around 6 hours) For driving distances to Selestat from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Selestat