Sorel travel guide
Visit Sorel: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Cambrai at 20 km from Sorel
Location: Sorel is situated in the Somme department (Picardy region) in the north of France at 48 km from Amiens, the department capital. (General information: Sorel is 140 km from Paris and 133 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Sorel: these include Cambrai at 20 km and Saint-Quentin at 26 km. Guyencourt-Saulcourt is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 4 km and Eglise de Notre Dame de Vaucelles (Les Rues-des-Vignes) is a listed religious monument at 16 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 Sorel, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Sorel
See France This Way travel guides for Somme and Picardy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Sorel.
Note that all distances from Sorel shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Sorel 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 Picardy and Somme gites and villas
Markets near Sorel
- Peronne: market every Saturday (13km)
- Bapaume: market every Friday (16km)
- Cambrai: market every Wednesday & Saturday (21km)
- Saint-Quentin: market every Wednesday & Sunday & Friday (27km)
- Fresnoy-le-Grand: market every Monday (27km)
- Caudry: market every Tuesday & Friday (28km)
- Albert: market every Saturday (29km)
- Bohain-en-Vermandois: market every Friday (29km)
- Avesnes-les-Aubert: market every Thursday & Sunday (30km)
- Ham: market every Saturday (31km)
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 Sorel and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Sorel map below.
Heritage Site Beffroi de Cambrai (Belfries of Belgium and France) (21km); Arras citadelle (Vauban fortifications) (35km); Beffroi et hôtel de ville d'Arras (Belfries of Belgium and France) (35km); Beffroi de Douai (Belfries of Belgium and France) (38km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Notre Dame de Vaucelles (Les Rues-des-Vignes) (16km)
Town Of Art And History Cambrai (20km); Saint-Quentin (26km); Arras (35km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Guyencourt-Saulcourt (4km); Gauchy (27km); Arras (35km); Mastaing (36km)
Map of places to visit near Sorel & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sorel
Canton: Roisel
Arrondissement: Péronne
Department: Somme
Region: Picardy
Postcode: 80240
Distance to Sorel
from Amiens (local prefecture): 48 km
from Paris: 140 km
from Calais: 133 km
from Nice: 772 km
from Bordeaux: 638 km
from Strasbourg: 376 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Sorel): Aizecourt-le-Bas, Epehy, Equancourt, Etricourt-Manancourt, Fins, Gouzeaucourt, Guyencourt-Saulcourt, Heudicourt, Lechelle, Lieramont, Metz-en-Couture, Neuville-Bourjonval, Nurlu, Villers-Faucon and Ytres.
Getting here
Somme is in the north of France. Most visitors take a a cross-channel ferry to a nearby port such as Dieppe or Boulogne or the channel tunnel to Calais. For driving distances to Sorel from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Sorel