Urbes travel guide
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Visit Urbes: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Urbes is situated in the Haut-Rhin department (Alsace region) in the north-east of France at 37 km from Colmar, the department capital. (General information: Urbes is 357 km from Paris and 502 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Murbach at 16 km from Urbes
Popular places to visit near Urbes: these include Murbach at 16 km and Guebwiller at 19 km.
Parc de Wesserling is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 3km and Ballon d'Alsace is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 10km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Urbes: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 1*;
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Urbes, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Urbes
See France This Way travel guides for Haut-Rhin and Alsace (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Urbes.
Note that all distances from Urbes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Urbes holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Urbes (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 Alsace and Haut-Rhin 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 Urbes and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc de Wesserling (3km) : Jardin d'altitude du Haut-Chitelet (19km) : Roseraie du Chatelet (20km) : Parc de la Marseillaise (20km) : Parc Alfred-Wallach (34km) : Parc botanique de Mulhouse (34km) : Parc du domaine de Schoppenwihr (40km) : Jardin botanique de Gondremer (49km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Riquewihr (41km) : Hunawihr (43km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Masevaux (13km) : Rougegoutte (18km) : Guebwiller (20km) : Soultzmatt (23km) : Belfort (28km) : Eguisheim (32km) : Sausheim (33km) : Colmar (37km) : Hirtzbach (38km) : Moffans-et-Vacheresse (42km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Mulhouse (32km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Thann (14km) : Plombieres-les-Bains (38km) :
Map of places to visit near Urbes & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Urbès
Canton: Saint-Amarin
Arrondissement: Thann
Department: Haut-Rhin
Region: Alsace
Postcode: 68121
Distance to Urbes
from Colmar: 37 km
from Paris: 357 km
from Calais: 502 km
from Nice: 465 km
from Bordeaux: 669 km
from Strasbourg: 98 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Urbes): Fellering, Husseren-Wesserling, Kruth, Mitzach, Mollau, Oderen, Ranspach and Storckensohn.
Getting here
Haut-Rhin is in the north-east of France. Most visitors fly into Paris or drive from one of the channel port - Calais and Dunkirk are around 6 hours distance. For driving distances to Urbes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Urbes