Urs travel guide
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Visit Urs: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Urs is situated in the Ariege department (Midi-Pyrenees region) in the south of France at 24 km from Foix, the department capital. (General information: Urs is 678 km from Paris and 909 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Ax-les-Thermes at 11 km from Urs
Popular places to visit near Urs: these include Ax-les-Thermes at 11 km and Montsegur at 14 km.
Fontaine Intermittente de Fontestorbes is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 22km and Vallée de Vicdessos is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 24km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Urs, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Urs
See France This Way travel guides for Ariege and Midi-Pyrenees (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Urs.
Note that all distances from Urs shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Urs holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Urs (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 Midi-Pyrenees and Ariege 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 Urs and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc aux Bambous (41km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Camon (33km) :
Map of places to visit near Urs & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Urs
Canton: Cabannes
Arrondissement: Foix
Department: Ariege
Region: Midi-Pyrenees
Postcode: 09310
Distance to Urs
from Foix: 24 km
from Paris: 678 km
from Calais: 909 km
from Nice: 460 km
from Bordeaux: 295 km
from Strasbourg: 797 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 25 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Urs): Albies, Appy, Aston, Aulos, Axiat, Bestiac, Caussou, Caychax, Chateau-Verdun, Garanou, Larcat, Lassur, Les Cabannes, Lordat, Luzenac, Pech, Perles-et-Castelet, Senconac, Sinsat, Tignac, Unac, Vaychis, Vebre, Verdun and Vernaux.
Getting here
For driving distances to Urs from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Urs