Valavoire travel guide
Visit Valavoire: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Sisteron at 14 km from Valavoire
Location: Valavoire is situated in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 25 km from Digne-les-Bains, the department capital. (General information: Valavoire is 583 km from Paris and 806 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Valavoire: these include Sisteron at 14 km and Seyne-les-Alpes at 24 km. Sisteron is a listed recommended detour at 14 km and Domaine de Charance is a listed remarkable garden at 33 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 Valavoire, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Valavoire
See France This Way travel guides for Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Valavoire.
Note that all distances from Valavoire shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Valavoire 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 Provence and Alpes-de-Haute-Provence gites and villas
Markets near Valavoire
- Sisteron: market every Wednesday & Saturday (14km)
- Laragne-Monteglin: market every Thursday (20km)
- Chateau-Arnoux-Saint-Auban: market every Sunday (22km)
- Seyne: market every Tuesday & Friday (24km)
- Digne-les-Bains: market every Wednesday (25km)
- Montclar: market every Sunday - seasonal market only - (25km)
- Les Mees: market every Friday (29km)
- Gap: market every Wednesday & Saturday (31km)
- Serres: market every Saturday (33km)
- Chorges: market every Sunday (34km)
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 Valavoire and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Valavoire map below.
Recommended Detour Sisteron (14km)
Religious Monument Prieuré Notre Dame (Ganagobie) (34km)
Remarkable Garden Domaine de Charance (33km); Jardins du château de Sauvan (45km); Jardins du prieuré de Salagon (45km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Lac de Serre-Poncon (35km)
Map of places to visit near Valavoire & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Valavoire
Canton: Motte-du-Caire
Arrondissement: Forcalquier
Department: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Region: Provence
Postcode: 4250
Distance to Valavoire
from Digne-les-Bains (local prefecture): 25 km
from Paris: 583 km
from Calais: 806 km
from Nice: 116 km
from Bordeaux: 530 km
from Strasbourg: 496 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Valavoire): Authon, Chateaufort, Clamensane, Nibles and Saint-Geniez.
Getting here
Alpes-de-Haute-Provence is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into Nice or Marseille airport. Driving is also possible - by car from Calais the drive takes about 11 hours. For driving distances to Valavoire from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Valavoire