Vallauris travel guide
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Visit Vallauris: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Vallauris is situated in the Alpes-Maritimes department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 22 km from Nice, the department capital. (General information: Vallauris is 689 km from Paris and 908 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Valmasque Parc at 3 km from Vallauris
Popular places to visit near Vallauris: these include Valmasque Parc at 3 km and Cannes at 4 km.
Cannes is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 4km and Abbaye de Lerins (Cannes) is a listed 'religious monument' at 5km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Vallauris: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 2*;
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Vallauris, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Vallauris
See France This Way travel guides for Alpes-Maritimes and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Vallauris.
Note that all distances from Vallauris shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Vallauris holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Vallauris (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 Provence and Alpes-Maritimes 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 Vallauris and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin botanique de la villa Thuret (6km) : Parc du château de la Napoule (11km) : Jardin de la Villa Fort de France (15km) : Jardin botanique (22km) : Le Vallon du Brec (24km) : Jardins Ephrussi de Rothschild (26km) : Serre de la Madone (42km) : La citronneraie (42km) : Palais Carnolès (42km) :
- National Monuments: Frejus Cathedral cloisters (30km) : Trophy of Augustus (34km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Gourdon (17km) : Seillans (33km) : Coaraze (37km) : Sainte-Agnes (41km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de Lerins (Cannes) (5km) : Eglise de St Raphaël (Saint-Raphael) (28km) : Cathédrale Saint Léonce (Frejus) (30km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cannes (4km) : Nice (22km) : Menton (43km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Grasse (14km) : Frejus (30km) :
Map of places to visit near Vallauris & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Vallauris
Canton: Vallauris-Antibes-Ouest
Arrondissement: Grasse
Department: Alpes-Maritimes
Region: Provence
Postcode: 06220
Distance to Vallauris
from Nice: 22 km
from Paris: 689 km
from Calais: 908 km
from Nice: 22 km
from Bordeaux: 624 km
from Strasbourg: 559 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Vallauris): Antibes, Biot, Cannes, Juan-les-Pins, Le Cannet and Mougins.
Getting here
Alpes-Maritimes is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into Nice airport. Coming from the UK by car the route takes about 12 hours (can be busy in summer). For driving distances to Vallauris from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Vallauris