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Hours tourism and travel guide

Visit Hours: highlights and tourist information

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Hours is situated in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department and Aquitaine region (now part of the region), in the south-west of France at 18 kilometres from Pau, the department capital (general information: Hours is 655 kilometres from Paris).

Popular places to visit nearby include Pau at 18 km and Lourdes at 19 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

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Hours, France: places to visit and attractions

Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Hours in .

Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!

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Map of places to visit near Hours

Markets in and near Hours

• Gan: market Wednesday (18km)
• Pau: market every day except Sunday (18km)
• Lourdes: market Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday all day & Saturday all day & Monday & Friday (18km)
• Tarbes: market Thursday all day (20km)
• Vic-en-Bigorre: market Saturday all day (25km)
• Castet: market Thursday (27km)
• Rabastens-de-Bigorre: market Monday (32km)
• Bagneres-de-Bigorre: market Saturday all day (32km)
• Monein: market Monday (35km)
• Oloron-Sainte-Marie: market Friday (36km)

More information about Hours, Aquitaine

Tourist attractions near Hours, France

Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Hours.

Heritage sites

• Ourdis-Cotdoussan église St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (26km)
• Eglise, Oloron-Sainte-Marie (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (36km)
• Jézeau église Saint-Laurent (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (58km)

National Monuments

• Marshall Foch house (20km)

Remarkable gardens

• Jardin Massey (20km)
• Jardins du château de Viven (31km)
• Jardin du château de Momas (33km)

Sites of natural beauty

• Grottes de Betharram (15km)
• Col d'Aubisque (31km)
• Cirque du Litor (32km)
• Grottes de Médous (34km)
• Vallée d'Ossau (34km)
• Cirque du Lys (38km)
• Pont d'Espagne (42km)
• Col du Tourmalet (44km)
• Gouffre d'Esparros (46km)
• Vallée d'Aspe (47km)

Towns of Art and history

• Oloron-Sainte-Marie (36km)

Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)

• Pau (18km)
• Tarbes (20km)

Zoo and/or wildlife park

• Zoo d'Asson (14km)

Geography and distances

Getting here

Hours is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into Biarritz airport (Bordeaux is another option). Allow at least 8 hours for the drive from the cross-channel ferries. For driving distances to Hours from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

We have 15 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Barzun, Benejacq, Beuste, Borderes, Espoey, Gomer, Labatmale, Lagos, Limendous, Livron, Lucgarier, Luquet, Nousty, Pontacq and Soumoulou.

This page in French: Visiter Hours