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Pau travel guide

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Visit Pau: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Pau is situated in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France - it is the prefecture (capital) of the Pyrenees-Atlantiques department. (General information: Pau is 653 km from Paris and 867 km from the port at Calais).

For a detailed travel guide see Pau (page also includes a photo gallery for Pau)

Popular places to visit near Pau: these include Pau at 1 km and Oloron-Sainte-Marie at 22 km. Jardin du château de Momas is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 18km and Jardins du château de Viven is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 19km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

Tourist classifications for Pau: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 4*; Part of the Pays d'art et d'histoire de Béarn region;

Selected places to visit and attractions near Pau, France

Distances shown are direct, driving distances will be greater.

Pau 1km

Oloron-Sainte-Marie 22km

Laruns 35km

Tarbes 36km

Lourdes 36km

Maubourguet 38km

Orthez 39km

Sauveterre-de-Bearn 47km

Salies-de-Bearn 49km

Things to see in Pau and nearby

Places with 'official' tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit near Pau

'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du château de Momas (18km) : Jardins du château de Viven (19km) : Jardin Massey (37km) :
National Monuments: Marshall Foch house (36km) :
Town / village in bloom 4*: Tarbes (36km) : Hagetmau (44km) :
Towns of Art and History: Oloron-Sainte-Marie (23km) :