Occitanie
Gard
Arrondissement of Alès

Alès

Alès is a small town in , . Although known as the capital of the Cevennes, you may have a hard time getting to Alès, partly because it's off the well-trod tourist track, and partly because everyone will assume you want to go to nearby, and bigger, .
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  • Type: Town with 43,900 residents
  • Description: commune in Gard, Occitanie, France
  • Also known as: “30007” and “Alais”
  • Postal code: 30100

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alès station and Alès Cathedral.

Railway station
Photo: Vpe, Public domain.
is a railway station serving the town Alès, department, southern . It lies on the "Ligne des " railway line from Clermont-Ferrand to Nîmes. The station is served by regional trains to Clermont-Ferrand, Mende and Nîmes.

Church
Photo: Vpe, Public domain.
is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist and located in the town of Alès in the department of , . It has been a monument historique since 9 May 1914.

Tourism office
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is a tourism office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saint-Jean-du-Pin and Saint-Martin-de-Valgalgues.

Village
Photo: JBouchez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in southern .

Village
Photo: Vpe, Public domain.
is a commune in the department in southern . is situated 4 km north of Alès.

Village
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is a commune in the department in southern . is situated 4 km northwest of Alès.

Alès

Latitude
44.1254° or 44° 7′ 31″ north
Longitude
4.0853° or 4° 5′ 7″ east
Population
43,900
Elevation
141 metres (463 feet)
Open location code
8FP643GP+44
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26691643
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6455357
Wiki­data ID
Q193183
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Alès” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Alès”
  • Arabic: “أليس”
  • Aragonese: “Alès”
  • Armenian: “Ալես”
  • Arpitan: “Alès”
  • Asturian: “Alès”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ales”
  • Bambara: “Alès”
  • Basque: “Alès”
  • Bavarian: “Alès”
  • Belarusian: “Алес (Францыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Алес”
  • Breton: “Alès”
  • Buginese: “Alès”
  • Cajun French: “Alès”
  • Catalan: “Ales”
  • Catalan: “Alèst”
  • Cebuano: “Alès”
  • Chechen: “Алес (ГагӀ)”
  • Chechen: “Алес”
  • Chinese: “Alès”
  • Chinese: “阿莱斯”
  • Chinese: “阿萊斯”
  • Chuvash: “Алес”
  • Corsican: “Alès”
  • Croatian: “Alès”
  • Czech: “Alès”
  • Danish: “Alès”
  • Dutch: “Ales”
  • Dutch: “Alés”
  • Dutch: “Alès”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اليس”
  • Esperanto: “Alès”
  • Estonian: “Alès”
  • Faroese: “Alès”
  • Finnish: “Alès”
  • French: “Alais”
  • French: “Alès-en-Cévennes”
  • French: “Alès”
  • French: “Ville d’Alès-en-Cévennes”
  • Friulian: “Alès”
  • Galician: “Alès”
  • German: “Alès”
  • Greek: “Αλές”
  • Hausa: “Alès”
  • Hebrew: “אלס”
  • Hungarian: “Alès”
  • Icelandic: “Alès”
  • Ido: “Alès”
  • Indonesian: “Alès”
  • Interlingua: “Alès”
  • Interlingue: “Alès”
  • Irish: “Alès”
  • Italian: “Alès”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Alès”
  • Japanese: “アレス”
  • Kabyle: “Alès”
  • Kalaallisut: “Alès”
  • Kazakh: “Алес”
  • Kongo: “Alès”
  • Korean: “알레스”
  • Kurdish: “Alès”
  • Ladin: “Alès”
  • Latin: “Alestum”
  • Latvian: “Alès”
  • Latvian: “Alesa”
  • Ligurian: “Alès”
  • Limburgan: “Alès”
  • Lingala: “Alès”
  • Lithuanian: “Alesas”
  • Lombard: “Alès”
  • Low German: “Alès”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alès-en-Cévennes”
  • Luxembourgish: “Alès”
  • Macedonian: “Алес”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Alès”
  • Malagasy: “Alès”
  • Malay: “Alès”
  • Mazanderani: “اله”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Alès”
  • Minangkabau: “Alès”
  • Narom: “Alès”
  • Neapolitan: “Alès”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Alès”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Alès”
  • Norwegian: “Alès”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Alès”
  • Pampanga: “Alès”
  • Papiamento: “Alès”
  • Persian: “آلس”
  • Persian: “الس”
  • Persian: “اله”
  • Picard: “Alès”
  • Piemontese: “Alès”
  • Polish: “Alès”
  • Portuguese: “Alès”
  • Prussian: “Alès”
  • Romagnol: “Alès”
  • Romanian: “Ales”
  • Romanian: “Alès”
  • Romansh: “Alès”
  • Russian: “Алес (Франция)”
  • Russian: “Алес”
  • Russian: “Алэ”
  • Sardinian: “Alès”
  • Scots: “Alès”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Alès”
  • Serbian: “Ale”
  • Serbian: “Alès”
  • Serbian: “Але”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Alès”
  • Sicilian: “Alès”
  • Silesian: “Alès”
  • Slovak: “Alès”
  • Slovenian: “Ales”
  • Slovenian: “Alès”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آلس”
  • Spanish: “Ales”
  • Spanish: “Alès”
  • Swahili: “Alès”
  • Swedish: “Alès”
  • Swiss German: “Alès”
  • Tatar: “Алес (Франция)”
  • Tatar: “Алес”
  • Thai: “อาแล็ส”
  • Turkish: “Alès”
  • Ukrainian: “Алес”
  • Uzbek: “Alès”
  • Venetian: “Alès”
  • Vietnamese: “Alès”
  • Vlaams: “Alès”
  • Volapük: “Alès”
  • Walloon: “Alès”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Alès”
  • Welsh: “Alès”
  • Wolof: “Alès”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿莱斯（加尔省）”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿莱斯”
  • Yue Chinese: “Alès”
  • Zulu: “Alès”
  • “Alès”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Alès”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY 2.5.