Aboen travel guide
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Visit Aboen: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Aboen is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 21 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: Aboen is 406 km from Paris and 638 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint-Etienne at 20 km from Aboen
Popular places to visit near Aboen: these include Saint-Etienne at 20 km and Sainte-Croix-en-Jarez at 24 km.
Jardin de l’écomusée is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 15km and Saint-Etienne is a listed 'town of art and history' at 21km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Aboen, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Aboen
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Aboen.
Note that all distances from Aboen shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Aboen holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Aboen (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 Rhone-Alpes and Loire 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 Aboen and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin de l’écomusée (15km) :
- National Monuments: Le Puy en Velay Cathedral (45km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Georges (Saint-Paulien) (37km) : Prieuré de Saint Julien (Saint-Julien-Chapteuil) (42km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame et church de Saint-Michel (Le Puy-en-Velay) (45km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Galmier (24km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Saint-Etienne (21km) : Le Puy en Velay (45km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Ambert (34km) : Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (35km) : Le Puy-en-Velay (45km) :
Map of places to visit near Aboen & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Aboën
Canton: Saint-Bonnet-le-Château
Arrondissement: Montbrison
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42380
Distance to Aboen
from Saint-Etienne: 21 km
from Paris: 406 km
from Calais: 638 km
from Nice: 313 km
from Bordeaux: 375 km
from Strasbourg: 447 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Aboen): La Tourette, Luriecq, Perigneux, Rozier-Cotes-d'Aurec, Saint-Bonnet-le-Chateau, Saint-Maurice-en-Gourgois and Saint-Nizier-de-Fornas.
Getting here
For driving distances to Aboen from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Aboen