Ambierle travel guide
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Visit Ambierle: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Ambierle is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 82 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: Ambierle is 327 km from Paris and 559 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Semur-en-Brionnais at 23 km from Ambierle
Popular places to visit near Ambierle: these include Semur-en-Brionnais at 23 km and Lapalisse at 26 km.
Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) is a listed 'religious monument' at 18km and Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) is a listed 'religious monument' at 18km. 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 Ambierle, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Ambierle
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Ambierle.
Note that all distances from Ambierle shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Ambierle holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Ambierle (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 Ambierle and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (33km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (34km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (39km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (39km) : Parc du domaine royal de Randan (43km) :
- National Monuments: Aulteribe Chateau (48km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Semur-en-Brionnais (23km) :
- Religious monuments: Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (18km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (18km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (22km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (23km) : Prieuré d'Anzy-le-Duc (Anzy-le-Duc) (27km) : Eglise de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Neuilly-en-Donjon) (27km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) (30km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (33km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (39km) : Basilique du Sacré-Cœur (Paray-le-Monial) (42km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Vichy (36km) : Paray-le-Monial (42km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (22km) : Lapalisse (26km) :
Map of places to visit near Ambierle & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Ambierle
Canton: Saint-Haon-le-Châtel
Arrondissement: Roanne
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42820
Distance to Ambierle
from Saint-Etienne: 82 km
from Paris: 327 km
from Calais: 559 km
from Nice: 377 km
from Bordeaux: 376 km
from Strasbourg: 400 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Ambierle): Changy, Renaison, Saint-Bonnet-Des-Quarts, Saint-Forgeux-Lespinasse, Saint-Haon-le-Chatel, Saint-Haon-le-Vieux and Saint-Rirand.
Getting here
For driving distances to Ambierle from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Ambierle