Avenas travel guide
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Visit Avenas: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Avenas is situated in the Rhone department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 51 km from Lyon, the department capital. (General information: Avenas is 341 km from Paris and 566 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Solutre-Pouilly at 15 km from Avenas
Popular places to visit near Avenas: these include Solutre-Pouilly at 15 km and Belleville at 15 km.
Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson is a listed 'grand site of france' at 14km and Parc du château de Laye is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 17km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Avenas, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Avenas
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Avenas.
Note that all distances from Avenas shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Avenas holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Avenas (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 Rhone 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 Avenas and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Laye (17km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (19km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (26km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (28km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (35km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (38km) : Jardin du château de Digoine (49km) :
- National Monuments: Brou Royal Monastery (48km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Oingt (27km) : Semur-en-Brionnais (40km) :
- Religious monuments: Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (19km) : Eglise de Saint Blaise (Mazille) (22km) : Eglise de Jalogny (Jalogny) (25km) : Abbaye de Cluny (Cluny) (27km) : Eglise de Saint Denis (Massy) (32km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (32km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (34km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (38km) : Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (38km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (40km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Macon (21km) : Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (28km) : Vonnas (30km) : Paray-le-Monial (47km) : Ecully (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (31km) : Charlieu (34km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (14km) :
Map of places to visit near Avenas & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Avenas
Canton: Beaujeu
Arrondissement: Villefranche-sur-Saône
Department: Rhone
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 69430
Distance to Avenas
from Lyon: 51 km
from Paris: 341 km
from Calais: 566 km
from Nice: 347 km
from Bordeaux: 431 km
from Strasbourg: 356 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 11 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Avenas): Beaujeu, Chiroubles, Emeringes, Jullie, Lantignie, Les Ardillats, Ouroux, Saint-Didier-sur-Beaujeu, Vauxrenard, Vernay and Villie-Morgon.
Getting here
For driving distances to Avenas from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Avenas