Avril-sur-Loire travel guide
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Visit Avril-sur-Loire: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Avril-sur-Loire is situated in the Nievre department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 24 km from Nevers, the department capital. (General information: Avril-sur-Loire is 239 km from Paris and 472 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Apremont-sur-Allier at 23 km from Avril-sur-Loire
Popular places to visit near Avril-sur-Loire: these include Apremont-sur-Allier at 23 km and Nevers at 25 km.
Arboretum de Balaine is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 16km and Apremont-sur-Allier is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 23km. 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 Avril-sur-Loire, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Avril-sur-Loire
See France This Way travel guides for Nievre and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Avril-sur-Loire.
Note that all distances from Avril-sur-Loire shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Avril-sur-Loire holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Avril-sur-Loire (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 France and Nievre 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 Avril-sur-Loire and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Arboretum de Balaine (16km) : Forgeneuve (24km) : Parc floral d'Apremont (25km) : Parc et jardin du château du Chatillon en Bazois (34km) : Jardin du château de Limanton (35km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Apremont-sur-Allier (23km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Martin (Ygrande) (35km) : Eglise de Saint Georges (Bourbon-l'Archambault) (35km) : Prieuré de Saint Révérien (Saint-Reverien) (45km) : Abbatiale Notre Dame (La Charite-sur-Loire) (47km) : Abbaye de Notre Dame (Charite-sur-Loire) (47km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Blet) (48km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Nevers (25km) : Moulins (28km) :
Map of places to visit near Avril-sur-Loire & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Avril-sur-Loire
Canton: Decize
Arrondissement: Nevers
Department: Nievre
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 58300
Distance to Avril-sur-Loire
from Nevers: 24 km
from Paris: 239 km
from Calais: 472 km
from Nice: 462 km
from Bordeaux: 376 km
from Strasbourg: 383 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Avril-sur-Loire): Beard, Druy-Parigny, Fleury-sur-Loire, Neuville-les-Decize, Saint-Germain-Chassenay and Sougy-sur-Loire.
Getting here
Nievre is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car or drive from a channel ferry port, operhaps Calais or Dunkirk at about 5 - 6 hours. For driving distances to Avril-sur-Loire from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Avril-sur-Loire