Balot travel guide
Visit Balot: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Chatillon-sur-Seine at 13 km from Balot
Location: Balot is situated in the Cote d'Or department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 71 km from Dijon, the department capital. (General information: Balot is 193 km from Paris and 395 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Balot: these include Chatillon-sur-Seine at 13 km and Ancy-le-Franc castle at 20 km. Chatillon-sur-Seine is a listed recommended detour at 13 km and Fontenay Abbey is a listed heritage site at 19 km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
Selected places to visit and attractions near Balot, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Balot
See France This Way travel guides for Cote d'Or and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Balot.
Note that all distances from Balot shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Balot holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see our hotel search (from a leading hotel agent 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 Cote d'Or gites and villas
Markets near Balot
- Chatillon-sur-Seine: market every Saturday (12km)
- Mussy-sur-Seine: market every Thursday (19km)
- Les Riceys: market every Thursday (20km)
- Ancy-le-Franc: market every Thursday (21km)
- Montbard: market every Friday (22km)
- Essoyes: market every Wednesday (28km)
- Venarey-les-Laumes: market every Wednesday (30km)
- Bar-sur-Seine: market every Friday (33km)
- Tonnerre: market every Saturday (34km)
- Chaource: market every Monday (35km)
- Ervy-le-Chatel: market every Friday (46km)
- Avallon: market every Saturday (53km)
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 Balot and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Balot map below.
Grand Site Of France Alesia (31km)
Heritage Site Fontenay Abbey (19km)
Most Beautiful Village Flavigny (34km); Noyers-sur-Serein (35km)
National Monument Bussy-Rabutin Chateau (29km)
Recommended Detour Chatillon-sur-Seine (13km)
Religious Monument Abbaye de Fontenay (Montbard) (22km)
Remarkable Garden Abbaye de Fontenay (19km); Jardin du prieuré (30km); Potager du château de Lantilly (30km); Jardin du moulin de Athie (30km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Neuville-sur-Seine (25km)
Map of places to visit near Balot & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Balot
Canton: Laignes
Arrondissement: Montbard
Department: Cote d'Or
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 21330
Distance to Balot
from Dijon (local prefecture): 71 km
from Paris: 193 km
from Calais: 395 km
from Nice: 507 km
from Bordeaux: 507 km
from Strasbourg: 261 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Balot): Bissey-la-Pierre, Fontaines-les-Seches, Laignes, Marcenay and Nesle-et-Massoult.
Getting here
Cote d'Or is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors drive from one of the channel ports such as Calais or Dunkirk, a drive of about 6 hours, or fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car. For driving distances to Balot from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Balot