Barrou travel guide
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Visit Barrou: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Barrou is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 59 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Barrou is 251 km from Paris and 461 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Angles-sur-l'Anglin at 21 km from Barrou
Popular places to visit near Barrou: these include Angles-sur-l'Anglin at 21 km and Loches at 32 km.
Angles-sur-l'Anglin is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 21km and Loches is a listed 'town of art and history' at 32km. 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 Barrou, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Barrou
See France This Way travel guides for Indre-et-Loire and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Barrou.
Note that all distances from Barrou shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Barrou holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Barrou (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 Indre-et-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 Barrou and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins du château du Rivau (41km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Angles-sur-l'Anglin (21km) : Crissay-sur-Manse (38km) : Montresor (46km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chauvigny) (34km) : Abbaye de Saint Savin sur Gartempe (Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe) (34km) : Eglise de Notre Dame la Grande (Poitiers) (45km) : Eglise de Saint Gervais et Saint Protais (Civaux) (47km) : Abbaye de Nouaillé-Mauperthuis (Nouaille-Maupertuis) (48km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame (Montmorillon) (49km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Loches (32km) : Poitiers (46km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Chauvigny (34km) :
Map of places to visit near Barrou & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Barrou
Canton: Grand-Pressigny
Arrondissement: Loches
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 37350
Distance to Barrou
from Tours: 59 km
from Paris: 251 km
from Calais: 461 km
from Nice: 618 km
from Bordeaux: 248 km
from Strasbourg: 556 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Barrou): Chambon, La Guerche, Lesigny, Leugny and Maire.
Getting here
Indre-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to Barrou from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Barrou