Benais travel guide
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Visit Benais: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Benais is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 38 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Benais is 235 km from Paris and 423 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Chinon at 12 km from Benais
Popular places to visit near Benais: these include Chinon at 12 km and Candes-Saint-Martin at 14 km.
Loire-Anjou-Touraine is a listed 'regional natural parc' at 12km and Chinon is a listed 'town of art and history' at 12km. 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 Benais, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Benais
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 Benais.
Note that all distances from Benais shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Benais holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Benais (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 Benais and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc de Lathan (20km) : Les jardins de la Chatonnière (20km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (24km) : Les jardins du château du Rivau (26km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (36km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (38km) : Parc et jardins du château du Lude (39km) :
- National Monuments: Fontevraud Abbey (17km) : Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (20km) : Cloisters of la Psalette (38km) : Oiron Chateau (44km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Candes-Saint-Martin (14km) : Montsoreau (15km) : Crissay-sur-Manse (27km) :
- Religious monuments: Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (14km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (17km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (34km) : Prieuré de Notre-Dame de Cunault (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (34km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (36km) : Thouars (48km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Chinon (12km) : Tours (38km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Montreuil-Bellay (33km) : Loudun (33km) : La Fleche (49km) :
Map of places to visit near Benais & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Benais
Canton: Bourgueil
Arrondissement: Chinon
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 37140
Distance to Benais
from Tours: 38 km
from Paris: 235 km
from Calais: 423 km
from Nice: 680 km
from Bordeaux: 280 km
from Strasbourg: 579 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 4 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Benais): Bourgueil, Ingrandes-de-Touraine, La Chapelle-sur-Loire and Restigne.
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 Benais from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Benais