Benet travel guide
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Visit Benet: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Benet is situated in the Vendee department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the west of France at 72 km from La Roche-sur-Yon, the department capital. (General information: Benet is 354 km from Paris and 540 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Coulon at 5 km from Benet
Popular places to visit near Benet: these include Coulon at 5 km and Marais Poitevin at 7 km.
Eglise de Saint-Eulalie (Benet) is a listed 'religious monument' at 1km and Coulon is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 5km. 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 Benet, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Benet
See France This Way travel guides for Vendee and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Benet.
Note that all distances from Benet shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Benet holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Benet (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 Vendee 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 Benet and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': La Guyonnière (36km) : Arboretum du chemin de la découverte (38km) : Jardins du Bâtiment (38km) : Jardins de Chaligny (47km) :
- National Monuments: Sanxay (48km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Coulon (5km) : Vouvant (26km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint-Eulalie (Benet) (1km) : Abbaye Royale (Nieul-sur-l'Autise) (9km) : Abbaye Saint Pierre et Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Maillezais) (11km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame de l'Assomption (Maille) (15km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame (Vouvant) (26km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Dampierre-sur-Boutonne) (36km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Melle) (38km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Aulnay) (43km) : Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Marans (31km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Parthenay (41km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Fontenay-le-Comte (19km) :
- Grand Site of France: Marais Poitevin (7km) :
Map of places to visit near Benet & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Benet
Canton: Maillezais
Arrondissement: Fontenay-le-Comte
Department: Vendee
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 85490
Distance to Benet
from La Roche-sur-Yon: 72 km
from Paris: 354 km
from Calais: 540 km
from Nice: 685 km
from Bordeaux: 170 km
from Strasbourg: 674 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 Benet): Coulon, Le Mazeau, Oulmes, Saint-Remy and Villiers-en-Plaine.
Getting here
Vendee is in the west of France. Most visitors arrive by car from a cross-channel ferry port - Saint Malo is convenient at around 3 hours drive. For driving distances to Benet from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Benet