Breel travel guide
Visit Breel: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Falaise at 17 km from Breel
Location: Breel is situated in the Orne department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 55 km from Alencon, the department capital. (General information: Breel is 201 km from Paris and 287 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Breel: these include Falaise at 17 km and Argentan at 28 km. Argentan is a listed recommended detour at 28 km and Jardins du château de Vendeuvre is a listed remarkable garden at 30 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 Breel, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Breel
See France This Way travel guides for Orne and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Breel.
Note that all distances from Breel shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Breel 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 Normandy and Orne gites and villas
Markets near Breel
- Conde-sur-Noireau: market every Thursday (12km)
- Briouze: market every Monday (13km)
- Flers: market every Wednesday & Saturday (15km)
- Falaise: market every Saturday (17km)
- Thury-Harcourt: market every Tuesday (20km)
- La Ferte-Mace: market every Thursday (25km)
- Argentan: market every Tuesday & Friday (28km)
- Bagnoles-de-l'Orne: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (29km)
- Aunay-sur-Odon: market every Saturday (29km)
- Trun: market every Thursday (31km)
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 Breel and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Breel map below.
National Monument Carrouges Chateau (33km)
Recommended Detour Argentan (28km); Domfront (31km)
Regional Natural Parc Normandie-Maine (38km)
Remarkable Garden Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (30km); Sassy (34km)
Village D'etape Villers-Bocage (35km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saint-Fraimbault (43km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Parc zoologique de Jurques (34km)
Map of places to visit near Breel & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Bréel
Canton: Athis-de-l'Orne
Arrondissement: Argentan
Department: Orne
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 61100
Distance to Breel
from Alencon (local prefecture): 55 km
from Paris: 201 km
from Calais: 287 km
from Nice: 818 km
from Bordeaux: 442 km
from Strasbourg: 598 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 18 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Breel): Cahan, Chenedouit, La Carneille, La Foret-Auvray, La Lande-Saint-Simeon, Le Detroit, Le Mesnil-Villement, Les IsLes Bardel, Menil-Hermei, Menil-Hubert-sur-Orne, Menil-Vin, Notre-Dame-du-Rocher, Rapilly, Saint-Aubert-sur-Orne, Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne, Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume, Segrie-Fontaine and Taillebois.
Getting here
Orne is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-challen ferry ports with Caen being especially close, typically within an hours drive. For driving distances to Breel from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Breel