Bresdon travel guide
Visit Bresdon: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Tusson at 19 km from Bresdon
Location: Bresdon is situated in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 83 km from La Rochelle, the department capital. (General information: Bresdon is 381 km from Paris and 583 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Bresdon: these include Tusson at 19 km and Jarnac at 22 km. Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) is a listed religious monument at 12 km and Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) is a listed religious monument at 12 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 Bresdon, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Bresdon
See France This Way travel guides for Charente-Maritime and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Bresdon.
Note that all distances from Bresdon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Bresdon 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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente-Maritime gites and villas
Markets near Bresdon
- Matha: market every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday (12km)
- Aulnay: market every Sunday (21km)
- Jarnac: market every every day except Monday (22km)
- Cognac: market every Tuesday & Friday (24km)
- Chef-Boutonne: market every Saturday (27km)
- Brioux-sur-Boutonne: market every Thursday (30km)
- Ruffec: market every Wednesday & Saturday (32km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (34km)
- Sauze-Vaussais: market every Thursday (35km)
- La Couronne: market every Saturday (36km)
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (37km)
- Melle: market every Friday (38km)
- Pons: market every Wednesday and Saturday (45km)
- Chaunay: market every Monday (45km)
- Civray: market every Tuesday & Friday (46km)
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 Bresdon and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Bresdon map below.
Heritage Site Aulnay église St Pierre (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (22km); Saint-Jean-d'Angély, abbaye royale (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (29km); Melle église St Hilaire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (38km); Saintes basilique St Eutrope (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (40km); Pons ancien hopital des pèlerins (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (46km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (12km); Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) (12km); Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (20km); Eglise de Saint Germain (Varaize) (21km); Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (22km); Abbaye de Fontdouce (Saint-Bris-des-Bois) (26km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (26km); Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Dampierre-sur-Boutonne) (29km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (31km); Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) (31km); Eglise de Saint André (Ruffec) (33km); Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (33km); Eglise de Saint-Savinien (Fenioux) (34km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (35km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (35km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (36km); Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (36km); Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (36km); Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes (Saintes) (39km); Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (39km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Saint-Pierre-d'Exideuil) (45km); Eglise de Genouillé (Genouille) (46km); Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Civray) (46km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin monastique médiéval (19km); Jardin du Chaigne (36km); Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (38km); Arboretum du chemin de la découverte (39km); Logis de Forge (42km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Saintes (39km)
Town Of Art And History Angouleme (33km); Saintes (40km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (34km); Saintes (39km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Zoodyssée (35km)
Map of places to visit near Bresdon & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Bresdon
Canton: Matha
Arrondissement: Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Department: Charente-Maritime
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 17490
Distance to Bresdon
from La Rochelle (local prefecture): 83 km
from Paris: 381 km
from Calais: 583 km
from Nice: 634 km
from Bordeaux: 120 km
from Strasbourg: 668 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Bresdon): Anville, Auge-Saint-Medard, Barbezieres, Bazauges, Beauvais-sur-Matha, Cresse, Gourvillette, Louzignac, Massac, Ranville-Breuillaud, Saint-Ouen, Siecq and Verdille.
Getting here
Charente-Maritime is in the west of France. Most visitors will arrive by car typically from a channel ferry ports such as Saint Malo, Caen or Cherbourg, a drive af about 4-5 hours. For driving distances to Bresdon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Bresdon