Briant travel guide
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Visit Briant: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Briant is situated in the Saone-et-Loire department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 52 km from Macon, the department capital. (General information: Briant is 315 km from Paris and 544 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Semur-en-Brionnais at 6 km from Briant
Popular places to visit near Briant: these include Semur-en-Brionnais at 6 km and Anzy-le-Duc at 7 km.
Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 4km and Jardin du château de Chaumont is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 4km. 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 Briant, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Briant
See France This Way travel guides for Saone-et-Loire and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Briant.
Note that all distances from Briant shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Briant holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Briant (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 Saone-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 Briant and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (4km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (4km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (13km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (18km) : Jardin du château de Digoine (28km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Semur-en-Brionnais (6km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (4km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (6km) : Prieuré d'Anzy-le-Duc (Anzy-le-Duc) (7km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (10km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) (10km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (12km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (16km) : Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (16km) : Basilique du Sacré-Cœur (Paray-le-Monial) (17km) : Eglise de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Neuilly-en-Donjon) (21km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Paray-le-Monial (17km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (16km) : Lapalisse (40km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (44km) :
Map of places to visit near Briant & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Briant
Canton: Semur-en-Brionnais
Arrondissement: Charolles
Department: Saone-et-Loire
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 71110
Distance to Briant
from Macon: 52 km
from Paris: 315 km
from Calais: 544 km
from Nice: 379 km
from Bordeaux: 402 km
from Strasbourg: 371 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Briant): Oye, Saint-Didier-en-Brionnais, Sainte-Foy, Sarry, Semur-en-Brionnais, Varenne-l'Arconce and Vauban.
Getting here
Saone-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car or drive from a channel ferry port - allow about 6 - 7 hours. For driving distances to Briant from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Briant