Brives-sur-Charente travel guide
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Visit Brives-sur-Charente: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Brives-sur-Charente is situated in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 76 km from La Rochelle, the department capital. (General information: Brives-sur-Charente is 413 km from Paris and 611 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Cognac at 11 km from Brives-sur-Charente
Popular places to visit near Brives-sur-Charente: these include Cognac at 11 km and Saintes at 16 km.
Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) is a listed 'religious monument' at 8km and Abbaye de Fontdouce (Saint-Bris-des-Bois) is a listed 'religious monument' at 11km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Brives-sur-Charente, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Brives-sur-Charente
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 Brives-sur-Charente.
Note that all distances from Brives-sur-Charente shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Brives-sur-Charente holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Brives-sur-Charente (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente-Maritime 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 Brives-sur-Charente and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du Chaigne (27km) : La Roche Courbon (30km) : Parcs et jardins du château de Beaulon (33km) : Logis de Forge (47km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Talmont (38km) : Mornac-sur-Seudre (44km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) (8km) : Abbaye de Fontdouce (Saint-Bris-des-Bois) (11km) : Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes (Saintes) (15km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (16km) : Upper Church et lower Church de Saint Eutrope (Saintes) (16km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (16km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) (24km) : Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (27km) : Eglise de Saint-Savinien (Fenioux) (27km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Varaize) (28km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saintes (15km) : Royan (44km) : Angouleme (47km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Rochefort (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Jonzac (25km) :
Map of places to visit near Brives-sur-Charente & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Brives-sur-Charente
Canton: Pons
Arrondissement: Saintes
Department: Charente-Maritime
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 17800
Distance to Brives-sur-Charente
from La Rochelle: 76 km
from Paris: 413 km
from Calais: 611 km
from Nice: 649 km
from Bordeaux: 93 km
from Strasbourg: 700 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 11 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Brives-sur-Charente): Ars, Cherac, Dompierre-sur-Charente, Louzac-Saint-Andre, Montils, Perignac, Rouffiac, Saint-Laurent-de-Cognac, Saint-Seurin-de-Palenne, Saint-Sever-de-Saintonge and Salignac-sur-Charente.
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 Brives-sur-Charente from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Brives-sur-Charente