Buffon travel guide
Visit Buffon: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Buffon is situated in the Cote d'Or department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 68 km from Dijon, the department capital. (General information: Buffon is 196 km from Paris and 407 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Buffon: these include Montbard at 5 km and Fontenay Abbey at 8 km. Abbaye de Fontenay (Montbard) is a listed religious monument at 5 km and Abbaye de Fontenay is a listed remarkable garden at 9 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 Buffon, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Buffon
See France This Way travel guides for Cote d'Or and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Buffon.
Note that all distances from Buffon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Buffon 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 France and Cote d'Or gites and villas
Markets near Buffon
- Montbard: market every Friday (5km)
- Ancy-le-Franc: market every Thursday (17km)
- Venarey-les-Laumes: market every Wednesday (18km)
- Tonnerre: market every Saturday (32km)
- Avallon: market every Saturday (32km)
- Chatillon-sur-Seine: market every Saturday (32km)
- Les Riceys: market every Thursday (38km)
- Chablis: market every Sunday (40km)
- Mussy-sur-Seine: market every Thursday (40km)
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 Buffon and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Buffon map below.
Grand Site Of France Alesia (20km)
Heritage Site Fontenay Abbey (9km); Asquins église St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (43km); Vézelay basilica St Madeleine (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (44km); Vezelay (44km)
Most Beautiful Village Noyers-sur-Serein (22km); Flavigny (25km)
National Monument Bussy-Rabutin Chateau (21km)
Recommended Detour Chatillon-sur-Seine (33km)
Religious Monument Abbaye de Fontenay (Montbard) (5km)
Remarkable Garden Abbaye de Fontenay (9km); Jardin du moulin de Athie (9km); Potager du château de Lantilly (14km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Vezelay (45km)
Map of places to visit near Buffon & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Buffon
Canton: Montbard
Arrondissement: Montbard
Department: Cote d'Or
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 21500
Distance to Buffon
from Dijon (local prefecture): 68 km
from Paris: 196 km
from Calais: 407 km
from Nice: 497 km
from Bordeaux: 487 km
from Strasbourg: 278 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 10 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Buffon): Aisy-sur-Armancon, Arrans, Crepand, Montbard, Perrigny-sur-Armancon, Quincerot, Quincy-le-Vicomte, Rougemont, Saint-Germain-les-Senailly and Saint-Remy.
Getting here
Cote d'Or is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors drive from one of the channel ports such as Calais or Dunkirk, a drive of about 6 hours, or fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car. For driving distances to Buffon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Buffon