Cercoux travel guide
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Visit Cercoux: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Cercoux is situated in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 136 km from La Rochelle, the department capital. (General information: Cercoux is 457 km from Paris and 665 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Libourne at 24 km from Cercoux
Popular places to visit near Cercoux: these include Libourne at 24 km and Saint-Emilion at 26 km.
Eglise de Saint Pierre (Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps) is a listed 'religious monument' at 20km and Jardin du Fond de l’or is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 22km. 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 Cercoux, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Cercoux
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 Cercoux.
Note that all distances from Cercoux shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Cercoux holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Cercoux (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 Cercoux and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du Fond de l’or (22km) : Jardins du château de Vayres (27km) : Jardins du Sardy (39km) : Parc du château Lanessan (41km) : Jardin du Chaigne (47km) :
- National Monuments: Cave Pair-non-Pair (25km) : Montcaret Archaeological site (37km) : Sauve-Majeure Abbey (41km) : Pey-Berland Tower (44km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (34km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Pierre (Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps) (20km) : Collégiale et chapelle de la Trinité (Saint-Emilion) (27km) : Abbaye de la Sauve Majeure (La Sauve) (41km) : Eglise Notre Dame de Faye (Faye) (45km) :
- Heritage Sites: Saint-Emilion (26km) : Bordeaux Port (44km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Bordeaux (44km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Jonzac (39km) :
Map of places to visit near Cercoux & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Cercoux
Canton: Montguyon
Arrondissement: Jonzac
Department: Charente-Maritime
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 17270
Distance to Cercoux
from La Rochelle: 136 km
from Paris: 457 km
from Calais: 665 km
from Nice: 614 km
from Bordeaux: 44 km
from Strasbourg: 716 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Cercoux): Clerac, La Clotte and Saint-Pierre-du-Palais.
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 Cercoux from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Cercoux