Champagne travel guide
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Visit Champagne: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Champagne is situated in the Sarthe department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the north-west of France at 11 km from Le Mans, the department capital. (General information: Champagne is 175 km from Paris and 343 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Le Mans at 10 km from Champagne
Popular places to visit near Champagne: these include Le Mans at 10 km and Belleme at 43 km.
Abbaye de l'Epau (Yvre-l'Eveque) is a listed 'religious monument' at 5km and Le Mans is a listed 'town of art and history' at 10km. 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 Champagne, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Champagne
See France This Way travel guides for and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Champagne.
Note that all distances from Champagne shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Champagne holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Champagne (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 Sarthe 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 Champagne and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du château de Vilaines (23km) : Jardin d’atmosphère du Petit Bordeaux (24km) : Jardins du Mirail (29km) : Jardins de la Massonnière (35km) : Jardins du château de Poncé (38km) : Parc et jardins du château du Lude (44km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei (49km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de l'Epau (Yvre-l'Eveque) (5km) : Cathédrale Saint Julien (Le Mans) (10km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Coulaines (10km) : Cogners (30km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Le Mans (10km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: La Fleche (47km) : Nogent-le-Rotrou (49km) :
Map of places to visit near Champagne & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Champagné
Canton: Montfort-le-Gesnois
Arrondissement: Mans
Department: Sarthe
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 72470
Distance to Champagne
from Le Mans: 11 km
from Paris: 175 km
from Calais: 343 km
from Nice: 720 km
from Bordeaux: 361 km
from Strasbourg: 552 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Champagne): Change, Fatines, Montfort-le-Gesnois, Saint-Corneille, Saint-Mars-la-Briere, Savigne-l'Eveque and Yvre-l'Eveque.
Getting here
Sarthe is in the north-west of France. Most visitors get here by car having taken a ferry, probably to Saint-Malo or Caen, and then a drive of around 2 - 3 hours. For driving distances to Champagne from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Champagne