Champs travel guide
Visit Champs: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Mortagne-au-Perche at 7 km from Champs
Location: Champs is situated in the Orne department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 38 km from Alencon, the department capital. (General information: Champs is 135 km from Paris and 279 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Champs: these include Mortagne-au-Perche at 7 km and Belleme at 23 km. Jardin de la petite Rochelle is a listed remarkable garden at 24 km and Perche is a listed regional natural parc at 27 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 Champs, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Champs
See France This Way travel guides for Orne and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Champs.
Note that all distances from Champs shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Champs 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 Normandy and Orne gites and villas
Markets near Champs
- Tourouvre: market every Friday (7km)
- Mortagne-Au-Perche: market every Saturday all day (7km)
- Longny-Au-Perche: market every Wednesday (15km)
- Le Mele-sur-Sarthe: market every Wednesday (17km)
- Vitrai-sous-Laigle: market every Tuesday (19km)
- Remalard: market every Monday (24km)
- Sees: market every Saturday (28km)
- Mamers: market every Monday (29km)
- Verneuil-sur-Avre: market every Saturday (32km)
- Nogent-le-Rotrou: market every Saturday all day (35km)
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 Champs and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Champs map below.
Recommended Detour Nogent-le-Rotrou (35km)
Regional Natural Parc Perche (27km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin de la petite Rochelle (24km)
Map of places to visit near Champs & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Champs
Canton: Tourouvre
Arrondissement: Mortagne-au-Perche
Department: Orne
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 61190
Distance to Champs
from Alencon (local prefecture): 38 km
from Paris: 135 km
from Calais: 279 km
from Nice: 749 km
from Bordeaux: 425 km
from Strasbourg: 529 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Champs): Bivilliers, Bresolettes, Bubertre, Feings, Lignerolles, Prepotin, Saint-Aquilin-de-Corbion, Saint-Hilaire-le-Chatel, Saint-Martin-Des-Pezerits, Saint-Ouen-de-Secherouvre, Sainte-Ceronne-les-Mortagne, Soligny-la-Trappe and Villiers-sous-Mortagne.
Getting here
Orne is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-challen ferry ports with Caen being especially close, typically within an hours drive. For driving distances to Champs from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Champs