Chateau d'Amboise travel guide
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Visit Chateau d'Amboise: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Chateau d'Amboise is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 22 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Chateau d'Amboise is 190 km from Paris and 399 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Chateau d'Amboise
Popular places to visit near Chateau d'Amboise: these include Chateau de Chenonceau at 11 km and Tours at 22 km.
Amboise is a listed 'town of art and history' at 1km and Parc et jardins du château de Valmer is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 9km. 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 Chateau d'Amboise, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Chateau d'Amboise
See France This Way travel guides for Indre-et-Loire and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Chateau d'Amboise.
Note that all distances from Chateau d'Amboise shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Chateau d'Amboise holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Chateau d'Amboise (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 Indre-et-Loire 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 Chateau d'Amboise and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc et jardins du château de Valmer (9km) : Parc et jardins du château de Chenonceau (12km) : Domaine régional de Chaumont-sur-Loire (17km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (22km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (24km) : Roseraie des terrasses de l’évêché (33km) : Parc du château de Beauregard (33km) : Jardin du domaine de Sasnières (35km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (36km) : Les jardins de la Chatonnière (42km) :
- National Monuments: Cloisters of la Psalette (22km) : Fougeres-sur-Bievre Chateau (28km) : Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (42km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Montresor (33km) : Lavardin (38km) : Crissay-sur-Manse (47km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (24km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Amboise (1km) : Tours (22km) : Loches (33km) : Blois (33km) : Vendome (44km) :
Map of places to visit near Chateau d'Amboise & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Château d'Amboise
Canton: na
Arrondissement: na
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: na
Distance to Chateau d'Amboise
from Tours: 22 km
from Paris: 190 km
from Calais: 399 km
from Nice: 640 km
from Bordeaux: 310 km
from Strasbourg: 520 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 Chateau d'Amboise): Amboise, Charge, Limeray, Lussault-sur-Loire, Nazelles-Negron, Poce-sur-Cisse and Saint-Regle.
Getting here
Indre-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to Chateau d'Amboise from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Chateau d'Amboise