Chateau de Chenonceau travel guide
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Visit Chateau de Chenonceau: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Chateau de Chenonceau is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 29 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Chateau de Chenonceau is 195 km from Paris and 407 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Chateau de Chenonceau
Popular places to visit near Chateau de Chenonceau: these include Chateau d'Amboise at 11 km and Montresor at 22 km.
Amboise is a listed 'town of art and history' at 12km and Domaine régional de Chaumont-sur-Loire is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 19km. 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 Chateau de Chenonceau, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Chateau de Chenonceau
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 de Chenonceau.
Note that all distances from Chateau de Chenonceau shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Chateau de Chenonceau holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Chateau de Chenonceau (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 de Chenonceau and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Domaine régional de Chaumont-sur-Loire (19km) : Parc et jardins du château de Valmer (20km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (29km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (31km) : Parc du château de Beauregard (33km) : Roseraie des terrasses de l’évêché (35km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (42km) : Jardin du domaine de Sasnières (45km) : Les jardins de la Chatonnière (46km) :
- National Monuments: Fougeres-sur-Bievre Chateau (25km) : Cloisters of la Psalette (29km) : Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (46km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Montresor (22km) : Crissay-sur-Manse (48km) : Lavardin (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (31km) : Veuil (42km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Amboise (12km) : Loches (25km) : Tours (29km) : Blois (35km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Valencay (42km) :
Map of places to visit near Chateau de Chenonceau & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Château de Chenonceau
Canton: na
Arrondissement: na
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: na
Distance to Chateau de Chenonceau
from Tours: 29 km
from Paris: 195 km
from Calais: 407 km
from Nice: 629 km
from Bordeaux: 305 km
from Strasbourg: 517 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 9 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Chateau de Chenonceau): Blere, Chenonceaux, Chissay-en-Touraine, Chisseaux, Civray-de-Touraine, Epeigne-les-Bois, Francueil, La Croix-en-Touraine and Saint-Georges-sur-Cher.
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 de Chenonceau from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Chateau de Chenonceau