Chateau du Rivau travel guide
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Visit Chateau du Rivau: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Chateau du Rivau is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 42 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Chateau du Rivau is 247 km from Paris and 442 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Chateau du Rivau
Popular places to visit near Chateau du Rivau: these include Chateau Chinon at 9 km and Chinon at 12 km.
Les jardins du château du Rivau is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 2km and Chinon is a listed 'town of art and history' at 12km. 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 du Rivau, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Chateau du Rivau
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 du Rivau.
Note that all distances from Chateau du Rivau shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Chateau du Rivau holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Chateau du Rivau (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 du Rivau and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins du château du Rivau (2km) : Les jardins de la Chatonnière (21km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (30km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (41km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (43km) : Parc de Lathan (43km) :
- National Monuments: Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (21km) : Fontevraud Abbey (22km) : Oiron Chateau (35km) : Cloisters of la Psalette (43km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Crissay-sur-Manse (14km) : Candes-Saint-Martin (22km) : Montsoreau (24km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (22km) : Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (22km) : Eglise Abbatial de Saint Jouin (Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes) (37km) : Eglise de Saint Généroux (Saint-Generoux) (42km) : Eglise abbatiale de Saint Pierre (Airvault) (46km) : Prieuré de Notre-Dame de Cunault (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (49km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (42km) : Thouars (43km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Chinon (12km) : Tours (43km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Loudun (21km) : Montreuil-Bellay (36km) :
Map of places to visit near Chateau du Rivau & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Château du Rivau
Canton: na
Arrondissement: na
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: na
Distance to Chateau du Rivau
from Tours: 42 km
from Paris: 247 km
from Calais: 442 km
from Nice: 661 km
from Bordeaux: 261 km
from Strasbourg: 578 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 du Rivau): Anche, Assay, Champigny-sur-Veude, Lemere, Ligre, Panzoult, Riviere, Sazilly and Tavant.
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 du Rivau from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Chateau du Rivau