Chatelais travel guide
Visit Chatelais: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Chateau Plessis-Bourre at 33 km from Chatelais
Location: Chatelais is situated in the Maine-et-Loire department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the western-centre of France at 42 km from Angers, the department capital. (General information: Chatelais is 271 km from Paris and 408 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Chatelais: these include Chateau Plessis-Bourre at 33 km and Laval at 37 km. Parc et jardins du château de Craon is a listed remarkable garden at 11 km and Chateau-Gontier is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 18 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 Chatelais, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Chatelais
See France This Way travel guides for Maine-et-Loire and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Chatelais.
Note that all distances from Chatelais shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Chatelais 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 France and Maine-et-Loire gites and villas
Markets near Chatelais
- Segre: market every Wednesday & Saturday (8km)
- Craon: market every Monday (10km)
- Renaze: market every Friday (11km)
- Chateau-Gontier: market every Thursday & (18km)
- Pouance: market every Thursday (19km)
- Le Lion-d'Angers: market every Friday (21km)
- Cande: market every Monday (23km)
- La Guerche-de-Bretagne: market every Tuesday (31km)
- Chateauneuf-sur-Sarthe: market every Friday (34km)
- Meslay-du-Maine: market every Friday (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 Chatelais and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Chatelais map below.
National Monument Chateau d'Angers (42km)
Recommended Detour Chateau-Gontier (18km)
Remarkable Garden Parc et jardins du château de Craon (11km); Jardins du Pin (38km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Chateau-Gontier (18km)
Town Of Art And History Laval (37km); Angers (42km); Saulges (46km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Chateau-Gontier (18km); Chenille-Change (20km); Coudray (21km); La Cropte (39km); Angers (43km)
Map of places to visit near Chatelais & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Châtelais
Canton: Segré
Arrondissement: Segré
Department: Maine-et-Loire
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 49520
Distance to Chatelais
from Angers (local prefecture): 42 km
from Paris: 271 km
from Calais: 408 km
from Nice: 779 km
from Bordeaux: 326 km
from Strasbourg: 649 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Chatelais): Bouille-Menard, Cherance, La Boissiere, La Ferriere-de-Flee, Mee, Noyant-la-Gravoyere, Nyoiseau and Saint-Quentin-les-Anges.
Getting here
Maine-et-Loire is in the western-centre of France. Most visitors arrive in a car from one of the ferry terminals - Saint Malo and Caen are most practical, allow around 3-4 hours for the journey. For driving distances to Chatelais from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Chatelais