Chenas travel guide
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Visit Chenas: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Chenas is situated in the Rhone department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 50 km from Lyon, the department capital. (General information: Chenas is 344 km from Paris and 567 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Solutre-Pouilly at 9 km from Chenas
Popular places to visit near Chenas: these include Solutre-Pouilly at 9 km and Belleville at 12 km.
Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson is a listed 'grand site of france' at 10km and Macon is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 13km. 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 Chenas, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Chenas
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Chenas.
Note that all distances from Chenas shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Chenas holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Chenas (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 Rhone-Alpes and Rhone 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 Chenas and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Laye (17km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (28km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (30km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (33km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (42km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (45km) : Parc de la Tête d'Or (49km) :
- National Monuments: Brou Royal Monastery (39km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Oingt (31km) : Semur-en-Brionnais (49km) : Perouges (49km) :
- Religious monuments: Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (15km) : Eglise de Saint Blaise (Mazille) (22km) : Eglise de Jalogny (Jalogny) (24km) : Abbaye de Cluny (Cluny) (25km) : Eglise de Saint Denis (Massy) (32km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre de Brancion (Martailly-les-Brancion) (38km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (38km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Chapaize) (38km) : Abbatiale eglise de Saint Philibert (Tournus) (42km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (43km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Macon (13km) : Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (21km) : Vonnas (21km) : Ecully (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (30km) : Charlieu (43km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (10km) :
Map of places to visit near Chenas & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Chénas
Canton: Beaujeu
Arrondissement: Villefranche-sur-Saône
Department: Rhone
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 69840
Distance to Chenas
from Lyon: 50 km
from Paris: 344 km
from Calais: 567 km
from Nice: 344 km
from Bordeaux: 440 km
from Strasbourg: 349 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 17 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Chenas): Chaintre, Chanes, Chiroubles, Creches-sur-Saone, Emeringes, Fleurie, Julienas, Jullie, La Chapelle-de-Guinchay, Lancie, Pruzilly, Romaneche-Thorins, Saint-Amour-Bellevue, Saint-Symphorien-d'Ancelles, Saint-Verand, Vauxrenard and Villie-Morgon.
Getting here
For driving distances to Chenas from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Chenas