Courcoury travel guide
Visit Courcoury: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Saintes at 6 km from Courcoury
Location: Courcoury is situated in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 67 km from La Rochelle, the department capital. (General information: Courcoury is 413 km from Paris and 609 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Courcoury: these include Saintes at 6 km and Pons at 15 km. Saintes is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 5 km and Saintes is a listed secteur sauvegarde at 5 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 Courcoury, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Courcoury
See France This Way travel guides for Charente-Maritime and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Courcoury.
Note that all distances from Courcoury shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Courcoury 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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente-Maritime gites and villas
Markets near Courcoury
- Pons: market every Wednesday and Saturday (15km)
- Cognac: market every Tuesday & Friday (20km)
- Cozes: market every Wednesday (24km)
- Matha: market every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday (27km)
- Saujon: market every every day except Monday and Friday (27km)
- Jonzac: market every Tuesday & Saturday (32km)
- Jarnac: market every every day except Monday (32km)
- Meschers-sur-Gironde: market every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - seasonal market only - (34km)
- Saint Georges de Didonne: market every all days exc. Thursday - seasonal market only - (34km)
- Saint Georges de Didonne: market every Sunday and Monday (34km)
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 Courcoury and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Courcoury map below.
Grand Site Of France Brouage Fortifications (41km)
Heritage Site Saintes basilique St Eutrope (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (6km); Pons ancien hopital des pèlerins (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (16km); Saint-Jean-d'Angély, abbaye royale (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (26km); Aulnay église St Pierre (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (39km)
Most Beautiful Village Talmont (32km); Mornac-sur-Seudre (35km)
Recommended Detour Jonzac (32km)
Religious Monument Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes (Saintes) (5km); Abbaye de Fontdouce (Saint-Bris-des-Bois) (11km); Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) (18km); Eglise de Saint-Savinien (Fenioux) (20km); Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (25km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (26km); Eglise de Saint Germain (Varaize) (26km); Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) (26km); Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (28km); Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (41km); Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Dampierre-sur-Boutonne) (41km)
Remarkable Garden La Roche Courbon (20km); Parcs et jardins du château de Beaulon (33km); Jardin du Chaigne (37km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Saintes (5km)
Town Of Art And History Saintes (6km); Royan (37km); Rochefort (39km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saintes (5km); Royan (36km)
Map of places to visit near Courcoury & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Courcoury
Canton: Saintes-Est
Arrondissement: Saintes
Department: Charente-Maritime
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 17100
Distance to Courcoury
from La Rochelle (local prefecture): 67 km
from Paris: 413 km
from Calais: 609 km
from Nice: 659 km
from Bordeaux: 97 km
from Strasbourg: 706 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Courcoury): Chaniers, La Chapelle-Des-Pots, Les Gonds, Preguillac, Saint-Cesaire, Saint-Sauvant, Saint-Sever-de-Saintonge and Saintes.
Getting here
Charente-Maritime is in the west of France. Most visitors will arrive by car typically from a channel ferry ports such as Saint Malo, Caen or Cherbourg, a drive af about 4-5 hours. For driving distances to Courcoury from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Courcoury