Doucelles travel guide
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Visit Doucelles: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Doucelles is situated in the Sarthe department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the north-west of France at 31 km from Le Mans, the department capital. (General information: Doucelles is 174 km from Paris and 323 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Alencon at 20 km from Doucelles
Popular places to visit near Doucelles: these include Alencon at 20 km and Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei at 21 km.
Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 21km and Coulaines is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 26km. 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 Doucelles, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Doucelles
See France This Way travel guides for and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Doucelles.
Note that all distances from Doucelles shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Doucelles holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Doucelles (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 Sarthe 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 Doucelles and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du Mirail (35km) : Jardin du château de Vilaines (36km) : Jardins de la Massonnière (39km) : Sassy (47km) : Jardin d’atmosphère du Petit Bordeaux (49km) : Jardin de la petite Rochelle (49km) :
- National Monuments: Carrouges Chateau (41km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei (21km) :
- Religious monuments: Cathédrale Saint Julien (Le Mans) (28km) : Abbaye de l'Epau (Yvre-l'Eveque) (28km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Coulaines (26km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Le Mans (28km) : Sainte-Suzanne (42km) : Evron (44km) : Jublains (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Nogent-le-Rotrou (49km) :
Map of places to visit near Doucelles & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Doucelles
Canton: Beaumont-sur-Sarthe
Arrondissement: Mamers
Department: Sarthe
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 72170
Distance to Doucelles
from Le Mans: 31 km
from Paris: 174 km
from Calais: 323 km
from Nice: 746 km
from Bordeaux: 384 km
from Strasbourg: 560 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Doucelles): Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, Cherance, Coulombiers, Grandchamp, Juille, Luce-sous-Ballon, Maresche, Meurce, Nouans, Piace, Rene, Saint-Germain-sur-Sarthe and Vivoin.
Getting here
Sarthe is in the north-west of France. Most visitors get here by car having taken a ferry, probably to Saint-Malo or Caen, and then a drive of around 2 - 3 hours. For driving distances to Doucelles from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Doucelles