Dourdain travel guide
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Visit Dourdain: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Dourdain is situated in the Ille-et-Vilaine department (Brittany region) in the north-west of France at 25 km from Rennes, the department capital. (General information: Dourdain is 284 km from Paris and 385 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Vitre at 14 km from Dourdain
Popular places to visit near Dourdain: these include Vitre at 14 km and Fougeres at 22 km.
Jardin des fontaines et parc de l’Athanor is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 14km and Vitre is a listed 'town of art and history' at 14km. 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 Dourdain, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Dourdain
See France This Way travel guides for Ille-et-Vilaine and Brittany (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Dourdain.
Note that all distances from Dourdain shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Dourdain holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Dourdain (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 Brittany and Ille-et-Vilaine 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 Dourdain and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin des fontaines et parc de l’Athanor (14km) : Parc floral de Haute-Bretagne (26km) : Jardins de la Pellerine (27km) : Parc du château de Bonnefontaine (31km) : Jardin du château de La Ballue (31km) : Parc et jardin de Clivoy (37km) : Jardins de Broceliande (40km) : Parc du château de Caradeuc (44km) : Jardins du château de la Bourbansais (46km) : Parc et jardins du château de Craon (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cesson-Sevigne (19km) : Fougeres (22km) : Juvigne (25km) : Chartres-de-Bretagne (30km) : Le Rheu (33km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Vitre (14km) : Rennes (25km) : Laval (47km) :
Map of places to visit near Dourdain & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Dourdain
Canton: Liffré
Arrondissement: Rennes
Department: Ille-et-Vilaine
Region: Brittany
Postcode: 35450
Distance to Dourdain
from Rennes: 25 km
from Paris: 284 km
from Calais: 385 km
from Nice: 833 km
from Bordeaux: 378 km
from Strasbourg: 674 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Dourdain): Champeaux, La Bouexiere, Landavran, Livre-sur-Changeon, Marpire, Mece and Val-d'Ize.
Getting here
Ille-et-Vilaine is in the north-west of France. Most visitors Most UK visitors arrive by car with the cross-channel ferry port at Saint Malo keeping driving time to a minimum. For driving distances to Dourdain from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Dourdain