Echalas travel guide
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Visit Echalas: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Echalas is situated in the Rhone department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 26 km from Lyon, the department capital. (General information: Echalas is 409 km from Paris and 636 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Vienne at 13 km from Echalas
Popular places to visit near Echalas: these include Vienne at 13 km and Pelussin at 15 km.
Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) is a listed 'religious monument' at 10km and Vienne is a listed 'town of art and history' 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 Echalas, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Echalas
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Echalas.
Note that all distances from Echalas shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Echalas holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Echalas (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 Echalas and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc de Gerland (25km) : Parc de la Tête d'Or (28km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (44km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Oingt (45km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (10km) : Abbaye Saint Martin d'Ainey (Lyon) (24km) : Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon) (25km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Chaponnay (19km) : Ecully (25km) : Saint-Galmier (31km) :
- Heritage Sites: Historic Lyon (25km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Vienne (13km) : Saint-Etienne (27km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (22km) : Trevoux (44km) : Cremieu (46km) :
Map of places to visit near Echalas & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Échalas
Canton: Givors
Arrondissement: Lyon
Department: Rhone
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 69700
Distance to Echalas
from Lyon: 26 km
from Paris: 409 km
from Calais: 636 km
from Nice: 288 km
from Bordeaux: 422 km
from Strasbourg: 408 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 10 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Echalas): Chateauneuf, Dargoire, Givors, Les Haies, Longes, Saint-Andeol-le-Chateau, Saint-Jean-de-Touslas, Saint-Romain-en-Gier, Tartaras and Treves.
Getting here
For driving distances to Echalas from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Echalas