Ecoche travel guide
Visit Ecoche: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Semur-en-Brionnais at 20 km from Ecoche
Location: Ecoche is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 81 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: Ecoche is 333 km from Paris and 562 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Ecoche: these include Semur-en-Brionnais at 20 km and Anzy-le-Duc at 25 km. Le jardin de Zéphyr is a listed remarkable garden at 9 km and Charlieu is a listed recommended detour at 10 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 Ecoche, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Ecoche
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Ecoche.
Note that all distances from Ecoche shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Ecoche 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 Rhone-Alpes and Loire gites and villas
Markets near Ecoche
- Chauffailles: market every Friday (6km)
- Cours-la-Ville: market every Wednesday & Saturday & Monday (7km)
- Charlieu: market every Wednesday & Saturday (10km)
- La Clayette: market every Tuesday (14km)
- Roanne: market every Sunday & Friday (22km)
- Amplepuis: market every Tuesday (22km)
- Le Coteau: market every Wednesday (22km)
- Beaujeu: market every Wednesday (22km)
- Marcigny: market every Monday (23km)
- Charolles: market every Wednesday (30km)
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 Ecoche and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Ecoche map below.
Grand Site Of France Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (36km)
Most Beautiful Village Semur-en-Brionnais (20km); Oingt (32km)
Recommended Detour Charlieu (10km); Trevoux (44km)
Religious Monument Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (10km); Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (14km); Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (18km); Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (20km); Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (21km); Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (22km); Prieuré d'Anzy-le-Duc (Anzy-le-Duc) (25km); Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) (29km); Basilique du Sacré-Cœur (Paray-le-Monial) (35km); Eglise de Saint Blaise (Mazille) (35km); Eglise de Saint Nizier (Baron) (37km); Eglise de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Neuilly-en-Donjon) (38km); Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (38km); Eglise de Jalogny (Jalogny) (38km); Abbaye de Cluny (Cluny) (41km); Eglise de Saint Denis (Massy) (43km)
Remarkable Garden Le jardin de Zéphyr (9km); Les Jardins du château de Drée (16km); Jardin du château de Chaumont (20km); Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (22km); Parc du château de Laye (34km); Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (38km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Cluny (41km)
Town Of Art And History Paray-le-Monial (35km)
Village D'etape Charolles (30km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Paray-le-Monial (35km)
Map of places to visit near Ecoche & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Écoche
Canton: Belmont-de-la-Loire
Arrondissement: Roanne
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42670
Distance to Ecoche
from Saint-Etienne (local prefecture): 81 km
from Paris: 333 km
from Calais: 562 km
from Nice: 360 km
from Bordeaux: 407 km
from Strasbourg: 374 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Ecoche): Arcinges, Belmont-de-la-Loire, Chateauneuf, Chauffailles, Coublanc, Cuinzier, Jarnosse, Le Cergne, Maizilly, Mars, Saint-Igny-de-Roche, Saint-Martin-de-Lixy, Tancon and Thel.
Getting here
For driving distances to Ecoche from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Ecoche