Essey travel guide
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Visit Essey: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Essey is situated in the Cote d'Or department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 41 km from Dijon, the department capital. (General information: Essey is 245 km from Paris and 460 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Chateauneuf-en-Auxois at 9 km from Essey
Popular places to visit near Essey: these include Chateauneuf-en-Auxois at 9 km and Morvan Regional Park at 24 km.
Chateauneuf-en-Auxois is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 9km and Abbaye de la Bussière is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 15km. 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 Essey, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Essey
See France This Way travel guides for Cote d'Or and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Essey.
Note that all distances from Essey shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Essey holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Essey (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 Cote d'Or 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 Essey and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Abbaye de la Bussière (15km) : Parc et jardin du château de Barbirey sur Ouche (18km) : Parc et jardins du château de Sully (22km) : Jardin de la Chaux (26km) : Parc de Saint-Léger (30km) : Potager du château de Lantilly (39km) : Jardin du moulin de Athie (45km) :
- National Monuments: Bussy-Rabutin Chateau (40km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Chateauneuf-en-Auxois (9km) : Flavigny (34km) :
- Religious monuments: Basilique de Saint Andoche (Saulieu) (24km) : Hospices de Beaune (Beaune) (31km) : Cathédrale Saint Lazare (Autun) (33km) : Abbaye de Fontenay (Montbard) (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Beaune (31km) : Dijon (41km) : Quetigny (46km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Autun (33km) :
- Grand Site of France: Alesia (37km) : Bibracte-Mont Beuvray (48km) :
Map of places to visit near Essey & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Essey
Canton: Pouilly-en-Auxois
Arrondissement: Beaune
Department: Cote d'Or
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 21320
Distance to Essey
from Dijon: 41 km
from Paris: 245 km
from Calais: 460 km
from Nice: 444 km
from Bordeaux: 474 km
from Strasbourg: 285 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Essey): Arconcey, Chatellenot, Chazilly, Clomot, Creancey, Cussy-le-Chatel, Jouey, Le Fete, Longecourt-les-Culetre, Maconge, Meilly-sur-Rouvres, Musigny, Rouvres-sous-Meilly and Thoisy-le-Desert.
Getting here
Cote d'Or is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors drive from one of the channel ports such as Calais or Dunkirk, a drive of about 6 hours, or fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car. For driving distances to Essey from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Essey