Excideuil travel guide
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Visit Excideuil: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Excideuil is situated in the Dordogne department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France at 31 km from Perigueux, the department capital. (General information: Excideuil is 404 km from Paris and 627 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Excideuil (page also includes a photo gallery for Excideuil)
Popular places to visit near Excideuil: these include Chateau de Hautefort at 11 km and Thiviers at 14 km.
Jardins du château de Hautefort is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 11km and Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption (Thiviers) is a listed 'religious monument' at 13km. 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 Excideuil, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Excideuil
See France This Way travel guides for Dordogne and Aquitaine (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Excideuil.
Note that all distances from Excideuil shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Excideuil holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Excideuil (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 Aquitaine and Dordogne 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 Excideuil and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Hautefort (11km) : Jardins de l'Imaginaire (31km) : Jardins du château de Losse (35km) : Jardins du Manoir d'Eyrignac (45km) : Jardin de Liliane (49km) :
- National Monuments: Chateau de Puyguilhem (25km) : Abri de Cap Blanc (45km) : Font-de-Gaume (45km) : Decorated caves of the Vezere Valley (45km) : Abri of Laugerie-Haute (45km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Saint-Jean-de-Cole (19km) : Segur-le-Chateau (23km) : Saint-Amand-de-Coly (34km) : Saint-Leon-sur-Vezere (36km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption (Thiviers) (13km) : Abbaye Cistercienne de Boschaud (Villars) (25km) : Eglise Saint Etienne de la Cité (Perigueux) (31km) : Cathédrale Saint Front (Perigueux) (31km) : Abbaye Saint Pierre (Brantome) (32km) : Abbaye Notre Dame (Chancelade) (33km) : Ancien Prieuré de Merlande (La Chapelle-Gonaguet) (34km) : Abbaye de Saint Amand de Coly (Saint-Amand-de-Coly) (34km) : Eglise de Saint Léonce (Saint-Leon-sur-Vezere) (36km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Perigueux (31km) : Saint-Hilaire-les-Places (35km) :
- Heritage Sites: Vezere Valley (33km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (23km) : Nontron (37km) :
Map of places to visit near Excideuil & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Excideuil
Canton: Excideuil
Arrondissement: Périgueux
Department: Dordogne
Region: Aquitaine
Postcode: 24160
Distance to Excideuil
from Perigueux: 31 km
from Paris: 404 km
from Calais: 627 km
from Nice: 525 km
from Bordeaux: 139 km
from Strasbourg: 623 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 9 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Excideuil): Anlhiac, Cherveix-Cubas, Clermont-d'Excideuil, Coulaures, Preyssac-d'Excideuil, Saint-Germain-Des-Pres, Saint-Martial-d'Albarede, Saint-Pantaly-d'Excideuil and Saint-Sulpice-d'Excideuil.
Getting here
Dordogne is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into the airports at either Bergerac (or Bordeaux). Alternatively to drive from the cross-channel ports takes around 9-11 hours. For driving distances to Excideuil from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Excideuil