Fareins travel guide
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Visit Fareins: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Fareins is situated in the Ain department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the east of France at 42 km from Bourg-en-Bresse, the department capital. (General information: Fareins is 364 km from Paris and 589 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Trevoux at 8 km from Fareins
Popular places to visit near Fareins: these include Trevoux at 8 km and Anse at 9 km.
Parc du château de Laye is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 6km and Trevoux is a listed 'recommended detour' at 8km. 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 Fareins, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Fareins
See France This Way travel guides for Ain and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Fareins.
Note that all distances from Fareins shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Fareins holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Fareins (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 Ain 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 Fareins and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Laye (6km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (9km) : Parc de la Tête d'Or (27km) : Parc de Gerland (29km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (39km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (47km) :
- National Monuments: Brou Royal Monastery (42km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Oingt (15km) : Perouges (35km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Saint Martin d'Ainey (Lyon) (29km) : Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon) (29km) : Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (37km) : Eglise de Saint Blaise (Mazille) (44km) : Eglise de Jalogny (Jalogny) (46km) : Abbaye de Cluny (Cluny) (47km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (48km) : Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (20km) : Ecully (27km) : Vonnas (29km) : Macon (32km) : Chaponnay (45km) : Saint-Vulbas (46km) :
- Heritage Sites: Historic Lyon (29km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (8km) : Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (48km) : Charlieu (48km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (32km) :
Map of places to visit near Fareins & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Fareins
Canton: Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans
Arrondissement: Bourg-en-Bresse
Department: Ain
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 01480
Distance to Fareins
from Bourg-en-Bresse: 42 km
from Paris: 364 km
from Calais: 589 km
from Nice: 324 km
from Bordeaux: 436 km
from Strasbourg: 364 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Fareins): Arnas, Ars-sur-Formans, Beauregard, Chaleins, Frans, Gleize, Jassans-Riottier, Limas, Lurcy, Messimy-sur-Saone, Miserieux, Saint-Georges-de-Reneins, Sainte-Euphemie, Toussieux and Villefranche-sur-Saone.
Getting here
For driving distances to Fareins from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Fareins