Fourchambault travel guide
Visit Fourchambault: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Nevers at 6 km from Fourchambault
Location: Fourchambault is situated in the Nievre department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 6 km from Nevers, the department capital. (General information: Fourchambault is 212 km from Paris and 447 km from the port at Calais).
Market days in Fourchambault: weekly market: Sunday; (markets take place in the morning unless indicated)
Popular places to visit near Fourchambault: these include Nevers at 6 km and Apremont-sur-Allier at 13 km. Nevers is a listed town of art and history at 6 km and Pougues-les-Eaux is a listed village d'etape at 7 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 Fourchambault, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Fourchambault
See France This Way travel guides for Nievre and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Fourchambault.
Note that all distances from Fourchambault shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Fourchambault 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 France and Nievre gites and villas
Markets near Fourchambault
- Fourchambault: market every Sunday (0km)
- Nevers: market every Saturday all day (6km)
- Sancoins: market every Wednesday (24km)
- Baugy: market every Friday (28km)
- La Machine: market every Saturday (32km)
- Lurcy-Levis: market every Monday (33km)
- Decize: market every Friday (35km)
- Saint-Satur: market every Thursday (40km)
- Dun-sur-Auron: market every Saturday (42km)
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 Fourchambault and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Fourchambault map below.
Heritage Site Abbatiale Notre-Dame de La Charité-sur-Loire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (19km)
Most Beautiful Village Apremont-sur-Allier (13km)
Recommended Detour Sancerre (40km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint Germain (Blet) (30km); Eglise de Saint André (Jussy-Champagne) (34km); Prieuré de Saint Révérien (Saint-Reverien) (39km); Eglise de Notre-Dame-du-Pré (Donzy) (39km); Collegiale Saint Etienne (Dun-sur-Auron) (41km)
Remarkable Garden Forgeneuve (8km); Parc floral d'Apremont (12km); Arboretum de Balaine (37km)
Town Of Art And History Nevers (6km)
Village D'etape Pougues-les-Eaux (7km)
Map of places to visit near Fourchambault & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Fourchambault
Canton: Pougues-les-Eaux
Arrondissement: Nevers
Department: Nievre
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 58600
Distance to Fourchambault
from Nevers (local prefecture): 6 km
from Paris: 212 km
from Calais: 447 km
from Nice: 492 km
from Bordeaux: 372 km
from Strasbourg: 390 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Fourchambault): Cours-les-Barres, Garchizy, Marzy, Nevers and Varennes-Vauzelles.
Getting here
Nievre is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car or drive from a channel ferry port, operhaps Calais or Dunkirk at about 5 - 6 hours. For driving distances to Fourchambault from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Fourchambault