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Visit Frans: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Frans is situated in the Ain department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the east of France at 43 km from Bourg-en-Bresse, the department capital. (General information: Frans is 367 km from Paris and 592 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Trevoux at 5 km from Frans
Popular places to visit near Frans: these include Trevoux at 5 km and Anse at 7 km.
Trevoux is a listed 'recommended detour' at 5km and Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard is a listed 'remarkable garden' 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 Frans, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Frans
See France This Way travel guides for Ain and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Frans.
Note that all distances from Frans shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Frans holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Frans (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 Frans and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (8km) : Parc du château de Laye (9km) : Parc de la Tête d'Or (24km) : Parc de Gerland (26km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (41km) :
- National Monuments: Brou Royal Monastery (43km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Oingt (15km) : Perouges (33km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon) (26km) : Abbaye Saint Martin d'Ainey (Lyon) (27km) : Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (40km) : Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (45km) : Eglise de Saint Blaise (Mazille) (47km) : Eglise de Jalogny (Jalogny) (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (21km) : Ecully (24km) : Vonnas (31km) : Macon (35km) : Chaponnay (42km) : Saint-Vulbas (44km) :
- Heritage Sites: Historic Lyon (26km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (5km) : Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (46km) : Cremieu (48km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (35km) :
Map of places to visit near Frans & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Frans
Canton: Trévoux
Arrondissement: Bourg-en-Bresse
Department: Ain
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 01480
Distance to Frans
from Bourg-en-Bresse: 43 km
from Paris: 367 km
from Calais: 592 km
from Nice: 322 km
from Bordeaux: 436 km
from Strasbourg: 366 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 18 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Frans): Arnas, Ars-sur-Formans, Beauregard, Chaleins, Fareins, Gleize, Jassans-Riottier, Limas, Miserieux, Pommiers, Reyrieux, Saint-Bernard, Saint-Didier-de-Formans, Sainte-Euphemie, Toussieux, Trevoux, Villefranche-sur-Saone and Villeneuve.
Getting here
For driving distances to Frans from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Frans