Gourvillette travel guide
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Visit Gourvillette: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Gourvillette is situated in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 78 km from La Rochelle, the department capital. (General information: Gourvillette is 382 km from Paris and 583 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Cognac at 23 km from Gourvillette
Popular places to visit near Gourvillette: these include Cognac at 23 km and Tusson at 23 km.
Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) is a listed 'religious monument' at 7km and Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) is a listed 'religious monument' at 8km. 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 Gourvillette, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Gourvillette
See France This Way travel guides for Charente-Maritime and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Gourvillette.
Note that all distances from Gourvillette shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Gourvillette holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Gourvillette (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente-Maritime 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 Gourvillette and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin monastique médiéval (23km) : Arboretum du chemin de la découverte (37km) : Jardin du Chaigne (38km) : Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (42km) : La Roche Courbon (44km) : Logis de Forge (46km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (7km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) (8km) : Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (16km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Varaize) (16km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Aulnay) (18km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (22km) : Abbaye de Fontdouce (Saint-Bris-des-Bois) (23km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Dampierre-sur-Boutonne) (25km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (27km) : Eglise de Saint-Savinien (Fenioux) (29km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saintes (35km) : Angouleme (39km) :
Map of places to visit near Gourvillette & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Gourvillette
Canton: Matha
Arrondissement: Saint-Jean-d'Angély
Department: Charente-Maritime
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 17490
Distance to Gourvillette
from La Rochelle: 78 km
from Paris: 382 km
from Calais: 583 km
from Nice: 639 km
from Bordeaux: 120 km
from Strasbourg: 672 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 10 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Gourvillette): Bazauges, Beauvais-sur-Matha, Bresdon, Cresse, Haimps, Le Gicq, Les Touches-de-Perigny, Massac, Saint-Ouen and Sonnac.
Getting here
Charente-Maritime is in the west of France. Most visitors will arrive by car typically from a channel ferry ports such as Saint Malo, Caen or Cherbourg, a drive af about 4-5 hours. For driving distances to Gourvillette from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Gourvillette