Guizengeard travel guide
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Visit Guizengeard: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Guizengeard is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 44 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Guizengeard is 437 km from Paris and 645 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Barbezieux at 20 km from Guizengeard
Popular places to visit near Guizengeard: these include Barbezieux at 20 km and Aubeterre-sur-Dronne at 22 km.
Aubeterre-sur-Dronne is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 22km and Jardin du Chaigne is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 28km. 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 Guizengeard, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Guizengeard
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Guizengeard.
Note that all distances from Guizengeard shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Guizengeard holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Guizengeard (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 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 Guizengeard and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du Chaigne (28km) : Logis de Forge (34km) : Jardin du Fond de l’or (42km) : Jardins du château de Vayres (48km) : Parcs et jardins du château de Beaulon (49km) :
- National Monuments: Cave Pair-non-Pair (42km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (22km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (29km) : Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (34km) : Eglise Notre Dame de Faye (Faye) (35km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps) (36km) : Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (38km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (40km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (41km) : Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (41km) : Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (42km) : Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) (43km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Angouleme (44km) :
- Heritage Sites: Saint-Emilion (45km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Jonzac (30km) :
Map of places to visit near Guizengeard & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Guizengeard
Canton: Brossac
Arrondissement: Cognac
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16480
Distance to Guizengeard
from Angouleme: 44 km
from Paris: 437 km
from Calais: 645 km
from Nice: 611 km
from Bordeaux: 63 km
from Strasbourg: 699 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Guizengeard): Boisbreteau, Boresse-et-Martron, Brossac, Passirac, Saint-Vallier and Sauvignac.
Getting here
Charente is in the west of France. Most visitors to the region come by car with arrive here by car with the ferry ports at Saint Malo taking about 5 hours driving time. For driving distances to Guizengeard from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Guizengeard