La Chambonie travel guide
Visit La Chambonie: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Olliergues at 12 km from La Chambonie
Location: La Chambonie is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 61 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: La Chambonie is 361 km from Paris and 595 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near La Chambonie: these include Olliergues at 12 km and Livradois-Forez Regional Park at 13 km. Aulteribe Chateau is a listed national monument at 20 km and Thiers is a listed secteur sauvegarde at 20 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 La Chambonie, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to La Chambonie
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of La Chambonie.
Note that all distances from La Chambonie shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
La Chambonie 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 Rhone-Alpes and Loire gites and villas
Markets near La Chambonie
- Noiretable: market every Saturday (8km)
- Courpiere: market every Tuesday (16km)
- Saint-Remy-sur-Durolle: market every Sunday (20km)
- Boen: market every Thursday (20km)
- Thiers: market every Thursday & Saturday (20km)
- Ambert: market every Thursday (22km)
- Montbrison: market every Saturday (29km)
- Lezoux: market every Saturday (30km)
- Billom: market every Monday (32km)
- Puy-Guillaume: market every Wednesday (32km)
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 La Chambonie and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the La Chambonie map below.
Most Beautiful Village Usson (40km)
National Monument Aulteribe Chateau (20km)
Recommended Detour Ambert (22km); Issoire (45km)
Regional Natural Parc Livradois-Forez (24km)
Religious Monument Collégiale Saint-Victor et Sainte-Couronne d'Ennezat (Ennezat) (44km); Eglise de Saint Austremoine d'Issoire (Issoire) (45km); Eglise de Notre Dame de Mailhat (Lamontgie) (46km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin de l’écomusée (42km); Parc du domaine royal de Randan (43km); Jardins du château d'Hauterive (45km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Thiers (20km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Col des Pradeaux (26km)
Town Of Art And History Issoire (45km)
Map of places to visit near La Chambonie & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Chambonie
Canton: Noirétable
Arrondissement: Montbrison
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42440
Distance to La Chambonie
from Saint-Etienne (local prefecture): 61 km
from Paris: 361 km
from Calais: 595 km
from Nice: 359 km
from Bordeaux: 353 km
from Strasbourg: 437 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of La Chambonie): La Chamba, La Cote-en-Couzan, La Renaudie, Le Brugeron, Saint-Jean-la-Vetre and Vollore-Montagne.
Getting here
For driving distances to La Chambonie from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez La Chambonie