La Chapelle-Achard travel guide
Visit La Chapelle-Achard: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Port Bourgenay at 14 km from La Chapelle-Achard
Location: La Chapelle-Achard is situated in the Vendee department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the west of France at 20 km from La Roche-sur-Yon, the department capital. (General information: La Chapelle-Achard is 391 km from Paris and 549 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near La Chapelle-Achard: these include Port Bourgenay at 14 km and Sables d'Olonne at 14 km. Parc zoologique des Sables-d'Olonne is a listed zoo or wildlife park at 14 km and Georges Clemenceau house is a listed national monument at 21 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 Chapelle-Achard, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to La Chapelle-Achard
See France This Way travel guides for Vendee and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of La Chapelle-Achard.
Note that all distances from La Chapelle-Achard shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
La Chapelle-Achard 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 Vendee gites and villas
Markets near La Chapelle-Achard
- La Mothe-Achard: market every Friday (3km)
- Sables d'Olonne: market every every day (14km)
- Brem-sur-Mer: market every Tuesday & Friday (14km)
- Bretignolles-sur-Mer: market every Thursday & Sunday (17km)
- La Roche-sur-Yon: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday & Friday (19km)
- Jard-sur-Mer: market every Monday (20km)
- Saint Gilles Croix de Vie: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday & Sunday & Saturday (25km)
- Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez: market every Tuesday & Thursday & Sunday & Monday & Friday (27km)
- Angles: market every Wednesday & Sunday (28km)
- La Tranche-sur-Mer: market every Wednesday & Saturday (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 Chapelle-Achard and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the La Chapelle-Achard map below.
National Monument Georges Clemenceau house (21km)
Remarkable Garden Jardins de Chaligny (39km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saint-Jean-de-Monts (39km); Notre-Dame-de-Monts (46km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Parc zoologique des Sables-d'Olonne (14km)
Map of places to visit near La Chapelle-Achard & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Chapelle-Achard
Canton: Mothe-Achard
Arrondissement: Sables-d'Olonne
Department: Vendee
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 85150
Distance to La Chapelle-Achard
from La Roche-sur-Yon (local prefecture): 20 km
from Paris: 391 km
from Calais: 549 km
from Nice: 769 km
from Bordeaux: 212 km
from Strasbourg: 738 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of La Chapelle-Achard): Grosbreuil, La Mothe-Achard, Le Girouard, Saint-Julien-Des-Landes, Saint-Mathurin, Sainte-Flaive-Des-Loups and Sainte-Foy.
Getting here
Vendee is in the west of France. Most visitors arrive by car from a cross-channel ferry port - Saint Malo is convenient at around 3 hours drive. For driving distances to La Chapelle-Achard from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez La Chapelle-Achard