La Garnache travel guide
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Visit La Garnache: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: La Garnache is situated in the Vendee department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the west of France at 39 km from La Roche-sur-Yon, the department capital. (General information: La Garnache is 381 km from Paris and 525 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint Gilles Croix de Vie at 23 km from La Garnache
Popular places to visit near La Garnache: these include Saint Gilles Croix de Vie at 23 km and Pornic at 32 km.
Marais de Machecoul is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 11km and Saint-Jean-de-Monts is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 21km. 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 La Garnache, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to La Garnache
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 Garnache.
Note that all distances from La Garnache shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
La Garnache holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to La Garnache (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 France and Vendee 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 La Garnache and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin des plantes (42km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Jean-de-Monts (21km) : Notre-Dame-de-Monts (24km) : Nantes (38km) :
Map of places to visit near La Garnache & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Garnache
Canton: Challans
Arrondissement: Sables-d'Olonne
Department: Vendee
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 85710
Distance to La Garnache
from La Roche-sur-Yon: 39 km
from Paris: 381 km
from Calais: 525 km
from Nice: 795 km
from Bordeaux: 248 km
from Strasbourg: 740 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of La Garnache): Bois-de-Cene, Challans and Froidfond.
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 Garnache from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez La Garnache