La Gresle travel guide
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Visit La Gresle: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: La Gresle is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 70 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: La Gresle is 342 km from Paris and 571 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Semur-en-Brionnais at 26 km from La Gresle
Popular places to visit near La Gresle: these include Semur-en-Brionnais at 26 km and Oingt at 27 km.
Charlieu is a listed 'recommended detour' at 13km and Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) is a listed 'religious monument' at 13km. 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 La Gresle, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to La Gresle
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of La Gresle.
Note that all distances from La Gresle shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
La Gresle holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to La Gresle (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 Rhone-Alpes and Loire 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 Gresle and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Le jardin de Zéphyr (19km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (26km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (29km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (31km) : Parc du château de Laye (34km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (35km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Semur-en-Brionnais (26km) : Oingt (27km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (13km) : Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (15km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (21km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (26km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (31km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (31km) : Prieuré d'Anzy-le-Duc (Anzy-le-Duc) (32km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) (36km) : Basilique du Sacré-Cœur (Paray-le-Monial) (43km) : Eglise de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Neuilly-en-Donjon) (43km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Paray-le-Monial (44km) : Macon (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (13km) : Trevoux (41km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (42km) :
Map of places to visit near La Gresle & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Gresle
Canton: Belmont-de-la-Loire
Arrondissement: Roanne
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42460
Distance to La Gresle
from Saint-Etienne: 70 km
from Paris: 342 km
from Calais: 571 km
from Nice: 353 km
from Bordeaux: 403 km
from Strasbourg: 382 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 16 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of La Gresle): Bourg-de-Thizy, Boyer, Combre, Cours-la-Ville, Coutouvre, Cuinzier, Jarnosse, La Chapelle-de-Mardore, Le Cergne, Mardore, Marnand, Montagny, Pont-Trambouze, Sevelinges, Thizy and Villers.
Getting here
For driving distances to La Gresle from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez La Gresle