La Motte-Fouquet travel guide
Visit La Motte-Fouquet: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Bagnoles de l'Orne at 10 km from La Motte-Fouquet
Location: La Motte-Fouquet is situated in the Orne department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 32 km from Alencon, the department capital. (General information: La Motte-Fouquet is 196 km from Paris and 306 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near La Motte-Fouquet: these include Bagnoles de l'Orne at 10 km and Domfront at 27 km. Carrouges Chateau is a listed national monument at 10 km and Normandie-Maine is a listed regional natural parc at 10 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 Motte-Fouquet, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to La Motte-Fouquet
See France This Way travel guides for Orne and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of La Motte-Fouquet.
Note that all distances from La Motte-Fouquet shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
La Motte-Fouquet 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 Normandy and Orne gites and villas
Markets near La Motte-Fouquet
- La Ferte-Mace: market every Thursday (6km)
- Bagnoles-de-l'Orne: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (10km)
- Briouze: market every Monday (16km)
- Villaines-la-Juhel: market every Monday (25km)
- Argentan: market every Tuesday & Friday (28km)
- Flers: market every Wednesday & Saturday (28km)
- Alencon: market every Tuesday & Thursday all day & Sunday & Saturday (31km)
- Sees: market every Saturday (34km)
- Conde-sur-Noireau: market every Thursday (37km)
- Falaise: market every Saturday (37km)
- Mayenne: market every Saturday & Monday (38km)
- Trun: market every Thursday (38km)
- Fresnay-sur-Sarthe: market every Saturday (39km)
- Gorron: market every Wednesday (43km)
- Beaumont-sur-Sarthe: market every Tuesday (49km)
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 Motte-Fouquet and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the La Motte-Fouquet map below.
Most Beautiful Village Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei (27km)
National Monument Carrouges Chateau (10km)
Recommended Detour Domfront (27km); Argentan (28km)
Regional Natural Parc Normandie-Maine (10km)
Remarkable Garden Sassy (24km)
Town Of Art And History Mayenne (38km); Jublains (38km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saint-Loup-du-Gast (30km); Saint-Fraimbault (32km)
Map of places to visit near La Motte-Fouquet & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Motte-Fouquet
Canton: Carrouges
Arrondissement: Alençon
Department: Orne
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 61600
Distance to La Motte-Fouquet
from Alencon (local prefecture): 32 km
from Paris: 196 km
from Calais: 306 km
from Nice: 794 km
from Bordeaux: 415 km
from Strasbourg: 591 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of La Motte-Fouquet): Beauvain, Joue-du-Bois, La Chaux, La Ferte-Mace, Lignieres-Orgeres, Magny-le-Desert and Saint-Patrice-du-Desert.
Getting here
Orne is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-challen ferry ports with Caen being especially close, typically within an hours drive. For driving distances to La Motte-Fouquet from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez La Motte-Fouquet