La Riche travel guide
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Visit La Riche: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: La Riche is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 2 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: La Riche is 205 km from Paris and 405 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Tours at 2 km from La Riche
Popular places to visit near La Riche: these include Tours at 2 km and Chateau de Villandry at 13 km.
Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 1km and Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 2km. 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 Riche, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to La Riche
See France This Way travel guides for Indre-et-Loire and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of La Riche.
Note that all distances from La Riche shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
La Riche holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to La Riche (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 Indre-et-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 Riche and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (2km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (13km) : Parc et jardins du château de Valmer (17km) : Les jardins de la Chatonnière (21km) : Parc et jardins du château de Chenonceau (31km) : Parc de Lathan (39km) : Domaine régional de Chaumont-sur-Loire (40km) : Jardins du château de Poncé (41km) : Jardin du domaine de Sasnières (42km) : Les jardins du château du Rivau (42km) :
- National Monuments: Cloisters of la Psalette (2km) : Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (21km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Crissay-sur-Manse (30km) : Lavardin (42km) : Montresor (48km) : Candes-Saint-Martin (49km) :
- Religious monuments: Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (1km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Tours (2km) : Amboise (24km) : Chinon (39km) : Loches (40km) :
Map of places to visit near La Riche & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Riche
Canton: Ballan-Miré
Arrondissement: Tours
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 37520
Distance to La Riche
from Tours: 2 km
from Paris: 205 km
from Calais: 405 km
from Nice: 657 km
from Bordeaux: 300 km
from Strasbourg: 543 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 10 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of La Riche): Ballan-Mire, Chambray-les-Tours, Fondettes, Joue-les-Tours, Parcay-Meslay, Saint-Avertin, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Saint-Genouph, Saint-Pierre-Des-Corps and Tours.
Getting here
Indre-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to La Riche from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez La Riche