Lacs travel guide
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Visit Lacs: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Lacs is situated in the Indre department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 35 km from Chateauroux, the department capital. (General information: Lacs is 254 km from Paris and 485 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Culan at 25 km from Lacs
Popular places to visit near Lacs: these include Culan at 25 km and Gargilesse-Dampierre at 34 km.
La Chatre is a listed 'recommended detour' at 3km and George Sand House is a listed 'national monument' at 6km. 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 Lacs, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Lacs
See France This Way travel guides for Indre and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Lacs.
Note that all distances from Lacs shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Lacs holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Lacs (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 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 Lacs and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du domaine de George Sand (8km) : Jardins du prieuré Notre-Dame-d'Orsan (16km) : Les jardins artistiques de Drulon (29km) : Jardins du château d'Ainay-le-Vieil (31km) : Jardin-arboretum de La Sédelle (38km) :
- National Monuments: George Sand House (6km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint-Georges (Saint-Jeanvrin) (16km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Ineuil) (29km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de Noirlac et Saint Etienne Prieuré (Bruere-Allichamps) (38km) : Abbaye de La Celle (La Celle) (38km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Chateauroux (35km) : Saint-Amand-Montrond (40km) : Issoudun (41km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: La Chatre (3km) :
Map of places to visit near Lacs & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Lacs
Canton: Châtre
Arrondissement: Châtre
Department: Indre
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 36400
Distance to Lacs
from Chateauroux: 35 km
from Paris: 254 km
from Calais: 485 km
from Nice: 521 km
from Bordeaux: 280 km
from Strasbourg: 483 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Lacs): Briantes, La Chatre, La Motte-Feuilly, Le Magny, Lourouer-Saint-Laurent, Montgivray, Montlevicq and Thevet-Saint-Julien.
Getting here
Indre is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into a Paris airport and drive from there or arrive in a cross-channel port with Le Havre and Caen about 3-4 hours distance in the car. For driving distances to Lacs from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Lacs