Lavenay travel guide
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Visit Lavenay: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Lavenay is situated in the Sarthe department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the north-west of France at 43 km from Le Mans, the department capital. (General information: Lavenay is 170 km from Paris and 361 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Lavardin at 15 km from Lavenay
Popular places to visit near Lavenay: these include Lavardin at 15 km and Vendome at 27 km.
Jardins du château de Poncé is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 5km and Cogners is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 9km. 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 Lavenay, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Lavenay
See France This Way travel guides for and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Lavenay.
Note that all distances from Lavenay shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Lavenay holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Lavenay (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 Sarthe 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 Lavenay and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Poncé (5km) : Jardin du domaine de Sasnières (19km) : Jardin d’atmosphère du Petit Bordeaux (35km) : Parc et jardins du château de Valmer (40km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (44km) : Parc et jardins du château du Lude (44km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (45km) :
- National Monuments: Cloisters of la Psalette (44km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Lavardin (15km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de l'Epau (Yvre-l'Eveque) (41km) : Cathédrale Saint Julien (Le Mans) (45km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cogners (9km) : Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (43km) : Coulaines (45km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Vendome (28km) : Tours (44km) : Le Mans (45km) : Amboise (46km) :
Map of places to visit near Lavenay & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Lavenay
Canton: Chartre-sur-le-Loir
Arrondissement: Mans
Department: Sarthe
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 72310
Distance to Lavenay
from Le Mans: 43 km
from Paris: 170 km
from Calais: 361 km
from Nice: 682 km
from Bordeaux: 343 km
from Strasbourg: 529 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 9 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Lavenay): Artins, Besse-sur-Braye, Bonneveau, Celle, Couture-sur-Loir, La Chapelle-Gaugain, Ponce-sur-le-Loir, Souge and Vance.
Getting here
Sarthe is in the north-west of France. Most visitors get here by car having taken a ferry, probably to Saint-Malo or Caen, and then a drive of around 2 - 3 hours. For driving distances to Lavenay from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Lavenay