Lavieu travel guide
Visit Lavieu: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Ambert at 23 km from Lavieu
Location: Lavieu is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 30 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: Lavieu is 390 km from Paris and 623 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Lavieu: these include Ambert at 23 km and Saint-Etienne at 30 km. Col des Pradeaux is a listed site of natural beauty at 15 km and Jardin de l’écomusée is a listed remarkable garden at 18 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 Lavieu, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Lavieu
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Lavieu.
Note that all distances from Lavieu shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Lavieu 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 Rhone-Alpes and Loire gites and villas
Markets near Lavieu
- Montbrison: market every Saturday (8km)
- Sury-le-Comtal: market every Wednesday (12km)
- Saint-Bonnet-le-Chateau: market every Friday (13km)
- Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert: market every Wednesday & Thursday & Sunday & Saturday (17km)
- Andrezieux-Boutheon: market every Tuesday (17km)
- Usson-en-Forez: market every Sunday (18km)
- Montrond-les-Bains: market every Thursday (19km)
- Veauche: market every Wednesday (19km)
- Saint-Pal-de-Chalencon: market every Wednesday (21km)
- Boen: market every Thursday (23km)
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 Lavieu and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Lavieu map below.
Recommended Detour Ambert (23km); Saint-Galmier (23km); Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (35km)
Regional Natural Parc Livradois-Forez (33km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin de l’écomusée (18km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Thiers (52km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Col des Pradeaux (15km)
Town Of Art And History Saint-Etienne (29km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saint-Galmier (23km)
Map of places to visit near Lavieu & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Lavieu
Canton: Saint-Jean-Soleymieux
Arrondissement: Montbrison
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42560
Distance to Lavieu
from Saint-Etienne (local prefecture): 30 km
from Paris: 390 km
from Calais: 623 km
from Nice: 327 km
from Bordeaux: 370 km
from Strasbourg: 440 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 12 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Lavieu): Bard, Boisset-Saint-Priest, Chazelles-sur-Lavieu, Ecotay-l'Olme, Gumieres, Lezigneux, Margerie-Chantagret, Saint-Georges-Haute-Ville, Saint-Jean-Soleymieux, Saint-Thomas-la-Garde, Soleymieux and Verrieres-en-Forez.
Getting here
For driving distances to Lavieu from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Lavieu