Le Breil-sur-Merize travel guide
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Visit Le Breil-sur-Merize: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Le Breil-sur-Merize is situated in the Sarthe department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the north-west of France at 21 km from Le Mans, the department capital. (General information: Le Breil-sur-Merize is 167 km from Paris and 342 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Le Mans at 21 km from Le Breil-sur-Merize
Popular places to visit near Le Breil-sur-Merize: these include Le Mans at 21 km and Belleme at 42 km.
Abbaye de l'Epau (Yvre-l'Eveque) is a listed 'religious monument' at 15km and Cogners is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 20km. 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 Le Breil-sur-Merize, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Le Breil-sur-Merize
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 Le Breil-sur-Merize.
Note that all distances from Le Breil-sur-Merize shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Le Breil-sur-Merize holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Le Breil-sur-Merize (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 Le Breil-sur-Merize and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin d’atmosphère du Petit Bordeaux (27km) : Jardins du château de Poncé (30km) : Jardin du château de Vilaines (33km) : Jardins du Mirail (40km) : Jardins de la Massonnière (46km) : Jardin du domaine de Sasnières (47km) : Parc et jardins du château du Lude (47km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Lavardin (42km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de l'Epau (Yvre-l'Eveque) (15km) : Cathédrale Saint Julien (Le Mans) (21km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cogners (20km) : Coulaines (21km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Le Mans (21km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Nogent-le-Rotrou (43km) :
Map of places to visit near Le Breil-sur-Merize & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Breil-sur-Mérize
Canton: Montfort-le-Gesnois
Arrondissement: Mans
Department: Sarthe
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 72370
Distance to Le Breil-sur-Merize
from Le Mans: 21 km
from Paris: 167 km
from Calais: 342 km
from Nice: 711 km
from Bordeaux: 362 km
from Strasbourg: 541 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Le Breil-sur-Merize): Ardenay-sur-Merize, Bouloire, Connerre, Montfort-le-Gesnois, Nuille-le-Jalais, Soulitre, Surfonds and Thorigne-sur-Due.
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 Le Breil-sur-Merize from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Le Breil-sur-Merize