Les Essards travel guide
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Visit Les Essards: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Les Essards is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 46 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Les Essards is 436 km from Paris and 648 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Aubeterre-sur-Dronne at 6 km from Les Essards
Popular places to visit near Les Essards: these include Aubeterre-sur-Dronne at 6 km and Riberac at 17 km.
Aubeterre-sur-Dronne is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 6km and Eglise Notre Dame de Faye (Faye) is a listed 'religious monument' at 18km. 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 Les Essards, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Les Essards
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Les Essards.
Note that all distances from Les Essards shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Les Essards holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Les Essards (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente 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 Les Essards and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Logis de Forge (35km) : Jardins du château de Montréal (36km) : Jardin du Chaigne (41km) : Jardins du Sardy (42km) : Jardin du Fond de l’or (48km) :
- National Monuments: Montcaret Archaeological site (42km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (6km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise Notre Dame de Faye (Faye) (18km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (30km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps) (32km) : Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (39km) : Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (41km) : Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (42km) : Ancien Prieuré de Merlande (La Chapelle-Gonaguet) (42km) : Abbaye Notre Dame (Chancelade) (43km) : Abbaye Saint Pierre (Brantome) (44km) : Collégiale et chapelle de la Trinité (Saint-Emilion) (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Angouleme (46km) : Perigueux (48km) :
- Heritage Sites: Saint-Emilion (44km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Jonzac (49km) :
Map of places to visit near Les Essards & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Essards
Canton: Aubeterre-sur-Dronne
Arrondissement: Angoulême
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16210
Distance to Les Essards
from Angouleme: 46 km
from Paris: 436 km
from Calais: 648 km
from Nice: 592 km
from Bordeaux: 70 km
from Strasbourg: 688 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Les Essards): Aubeterre-sur-Dronne, Bazac, Bonnes, Chenaud, Laprade, Orival, Puymangou, Rouffiac, Saint-Aulaye, Saint-Avit, Saint-Quentin-de-Chalais, Saint-Romain and Saint-Vincent-Jalmoutiers.
Getting here
Charente is in the west of France. Most visitors to the region come by car with arrive here by car with the ferry ports at Saint Malo taking about 5 hours driving time. For driving distances to Les Essards from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Les Essards