Les Essards travel guide
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Visit Les Essards: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Les Essards is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 30 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Les Essards is 226 km from Paris and 416 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Chateau de Villandry at 16 km from Les Essards
Popular places to visit near Les Essards: these include Chateau de Villandry at 16 km and Chinon at 18 km.
Les jardins de la Chatonnière is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 16km and Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau is a listed 'national monument' at 16km. 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 Indre-et-Loire and Loire Valley (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 France and Indre-et-Loire 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': Les jardins de la Chatonnière (16km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (16km) : Parc de Lathan (18km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (28km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (30km) : Les jardins du château du Rivau (30km) : Parc et jardins du château du Lude (35km) : Parc et jardins du château de Valmer (45km) :
- National Monuments: Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (16km) : Fontevraud Abbey (26km) : Cloisters of la Psalette (30km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Candes-Saint-Martin (23km) : Montsoreau (24km) : Crissay-sur-Manse (26km) :
- Religious monuments: Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (23km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (27km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (40km) : Prieuré de Notre-Dame de Cunault (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (40km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (28km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Chinon (18km) : Tours (30km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Loudun (41km) : Montreuil-Bellay (42km) : La Fleche (48km) :
Map of places to visit near Les Essards & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Essards
Canton: Langeais
Arrondissement: Chinon
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 37130
Distance to Les Essards
from Tours: 30 km
from Paris: 226 km
from Calais: 416 km
from Nice: 677 km
from Bordeaux: 288 km
from Strasbourg: 571 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Les Essards): Avrille-les-Ponceaux, Continvoir and Saint-Michel-sur-Loire.
Getting here
Indre-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to Les Essards from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Les Essards