Les Essarts travel guide
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Visit Les Essarts: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Les Essarts is situated in the Vendee department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the west of France at 19 km from La Roche-sur-Yon, the department capital. (General information: Les Essarts is 353 km from Paris and 516 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Vouvant at 41 km from Les Essarts
Popular places to visit near Les Essarts: these include Vouvant at 41 km and Fontenay-le-Comte at 47 km.
Jardins de Chaligny is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 24km and Jardins du Bâtiment is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 29km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Tourist classifications for Les Essarts: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 2*;
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Les Essarts, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Les Essarts
See France This Way travel guides for Vendee and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Les Essarts.
Note that all distances from Les Essarts shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Les Essarts holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Les Essarts (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 Vendee 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 Essarts and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins de Chaligny (24km) : Jardins du Bâtiment (29km) : Parc oriental de Maulévrier (45km) :
- National Monuments: Georges Clemenceau house (47km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Vouvant (41km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Notre-Dame (Vouvant) (41km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Cholet (42km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Fontenay-le-Comte (47km) :
Map of places to visit near Les Essarts & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Essarts
Canton: Essarts
Arrondissement: Roche-sur-Yon
Department: Vendee
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 85140
Distance to Les Essarts
from La Roche-sur-Yon: 19 km
from Paris: 353 km
from Calais: 516 km
from Nice: 747 km
from Bordeaux: 221 km
from Strasbourg: 701 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 Essarts): La Merlatiere, Saint-Martin-Des-Noyers and Sainte-Florence.
Getting here
Vendee is in the west of France. Most visitors arrive by car from a cross-channel ferry port - Saint Malo is convenient at around 3 hours drive. For driving distances to Les Essarts from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Les Essarts