Les Esseintes travel guide
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Visit Les Esseintes: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Les Esseintes is situated in the Gironde department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France at 43 km from Bordeaux, the department capital. (General information: Les Esseintes is 507 km from Paris and 719 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in La Reole at 3 km from Les Esseintes
Popular places to visit near Les Esseintes: these include La Reole at 3 km and Sauveterre-de-Guyenne at 9 km.
Jardins du château de Malle is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 19km and Cadillac Chateau is a listed 'national monument' at 20km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Les Esseintes, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Les Esseintes
See France This Way travel guides for Gironde and Aquitaine (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Les Esseintes.
Note that all distances from Les Esseintes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Les Esseintes holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Les Esseintes (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 Aquitaine and Gironde 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 Esseintes and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du château de Malle (19km) : Jardin du cloître Notre-Dame (21km) : Jardins de Beauchamp (21km) : Jardins du château de Mongenan (30km) : Jardins du Sardy (31km) : Parc du château de Grenade (33km) : Jardins du château de Vayres (37km) : Parc et potager de Pouthet (38km) : Jardin du Fond de l’or (44km) :
- National Monuments: Cadillac Chateau (20km) : Sauve-Majeure Abbey (26km) : Montcaret Archaeological site (30km) : Pey-Berland Tower (47km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye de la Sauve Majeure (La Sauve) (26km) : Collégiale et chapelle de la Trinité (Saint-Emilion) (32km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps) (41km) :
- Heritage Sites: Saint-Emilion (33km) : Bordeaux Port (48km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Bordeaux (47km) :
Map of places to visit near Les Esseintes & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Esseintes
Canton: Réole
Arrondissement: Langon
Department: Gironde
Region: Aquitaine
Postcode: 33190
Distance to Les Esseintes
from Bordeaux: 43 km
from Paris: 507 km
from Calais: 719 km
from Nice: 594 km
from Bordeaux: 47 km
from Strasbourg: 742 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 21 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Les Esseintes): Bagas, Barie, Bassanne, Camiran, Casseuil, Floudes, Fontet, Gironde-sur-Dropt, La Reole, Landerrouet-sur-Segur, Loubens, Mesterrieux, Montagoudin, Morizes, Neuffons, Saint-Exupery, Saint-Felix-de-Foncaude, Saint-Laurent-du-Bois, Saint-Laurent-du-Plan, Saint-Martin-de-Lerm and Saint-Seve.
Getting here
Gironde is in the south-west of France. Most visitors will fly into Bordeaux airport (or Bergerac) while drivers should allow 7-8 hours driving time from the ports at Le Havre or Cherbourg. For driving distances to Les Esseintes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Les Esseintes