Les Mathes travel guide
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Visit Les Mathes: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Les Mathes is situated in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 49 km from La Rochelle, the department capital. (General information: Les Mathes is 437 km from Paris and 623 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in La Tremblade at 6 km from Les Mathes
Popular places to visit near Les Mathes: these include La Tremblade at 6 km and Mornac-sur-Seudre at 9 km.
Mornac-sur-Seudre is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 9km and Royan is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 14km. 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 Mathes, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Les Mathes
See France This Way travel guides for Charente-Maritime and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Les Mathes.
Note that all distances from Les Mathes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Les Mathes holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Les Mathes (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-Maritime 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 Mathes and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins de la Boirie (28km) : La Roche Courbon (31km) : Jardins du phare de Chassiron (39km) : Parcs et jardins du château de Beaulon (47km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Mornac-sur-Seudre (9km) : Talmont (28km) :
- Religious monuments: Upper Church et lower Church de Saint Eutrope (Saintes) (40km) : Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes (Saintes) (41km) : Eglise de Saint-Savinien (Fenioux) (47km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Royan (14km) : Saintes (41km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Rochefort (29km) :
- Grand Site of France: Brouage Fortifications (16km) :
Map of places to visit near Les Mathes & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Mathes
Canton: Tremblade
Arrondissement: Rochefort
Department: Charente-Maritime
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 17570
Distance to Les Mathes
from La Rochelle: 49 km
from Paris: 437 km
from Calais: 623 km
from Nice: 701 km
from Bordeaux: 108 km
from Strasbourg: 744 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 4 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Les Mathes): Arvert, Etaules, La Palmyre and Saint-Augustin.
Getting here
Charente-Maritime is in the west of France. Most visitors will arrive by car typically from a channel ferry ports such as Saint Malo, Caen or Cherbourg, a drive af about 4-5 hours. For driving distances to Les Mathes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Les Mathes