Les Olmes travel guide
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Visit Les Olmes: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Les Olmes is situated in the Rhone department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 28 km from Lyon, the department capital. (General information: Les Olmes is 369 km from Paris and 597 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Bagnols at 8 km from Les Olmes
Popular places to visit near Les Olmes: these include Bagnols at 8 km and Oingt at 9 km.
Oingt is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 9km and Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 15km. 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 Olmes, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Les Olmes
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Les Olmes.
Note that all distances from Les Olmes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Les Olmes holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Les Olmes (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 Rhone-Alpes and Rhone 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 Olmes and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (15km) : Parc du château de Laye (26km) : Parc de la Tête d'Or (28km) : Parc de Gerland (29km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (41km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Oingt (9km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Saint Martin d'Ainey (Lyon) (28km) : Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon) (29km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (41km) : Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (41km) : Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (43km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Ecully (24km) : Saint-Galmier (36km) : Chaponnay (43km) : Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (43km) :
- Heritage Sites: Historic Lyon (29km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Vienne (49km) : Saint-Etienne (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (21km) : Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (28km) : Charlieu (41km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (49km) :
Map of places to visit near Les Olmes & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Olmes
Canton: Tarare
Arrondissement: Villefranche-sur-Saône
Department: Rhone
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 69490
Distance to Les Olmes
from Lyon: 28 km
from Paris: 369 km
from Calais: 597 km
from Nice: 325 km
from Bordeaux: 414 km
from Strasbourg: 387 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 Olmes): Ancy, Bully, Dareize, Le Bois-d'Oingt, Le Breuil, Legny, Pontcharra-sur-Turdine, Saint-Clement-sur-Valsonne, Saint-Forgeux, Saint-Loup, Saint-Romain-de-Popey, Saint-Verand and Sarcey.
Getting here
For driving distances to Les Olmes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Les Olmes