Les Pins travel guide
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Visit Les Pins: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Les Pins is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 27 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Les Pins is 368 km from Paris and 580 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in La Rochefoucauld at 9 km from Les Pins
Popular places to visit near Les Pins: these include La Rochefoucauld at 9 km and Bayers at 17 km.
Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) is a listed 'religious monument' at 8km and Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 25km. 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 Pins, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Les Pins
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Les Pins.
Note that all distances from Les Pins shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Les Pins holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Les Pins (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 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 Pins and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (25km) : Jardin monastique médiéval (28km) : Logis de Forge (36km) : Jardin de Liliane (44km) :
- National Monuments: Abbey Saint-Sauveur de Charroux (36km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (8km) : Eglise de Saint André (Ruffec) (27km) : Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (27km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chatain) (28km) : Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (28km) : Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (30km) : Eglise de Genouillé (Genouille) (32km) : Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (32km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (33km) : Abbaye Bénédictine (Charroux) (36km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Angouleme (27km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Confolens (31km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Nontron (39km) :
Map of places to visit near Les Pins & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Pins
Canton: Saint-Claud
Arrondissement: Confolens
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16260
Distance to Les Pins
from Angouleme: 27 km
from Paris: 368 km
from Calais: 580 km
from Nice: 592 km
from Bordeaux: 133 km
from Strasbourg: 635 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Les Pins): Agris, Chasseneuil-sur-Bonnieure, La Rochette, La Tache, Lussac, Saint-Mary, Sainte-Colombe and Taponnat-Fleurignac.
Getting here
Charente is in the west of France. Most visitors to the region come by car with arrive here by car with the ferry ports at Saint Malo taking about 5 hours driving time. For driving distances to Les Pins from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Les Pins