Leyme travel guide
Visit Leyme: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Lacapelle-Marival at 7 km from Leyme
Location: Leyme is situated in the Lot department (Midi-Pyrenees region) in the south of France at 52 km from Cahors, the department capital. (General information: Leyme is 454 km from Paris and 685 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Leyme: these include Lacapelle-Marival at 7 km and Saint-Cere at 8 km. Chateau Montal is a listed national monument at 9 km and Autoire is a listed most beautiful village at 10 km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
Selected places to visit and attractions near Leyme, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Leyme
See France This Way travel guides for Lot and Midi-Pyrenees (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Leyme.
Note that all distances from Leyme shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Leyme holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see our hotel search (from a leading hotel agent 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 Midi-Pyrenees and Lot gites and villas
Markets near Leyme
- Bretenoux: market every Tuesday (15km)
- Figeac: market every Saturday (22km)
- Vayrac: market every Thursday & Saturday (24km)
- Maurs: market every Thursday (25km)
- Martel: market every Wednesday & Saturday (28km)
- Laroquebrou: market every Friday - seasonal market only - (30km)
- Monceaux-sur-Dordogne: market every Thursday - seasonal market only - (33km)
- Meyssac: market every Tuesday & Friday (35km)
- Souillac: market every Friday (35km)
- Decazeville: market every Tuesday & Friday (37km)
- Aubin: market every Wednesday & Friday (40km)
- Cransac: market every Tuesday - seasonal market only - (42km)
- Firmi: market every Saturday (43km)
- Cahors: market every Wednesday & Saturday (52km)
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 Leyme and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Leyme map below.
Grand Site Of France Rocamadour (22km)
Heritage Site Figeac Hopital St Jacques (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (22km); Rocamadour basilique Saint-Sauveur (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (22km); Gréalou dolmen de Pech-Laglaire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (28km); Conques pont sur le Dourdou (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (44km); Conques abbatiale Sainte-Foy (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (45km); Cahors cathédrale St Etienne (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (52km); Cahors Pont-Valentré (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (53km)
Most Beautiful Village Autoire (10km); Loubressac (12km); Carennac (20km); Curemonte (26km); Collonges-la-Rouge (36km); Turenne (39km); Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (40km); Conques (44km)
National Monument Chateau Montal (9km); Assier Chateau (12km); Castelnau-Bretenoux Chateau (14km)
Recommended Detour Figeac (24km)
Regional Natural Parc Causses du Quercy (29km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint Pierre (Carennac) (20km); Abbaye Sainte Marie (Souillac) (35km)
Remarkable Garden Jardins secrets de Cahors (52km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Figeac (22km); Cahors (52km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Gouffre de Padirac (14km); Gouffre de la Fage (46km)
Town Of Art And History Figeac (24km); Cahors (53km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Cahors (52km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Le rocher des aigles (eagles) (23km)
Map of places to visit near Leyme & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Leyme
Canton: Lacapelle-Marival
Arrondissement: Figeac
Department: Lot
Region: Midi-Pyrenees
Postcode: 46120
Distance to Leyme
from Cahors (local prefecture): 52 km
from Paris: 454 km
from Calais: 685 km
from Nice: 444 km
from Bordeaux: 195 km
from Strasbourg: 614 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 12 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Leyme): Anglars, Aynac, Bannes, Espeyroux, Ladirat, Molieres, Rueyres, Saint-Jean-Lagineste, Saint-Maurice-en-Quercy, Saint-Paul-de-Vern, Saint-Vincent-du-Pendit and Themines.
Getting here
For driving distances to Leyme from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Leyme