Ligre travel guide
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Visit Ligre: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Ligre is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 44 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Ligre is 248 km from Paris and 442 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Chateau du Rivau at 3 km from Ligre
Popular places to visit near Ligre: these include Chateau du Rivau at 3 km and Chateau Chinon at 7 km.
Les jardins du château du Rivau is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 5km and Chinon is a listed 'town of art and history' at 9km. 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 Ligre, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Ligre
See France This Way travel guides for Indre-et-Loire and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Ligre.
Note that all distances from Ligre shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Ligre holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Ligre (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 France and Indre-et-Loire 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 Ligre and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins du château du Rivau (5km) : Les jardins de la Chatonnière (22km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (31km) : Parc de Lathan (41km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (42km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (44km) :
- National Monuments: Fontevraud Abbey (19km) : Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (22km) : Oiron Chateau (32km) : Cloisters of la Psalette (44km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Crissay-sur-Manse (16km) : Candes-Saint-Martin (19km) : Montsoreau (20km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (19km) : Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (19km) : Eglise Abbatial de Saint Jouin (Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes) (36km) : Eglise de Saint Généroux (Saint-Generoux) (41km) : Eglise abbatiale de Saint Pierre (Airvault) (45km) : Prieuré de Notre-Dame de Cunault (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (46km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (46km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Thouars (40km) : Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (43km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Chinon (9km) : Tours (44km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Loudun (19km) : Montreuil-Bellay (33km) :
Map of places to visit near Ligre & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Ligré
Canton: Richelieu
Arrondissement: Chinon
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 37500
Distance to Ligre
from Tours: 44 km
from Paris: 248 km
from Calais: 442 km
from Nice: 664 km
from Bordeaux: 262 km
from Strasbourg: 581 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 11 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Ligre): Anche, Assay, Champigny-sur-Veude, Chateau Chinon, Chateau du Rivau, Cravant-les-Coteaux, La Roche-Clermault, Lemere, Marcay, Riviere and Sazilly.
Getting here
Indre-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to Ligre from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Ligre