Luce travel guide
Visit Luce: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Chartres Cathedral at 2 km from Luce
Location: Luce is situated in the Eure-et-Loir department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 3 km from Chartres, the department capital. (General information: Luce is 81 km from Paris and 281 km from the port at Calais).
Market days in Luce: weekly market: Sunday; (markets take place in the morning unless indicated)
Popular places to visit near Luce: these include Chartres Cathedral at 2 km and Chartres at 3 km. Chartres is a listed secteur sauvegarde at 3 km and Chartres is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 3 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 Luce, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Luce
See France This Way travel guides for Eure-et-Loir and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Luce.
Note that all distances from Luce shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Luce 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 France and Eure-et-Loir gites and villas
Markets near Luce
- Luce: market every Sunday (0km)
- Chartres: market every Saturday (3km)
- Courville-sur-Eure: market every Thursday (16km)
- Maintenon: market every Thursday (20km)
- Voves: market every Tuesday (22km)
- Auneau: market every Friday (23km)
- Nogent-le-Roi: market every Saturday (24km)
- Bonneval: market every Monday (29km)
- Brou: market every Wednesday (33km)
- La Loupe: market every Tuesday (33km)
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 Luce and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Luce map below.
Heritage Site Chartres Cathedral (3km)
National Monument Rambouillet Chateau (36km)
Regional Natural Parc Haute Vallee de Chevreuse (47km)
Religious Monument Cathédrale de Chartres (Chartres) (3km); Abbaye Notre Dame des Vaulx de Cernay (Cernay-la-Ville) (45km)
Remarkable Garden Le pré Catelan (21km); Domaine national de Rambouillet (35km); Parc du château de Groussay (47km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Chartres (3km)
Town Of Art And History Rambouillet (36km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Chartres (3km); Moutiers (28km)
Map of places to visit near Luce & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Lucé
Canton: Lucé
Arrondissement: Chartres
Department: Eure-et-Loir
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 28110
Distance to Luce
from Chartres (local prefecture): 3 km
from Paris: 81 km
from Calais: 281 km
from Nice: 691 km
from Bordeaux: 429 km
from Strasbourg: 464 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Luce): Amilly, Barjouville, Champhol, Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, Fontenay-sur-Eure, Gellainville, Le Coudray, Leves, Luisant, Mainvilliers, Morancez, Thivars and Ver-les-Chartres.
Getting here
Eure-et-Loir is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into Paris CDG or Orly airport and hire a car. The drive from the channel ferry ports such as Caen or Le Havre takes around 3 hours. For driving distances to Luce from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Luce