Luisant travel guide
Visit Luisant: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Chartres at 1 km from Luisant
Location: Luisant 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: Luisant is 80 km from Paris and 282 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Luisant: these include Chartres at 1 km and Chartres Cathedral at 2 km. Chartres is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 2 km and Chartres is a listed secteur sauvegarde at 2 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 Luisant, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Luisant
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 Luisant.
Note that all distances from Luisant shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Luisant 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 Luisant
- Luce: market every Sunday (1km)
- Chartres: market every Saturday (2km)
- Courville-sur-Eure: market every Thursday (17km)
- Maintenon: market every Thursday (20km)
- Voves: market every Tuesday (21km)
- Auneau: market every Friday (22km)
- Nogent-le-Roi: market every Saturday (25km)
- Bonneval: market every Monday (28km)
- Brou: market every Wednesday (33km)
- La Loupe: market every Tuesday (34km)
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 Luisant and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Luisant map below.
Heritage Site Chartres Cathedral (2km)
National Monument Rambouillet Chateau (36km); Chateaudun (41km)
Recommended Detour Chateaudun (41km)
Regional Natural Parc Haute Vallee de Chevreuse (46km)
Religious Monument Cathédrale de Chartres (Chartres) (2km); Abbaye Notre Dame des Vaulx de Cernay (Cernay-la-Ville) (44km)
Remarkable Garden Le pré Catelan (22km); Domaine national de Rambouillet (35km); Parc du château de Groussay (47km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Chartres (2km)
Town Of Art And History Rambouillet (35km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Chartres (2km); Moutiers (27km)
Map of places to visit near Luisant & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Luisant
Canton: Chartres-Sud-Ouest
Arrondissement: Chartres
Department: Eure-et-Loir
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 28600
Distance to Luisant
from Chartres (local prefecture): 3 km
from Paris: 80 km
from Calais: 282 km
from Nice: 690 km
from Bordeaux: 429 km
from Strasbourg: 462 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 14 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Luisant): Barjouville, Bercheres-les-Pierres, Champhol, Chartres, Chartres Cathedral, Fontenay-sur-Eure, Gellainville, Le Coudray, Leves, Luce, 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 Luisant from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Luisant