Lure travel guide
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Visit Lure: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Lure is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 59 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: Lure is 352 km from Paris and 584 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Thiers at 30 km from Lure
Popular places to visit near Lure: these include Thiers at 30 km and Livradois-Forez Regional Park at 33 km.
Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) is a listed 'religious monument' at 33km and Aulteribe Chateau is a listed 'national monument' at 36km. 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 Lure, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Lure
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Lure.
Note that all distances from Lure shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Lure holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Lure (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 Rhone-Alpes and 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 Lure and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du domaine royal de Randan (48km) :
- National Monuments: Aulteribe Chateau (36km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Semur-en-Brionnais (44km) :
- Religious monuments: Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (33km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (36km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (38km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Galmier (44km) : Vichy (48km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (36km) : Ambert (40km) : Lapalisse (47km) : Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (49km) :
Map of places to visit near Lure & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Luré
Canton: Saint-Germain-Laval
Arrondissement: Roanne
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42260
Distance to Lure
from Saint-Etienne: 59 km
from Paris: 352 km
from Calais: 584 km
from Nice: 357 km
from Bordeaux: 371 km
from Strasbourg: 416 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 10 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Lure): Bully, Cremeaux, Grezolles, Jure, Saint-Germain-Laval, Saint-Julien-d'Oddes, Saint-Marcel-d'Urfe, Saint-Martin-la-Sauvete, Saint-Polgues and Souternon.
Getting here
For driving distances to Lure from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Lure