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Maintenon travel guide

Visit Maintenon: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Maintenon is situated in the Eure-et-Loir department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 18 km from Chartres, the department capital. (General information: Maintenon is 63 km from Paris and 263 km from the port at Calais).

Note: The photo above was taken in Chartres Cathedral at 18 km from Maintenon

Popular places to visit near Maintenon: these include Chartres Cathedral at 18 km and Chartres at 20 km.

Chartres is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 18km and Domaine national de Rambouillet is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 18km. 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 Maintenon, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Maintenon

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 Maintenon.

Note that all distances from Maintenon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.

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 Maintenon and wondering what to do next!

1. 'Remarkable gardens': Domaine national de Rambouillet (18km) : Parc du château de Groussay (27km) : Parc du château de Breteuil (34km) : Parc du château de Thoiry (34km) : Parc de Courson (41km) : Le pré Catelan (41km) : Parc du château de Beauregard (43km) : Parc de Versailles (46km) : Potager du roi, Versailles (46km) : Parc de Chamarande (48km) :
2. National Monuments: Rambouillet Chateau (19km) : Villa Savoye (49km) :
3. Religious monuments: Cathédrale de Chartres (Chartres) (18km) : Abbaye Notre Dame des Vaulx de Cernay (Cernay-la-Ville) (28km) : Notre Dame de Port Royal des Champs (Magny-les-Hameaux) (40km) : Eglise de Sainte Geneviève (Feucherolles) (42km) : Collegiale de Saint Martin (Etampes) (45km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Orgeval) (46km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Etampes) (46km) : Eglise de Saint Basile (Etampes) (46km) : Eglise de Saint Etienne (Mareil-Marly) (48km) : Eglise de Saint Martin et Saint Blaise (Louveciennes) (49km) :
4. Town / village in bloom 4*: Chartres (18km) : Moutiers (36km) : Velizy-Villacoublay (49km) :
5. Heritage Sites: Chartres Cathedral (18km) : Versailles Palace (47km) :
6. Towns of Art and History: Rambouillet (19km) : Etampes (46km) :

Map of places to visit near Maintenon & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Maintenon

Canton: Maintenon

Arrondissement: Chartres

Department: Eure-et-Loir

Region: Loire Valley

Postcode: 28130

Distance to Maintenon

from Chartres: 18 km

from Paris: 63 km

from Calais: 263 km

from Nice: 698 km

from Bordeaux: 449 km

from Strasbourg: 453 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 Maintenon): Bouglainval, Chartainvilliers, Hanches, Houx, Mevoisins, Neron, Pierres, Saint-Martin-de-Nigelles, Saint-Piat, Villiers-le-Morhier and Yermenonville.

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 Maintenon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Maintenon