Marais Poitevin travel guide
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Visit Marais Poitevin: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Marais Poitevin is situated in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 45 km from La Rochelle, the department capital. (General information: Marais Poitevin is 360 km from Paris and 547 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Marais Poitevin (page also includes a photo gallery for Marais Poitevin)
Popular places to visit near Marais Poitevin: these include Coulon at 3 km and Niort at 11 km.
Coulon is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 3km and Marais Poitevin is a listed 'grand site of france' at 6km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Marais Poitevin, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Marais Poitevin
See France This Way travel guides for Charente-Maritime and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Marais Poitevin.
Note that all distances from Marais Poitevin shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Marais Poitevin holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Marais Poitevin (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente-Maritime 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 Marais Poitevin and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Arboretum du chemin de la découverte (36km) : Jardins du Bâtiment (42km) : La Guyonnière (42km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Coulon (3km) : Vouvant (33km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint-Eulalie (Benet) (7km) : Abbaye Saint Pierre et Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Maillezais) (13km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame de l'Assomption (Maille) (15km) : Abbaye Royale (Nieul-sur-l'Autise) (15km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Dampierre-sur-Boutonne) (30km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame (Vouvant) (33km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Aulnay) (36km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Melle) (36km) : Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (38km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Varaize) (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Marans (30km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Parthenay (47km) : Rochefort (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Fontenay-le-Comte (24km) :
- Grand Site of France: Marais Poitevin (6km) :
Map of places to visit near Marais Poitevin & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Marais Poitevin
Canton: na
Arrondissement: na
Department: Charente-Maritime
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: na
Distance to Marais Poitevin
from La Rochelle: 45 km
from Paris: 360 km
from Calais: 547 km
from Nice: 682 km
from Bordeaux: 163 km
from Strasbourg: 677 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Marais Poitevin): Amure, Coulon, Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan, Le Mazeau, Magne, Saint-Georges-de-Rex and Sansais.
Getting here
Charente-Maritime is in the west of France. Most visitors will arrive by car typically from a channel ferry ports such as Saint Malo, Caen or Cherbourg, a drive af about 4-5 hours. For driving distances to Marais Poitevin from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Marais Poitevin