Marcay travel guide
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Visit Marcay: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Marcay is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 48 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Marcay is 252 km from Paris and 444 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Chateau Chinon at 7 km from Marcay
Popular places to visit near Marcay: these include Chateau Chinon at 7 km and Chateau du Rivau at 8 km.
Les jardins du château du Rivau is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 9km and Chinon is a listed 'town of art and history' at 10km. 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 Marcay, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Marcay
See France This Way travel guides for Indre-et-Loire and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Marcay.
Note that all distances from Marcay shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Marcay holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Marcay (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 France and Indre-et-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 Marcay and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins du château du Rivau (9km) : Les jardins de la Chatonnière (26km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (35km) : Parc de Lathan (42km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (47km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (48km) :
- National Monuments: Fontevraud Abbey (16km) : Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (26km) : Oiron Chateau (28km) : Cloisters of la Psalette (48km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Candes-Saint-Martin (16km) : Montsoreau (18km) : Crissay-sur-Manse (21km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (16km) : Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (16km) : Eglise Abbatial de Saint Jouin (Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes) (32km) : Eglise de Saint Généroux (Saint-Generoux) (36km) : Eglise abbatiale de Saint Pierre (Airvault) (41km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (43km) : Prieuré de Notre-Dame de Cunault (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (43km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Thouars (35km) : Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (48km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Chinon (10km) : Tours (48km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Loudun (14km) : Montreuil-Bellay (28km) :
Map of places to visit near Marcay & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Marçay
Canton: Chinon
Arrondissement: Chinon
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 37500
Distance to Marcay
from Tours: 48 km
from Paris: 252 km
from Calais: 444 km
from Nice: 667 km
from Bordeaux: 259 km
from Strasbourg: 586 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 Marcay): Assay, Beuxes, Cinais, La Roche-Clermault, Ligre, Riviere and Seuilly.
Getting here
Indre-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to Marcay from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Marcay