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Melun travel guide

Visit Melun: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Melun is situated in the Seine-et-Marne department (Paris region) in the Paris region of France - it is the prefecture (capital) of the Seine-et-Marne department. (General information: Melun is 42 km from Paris and 274 km from the port at Calais).

Note: The photo above was taken in Catacombs at 40 km from Melun

Popular places to visit near Melun: these include Catacombs at 40 km and Paris at 42 km.

Le Mee-sur-Seine is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 2km and Abbaye du Lys (Dammarie-les-Lys) is a listed 'religious monument' at 4km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

Tourist classifications for Melun: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 4*;

Photos taken within 10 km

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Selected places to visit and attractions near Melun, France

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

Note that all distances from Melun 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 Melun and wondering what to do next!

1. 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (5km) : Domaine national de Fontainebleau (16km) : Parc du château de Courances (18km) : Parc de Chamarande (33km) : Domaine national de Champs-sur-Marne (35km) : Parc du domaine de Sceaux (37km) : Parc de Courson (38km) : Maison de Chateaubriand (39km) : Parc du château de Beauregard (39km) : Jardin du Palais-Royal (43km) :
2. National Monuments: Champs-sur-Marne Chateau (35km) : Vincennes Chateau (37km) : Notre Dame cathedral (41km) : Pantheon (41km) : Conciergerie (42km) : Sainte-Chapelle (42km) : Chapelle Expiatoire (44km) : Maison des Jardies (46km) : Arc de Triomphe (46km) : Saint Cloud Parc (47km) :
3. Religious monuments: Abbaye du Lys (Dammarie-les-Lys) (4km) : Eglises de Saint Eustache (Paris) (39km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Etampes) (39km) : Eglise de Saint Basile (Etampes) (39km) : Eglises de Saint Loup (Saint-Loup-de-Naud) (40km) : Maison d'Ourscamp (Paris) (41km) : Collegiale de Saint Martin (Etampes) (41km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) (42km) : Cathédrale de Notre Dame (Paris) (43km) : Sainte Chapelle (Paris) (43km) :
4. Town / village in bloom 4*: Le Mee-sur-Seine (2km) : Creteil (30km) : Maisons-Alfort (33km) : Gagny (39km) : Le Plessis-Robinson (40km) : Meudon (43km) : Livry-Gargan (43km) : Velizy-Villacoublay (44km) : Aulnay-sous-Bois (45km) : Levallois-Perret (48km) :
5. Heritage Sites: Fontainebleau Palace (16km) : Seine Banks, Paris (42km) : Provins (47km) : Versailles Palace (48km) :
6. Towns of Art and History: Noisiel (35km) : Etampes (38km) :
7. Recommended Detour Town: Moret-sur-Loing (22km) :

Map of places to visit near Melun & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Melun

Canton: Melun

Arrondissement: Melun

Department: Seine-et-Marne

Region: Paris

Postcode: 77000

Distance to Melun

from Melun: 0 km

from Paris: 42 km

from Calais: 274 km

from Nice: 645 km

from Bordeaux: 480 km

from Strasbourg: 374 km

* distances are direct not by road!

Place with full review on France This Way Other attractions & sights of interest

More information

We have 18 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Melun): Boissettes, Boissise-la-Bertrand, Cesson, Crisenoy, Dammarie-les-Lys, La Rochette, Le Mee-sur-Seine, Livry-sur-Seine, Maincy, Moisenay, Montereau-sur-le-Jard, Rubelles, Saint-Germain-Laxis, Savigny-le-Temple, Vaux-le-Penil, Vert-Saint-Denis, Villiers-en-Biere and Voisenon.

Getting here

For driving distances to Melun from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Melun