Menetou-Salon travel guide
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Visit Menetou-Salon: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Menetou-Salon is situated in the Cher department (Loire Valley region) in the center of France at 18 km from Bourges, the department capital. (General information: Menetou-Salon is 180 km from Paris and 416 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Bourges at 18 km from Menetou-Salon
Popular places to visit near Menetou-Salon: these include Bourges at 18 km and Mehun-sur-Yevre at 23 km.
Cathédrale Saint Etienne (Bourges) is a listed 'religious monument' at 18km and Palace Jacques Coeur is a listed 'national monument' at 18km. 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 Menetou-Salon, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Menetou-Salon
See France This Way travel guides for Cher and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Menetou-Salon.
Note that all distances from Menetou-Salon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Menetou-Salon holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Menetou-Salon (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 Cher 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 Menetou-Salon and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les Prés Fichaux (18km) :
- National Monuments: Palace Jacques Coeur (18km) : Bourges Cathedral (19km) :
- Religious monuments: Cathédrale Saint Etienne (Bourges) (18km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Plaimpied-Givaudins) (26km) : St Aignan de Brinay (Brinay) (28km) : Eglise de Saint André (Jussy-Champagne) (30km) : Collegiale Saint Etienne (Dun-sur-Auron) (39km) : Abbaye de Notre Dame (Charite-sur-Loire) (40km) : Abbatiale Notre Dame (La Charite-sur-Loire) (41km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Blet) (42km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame-du-Pré (Donzy) (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Aubigny-sur-Nere (28km) : Pierrefitte-sur-Sauldre (40km) : Issoudun (49km) : Briare (49km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Bourges (18km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Mehun-sur-Yevre (23km) : Sancerre (28km) :
Map of places to visit near Menetou-Salon & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Menetou-Salon
Canton: Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny
Arrondissement: Bourges
Department: Cher
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 18510
Distance to Menetou-Salon
from Bourges: 18 km
from Paris: 180 km
from Calais: 416 km
from Nice: 541 km
from Bordeaux: 356 km
from Strasbourg: 420 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Menetou-Salon): Acheres, Parassy, Quantilly, Saint-Georges-sur-Moulon, Saint-Martin-d'Auxigny, Saint-Palais, Soulangis and Vignoux-sous-les-Aix.
Getting here
Cher is in the center of France. Most visitors fly into Paris and rent a car or drive from one of the channel ports such as Caen or Le Havre, a drive af about 2-3 hours. For driving distances to Menetou-Salon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Menetou-Salon