Mervent travel guide
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Visit Mervent: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Mervent is situated in the Vendee department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the west of France at 54 km from La Roche-sur-Yon, the department capital. (General information: Mervent is 348 km from Paris and 528 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Vouvant at 6 km from Mervent
Popular places to visit near Mervent: these include Vouvant at 6 km and Fontenay-le-Comte at 7 km.
Vouvant is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 6km and Eglise de Notre-Dame (Vouvant) is a listed 'religious monument' at 6km. 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 Mervent, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Mervent
See France This Way travel guides for Vendee and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Mervent.
Note that all distances from Mervent shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Mervent holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Mervent (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 Vendee 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 Mervent and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du Bâtiment (20km) : Jardins de Chaligny (30km) : La Guyonnière (40km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Vouvant (6km) : Coulon (25km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Notre-Dame (Vouvant) (6km) : Abbaye Royale (Nieul-sur-l'Autise) (12km) : Abbaye Saint Pierre et Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Maillezais) (17km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame de l'Assomption (Maille) (20km) : Eglise de Saint-Eulalie (Benet) (21km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Marans (30km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Parthenay (41km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Fontenay-le-Comte (7km) :
- Grand Site of France: Marais Poitevin (22km) :
Map of places to visit near Mervent & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Mervent
Canton: Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges
Arrondissement: Fontenay-le-Comte
Department: Vendee
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 85200
Distance to Mervent
from La Roche-sur-Yon: 54 km
from Paris: 348 km
from Calais: 528 km
from Nice: 703 km
from Bordeaux: 188 km
from Strasbourg: 678 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Mervent): Bourneau, Foussais-Payre, Pissotte, Saint-Michel-le-Cloucq and Vouvant.
Getting here
Vendee is in the west of France. Most visitors arrive by car from a cross-channel ferry port - Saint Malo is convenient at around 3 hours drive. For driving distances to Mervent from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Mervent