Monsols travel guide
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Visit Monsols: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Monsols is situated in the Rhone department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 56 km from Lyon, the department capital. (General information: Monsols is 335 km from Paris and 561 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Solutre-Pouilly at 18 km from Monsols
Popular places to visit near Monsols: these include Solutre-Pouilly at 18 km and Belleville at 22 km.
Le jardin de Zéphyr is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 12km and Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson is a listed 'grand site of france' at 18km. 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 Monsols, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Monsols
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Monsols.
Note that all distances from Monsols shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Monsols holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Monsols (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 Rhone-Alpes and Rhone 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 Monsols and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Le jardin de Zéphyr (12km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (19km) : Parc du château de Laye (24km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (28km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (30km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (33km) : Jardin du château de Digoine (43km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Oingt (31km) : Semur-en-Brionnais (33km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Blaise (Mazille) (20km) : Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (21km) : Eglise de Jalogny (Jalogny) (24km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (24km) : Abbaye de Cluny (Cluny) (26km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (27km) : Eglise de Saint Denis (Massy) (30km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (30km) : Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (31km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (33km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Macon (26km) : Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (36km) : Vonnas (37km) : Paray-le-Monial (40km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (27km) : Trevoux (37km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (18km) :
Map of places to visit near Monsols & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Monsols
Canton: Monsols
Arrondissement: Villefranche-sur-Saône
Department: Rhone
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 69860
Distance to Monsols
from Lyon: 56 km
from Paris: 335 km
from Calais: 561 km
from Nice: 354 km
from Bordeaux: 425 km
from Strasbourg: 358 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 Monsols): Chenelette, Les Ardillats, Ouroux, Saint-Bonnet-Des-Bruyeres, Saint-Christophe, Saint-Igny-de-Vers and Saint-Mamert.
Getting here
For driving distances to Monsols from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Monsols