Oradour-Fanais travel guide
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Visit Oradour-Fanais: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Oradour-Fanais is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 72 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Oradour-Fanais is 326 km from Paris and 543 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint-Germain-de-Confolens at 10 km from Oradour-Fanais
Popular places to visit near Oradour-Fanais: these include Saint-Germain-de-Confolens at 10 km and Confolens at 14 km.
Abbatiale de Saint Pierre (Lesterps) is a listed 'religious monument' at 12km and Confolens is a listed 'town of art and history' at 14km. 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 Oradour-Fanais, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Oradour-Fanais
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Oradour-Fanais.
Note that all distances from Oradour-Fanais shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Oradour-Fanais holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Oradour-Fanais (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente 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 Oradour-Fanais and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (40km) : Jardin de Liliane (41km) :
- National Monuments: Abbey Saint-Sauveur de Charroux (29km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbatiale de Saint Pierre (Lesterps) (12km) : Abbaye de la Réau (Saint-Martin-l'Ars) (20km) : Eglise d'Usson de Poitou (Usson-du-Poitou) (26km) : Abbaye de Saint-Amand (Saint-Junien) (27km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chatain) (27km) : Abbaye Bénédictine (Charroux) (29km) : Eglise de Genouillé (Genouille) (34km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame (Montmorillon) (35km) : Eglise de Saint Gervais et Saint Protais (Civaux) (37km) : Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Civray) (37km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Limoges (47km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Confolens (14km) : Montmorillon (35km) :
Map of places to visit near Oradour-Fanais & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Oradour-Fanais
Canton: Confolens-Sud
Arrondissement: Confolens
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16500
Distance to Oradour-Fanais
from Angouleme: 72 km
from Paris: 326 km
from Calais: 543 km
from Nice: 577 km
from Bordeaux: 178 km
from Strasbourg: 592 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 Oradour-Fanais): Abzac, Asnieres-sur-Blour, Gajoubert, Saint-Barbant and Saint-Martial-sur-Isop.
Getting here
Charente is in the west of France. Most visitors to the region come by car with arrive here by car with the ferry ports at Saint Malo taking about 5 hours driving time. For driving distances to Oradour-Fanais from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Oradour-Fanais