Paray-le-Monial travel guide

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Visit Paray-le-Monial: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Paray-le-Monial is situated in the Saone-et-Loire department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 57 km from Macon, the department capital. (General information: Paray-le-Monial is 298 km from Paris and 527 km from the port at Calais).

For a detailed travel guide see Paray-le-Monial (page also includes a photo gallery for Paray-le-Monial)

Popular places to visit near Paray-le-Monial: these include Anzy-le-Duc at 15 km and Semur-en-Brionnais at 21 km.

Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) is a listed 'religious monument' at 12km and Jardin du château de Digoine is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 13km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

Tourist classifications for Paray-le-Monial: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 4*;

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Selected places to visit and attractions near Paray-le-Monial, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Paray-le-Monial

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See France This Way travel guides for Saone-et-Loire and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Paray-le-Monial.

Note that all distances from Paray-le-Monial shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.

Paray-le-Monial holidays and travel

If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Paray-le-Monial (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 Saone-et-Loire 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 Paray-le-Monial and wondering what to do next!

  1. 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du château de Digoine (13km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (13km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (15km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (22km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (30km) :
  2. Beautiful Villages: Semur-en-Brionnais (21km) :
  3. Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) (12km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (13km) : Eglise de Saint Nizier (Baron) (13km) : Prieuré d'Anzy-le-Duc (Anzy-le-Duc) (15km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (16km) : Prieuré church de Saint Pierre et Saint Benoit (Perrecy-les-Forges) (19km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (21km) : Eglise de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Neuilly-en-Donjon) (21km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (27km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (33km) :
  4. Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (33km) : Lapalisse (43km) :
  5. Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (49km) :

Map of places to visit near Paray-le-Monial & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Paray-le-Monial

Canton: Paray-le-Monial

Arrondissement: Charolles

Department: Saone-et-Loire

Region: Burgundy

Postcode: 71600

Distance to Paray-le-Monial

from Macon: 57 km

from Paris: 298 km

from Calais: 527 km

from Nice: 393 km

from Bordeaux: 407 km

from Strasbourg: 361 km

* distances are direct not by road!

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

More information

We have 4 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Paray-le-Monial): Hautefond, Saint-Leger-les-Paray, Vitry-en-Charollais and Volesvres.

Getting here

Saone-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car or drive from a channel ferry port - allow about 6 - 7 hours. For driving distances to Paray-le-Monial from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Paray-le-Monial