Payre travel guide
Visit Payre: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Nouaille-Maupertuis at 24 km from Payre
Location: Payre is situated in the Vienne department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 28 km from Poitiers, the department capital. (General information: Payre is 322 km from Paris and 526 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Payre: these include Nouaille-Maupertuis at 24 km and Poitiers at 28 km. Vivonne is a listed village d'etape at 10 km and Valle des singes (monkeys) is a listed zoo or wildlife park at 12 km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
Selected places to visit and attractions near Payre, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to PayreSee France This Way travel guides for Vienne and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Payre.
Note that all distances from Payre shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Payre holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see our hotel search (from a leading hotel agent 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 Vienne gites and villas
Markets near Payre
- Vivonne: market every Saturday (10km)
- Chaunay: market every Monday (15km)
- Rouille: market every Friday (16km)
- Lezay: market every Tuesday (19km)
- Civray: market every Tuesday & Friday (22km)
- Sauze-Vaussais: market every Thursday (24km)
- La Mothe-Saint-Heray: market every Thursday (25km)
- Poitiers: market every Wednesday & Thursday & Sunday & Saturday all day & Friday (28km)
- Melle: market every Friday (30km)
- Vouille: market every Saturday (33km)
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 Payre and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Payre map below.
Heritage Site Poitiers glise Saint-Hilaire le Grand (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (28km); Melle glise St Hilaire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (31km)
National Monument Sanxay (24km); Abbey Saint-Sauveur de Charroux (26km)
Recommended Detour Chauvigny (42km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Notre-Dame (Lusignan) (13km); Eglise de Saint Maurice (Saint-Maurice-la-Clouere) (16km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Saint-Pierre-d'Exideuil) (22km); Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Civray) (22km); Abbaye de Nouaill-Mauperthuis (Nouaille-Maupertuis) (24km); Eglise d'Usson de Poitou (Usson-du-Poitou) (25km); Abbaye Bndictine (Charroux) (27km); Eglise de Genouill (Genouille) (28km); Abbaye de la Rau (Saint-Martin-l'Ars) (31km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chatain) (34km); Eglise de Saint Andr (Ruffec) (35km); Eglise de Saint Gervais et Saint Protais (Civaux) (37km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chauvigny) (42km); Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (53km)
Remarkable Garden Laverr (15km); Arboretum du chemin de la dcouverte (30km); Parc et jardin de lAbrgement (35km); Jardin du chteau de La Mothe (39km); Touffou (42km); La Guyonnire (43km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Poitiers (28km); Parthenay (49km); Chatillon-sur-Thouet (50km)
Theme Park Futuroscope (38km)
Town Of Art And History Poitiers (28km); Parthenay (49km); Confolens (51km)
Village D'etape Vivonne (10km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Valle des singes (monkeys) (12km)
Map of places to visit near Payre & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Payr
Canton: Couh
Arrondissement: Montmorillon
Department: Vienne
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 86700
Distance to Payre
from Poitiers (local prefecture): 28 km
from Paris: 322 km
from Calais: 526 km
from Nice: 627 km
from Bordeaux: 178 km
from Strasbourg: 619 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Payre): Anche, Ceaux-en-Couhe, Chatillon, Couhe, Vaux and Voulon.
Getting here
Vienne is in the west of France. Most visitors arrive here by car - the ferry ports such as Caen, Saint Malo and Cherbourg are convenient at around 4-5 hours drive. For driving distances to Payre from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Payre