Piace travel guide
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Visit Piace: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Piace is situated in the Sarthe department (Pays-de-la-Loire region) in the north-west of France at 31 km from Le Mans, the department capital. (General information: Piace is 177 km from Paris and 324 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei at 18 km from Piace
Popular places to visit near Piace: these include Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei at 18 km and Alencon at 19 km.
Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 18km and Coulaines is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 27km. 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 Piace, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Piace
See France This Way travel guides for and Pays-de-la-Loire (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Piace.
Note that all distances from Piace shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Piace holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Piace (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 Sarthe 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 Piace and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du Mirail (33km) : Jardin du château de Vilaines (35km) : Jardins de la Massonnière (37km) : Sassy (46km) : Jardin d’atmosphère du Petit Bordeaux (49km) :
- National Monuments: Carrouges Chateau (39km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Saint-Ceneri-le-Gerei (18km) :
- Religious monuments: Cathédrale Saint Julien (Le Mans) (28km) : Abbaye de l'Epau (Yvre-l'Eveque) (30km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Coulaines (27km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Le Mans (29km) : Sainte-Suzanne (39km) : Evron (40km) : Jublains (45km) : Saulges (49km) :
Map of places to visit near Piace & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Piacé
Canton: Beaumont-sur-Sarthe
Arrondissement: Mamers
Department: Sarthe
Region: Pays-de-la-Loire
Postcode: 72170
Distance to Piace
from Le Mans: 31 km
from Paris: 177 km
from Calais: 324 km
from Nice: 749 km
from Bordeaux: 384 km
from Strasbourg: 564 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 11 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Piace): Beaumont-sur-Sarthe, Cherance, Coulombiers, Doucelles, Grandchamp, Juille, Maresche, Saint-Christophe-du-Jambet, Saint-Germain-sur-Sarthe, Saint-Ouen-de-Mimbre and Vivoin.
Getting here
Sarthe is in the north-west of France. Most visitors get here by car having taken a ferry, probably to Saint-Malo or Caen, and then a drive of around 2 - 3 hours. For driving distances to Piace from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Piace