Riols travel guide
Visit Riols: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Olargues at 11 km from Riols
Location: Riols is situated in the Herault department (Languedoc-Roussillon region) in the south of France at 88 km from Montpellier, the department capital. (General information: Riols is 596 km from Paris and 831 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Riols: these include Olargues at 11 km and Saint-Chinian at 16 km. Fraisse-sur-Agout is a listed ville fleurie 4* at 11 km and Olargues is a listed most beautiful village at 11 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 Riols, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Riols
See France This Way travel guides for Herault and Languedoc-Roussillon (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Riols.
Note that all distances from Riols shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Riols 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 Languedoc-Roussillon and Herault gites and villas
Markets near Riols
- Saint-Pons-de-Thomieres: market every Wednesday & Sunday (3km)
- Labastide-Rouairoux: market every Thursday (13km)
- Saint-Chinian: market every Thursday & Sunday (15km)
- Olonzac: market every Tuesday (25km)
- Lamalou-les-Bains: market every Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday (25km)
- Capestang: market every Sunday (28km)
- Bedarieux: market every Monday all day (32km)
- Mazamet: market every Tuesday & Sunday & Saturday (34km)
- Lezignan-Corbieres: market every Wednesday (34km)
- Coursan: market every every day except Monday (37km)
- Narbonne: market every Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday & Monday - seasonal market only - (39km)
- Narbonne: market every Sunday (39km)
- Fleury: market every every day (41km)
- Serignan: market every Wednesday & Monday & Friday (47km)
- Carcassonne: market every Tuesday & Thursday & Saturday (48km)
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 Riols and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Riols map below.
Grand Site Of France Carcassonne City (48km)
Heritage Site Carcassonne (48km)
Most Beautiful Village Olargues (11km); Minerve (17km)
National Monument Enserune (34km)
Regional Natural Parc Haut-Languedoc (13km)
Religious Monument Abbaye de Sylvanès (Sylvanes) (39km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Beziers (39km); Narbonne (39km); Carcassonne (48km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Gouffre de Cabrespine (31km)
Town Of Art And History Narbonne (40km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Fraisse-sur-Agout (11km)
Map of places to visit near Riols & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Riols
Canton: Saint-Pons-de-Thomières
Arrondissement: Béziers
Department: Herault
Region: Languedoc-Roussillon
Postcode: 34220
Distance to Riols
from Montpellier (local prefecture): 88 km
from Paris: 596 km
from Calais: 831 km
from Nice: 361 km
from Bordeaux: 307 km
from Strasbourg: 682 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Riols): Premian, Saint-Etienne-d'Albagnan and Saint-Pons-de-Thomieres.
Getting here
For driving distances to Riols from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Riols