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Visit Rives: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Rives is situated in the Lot-et-Garonne department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France at 50 km from Agen, the department capital. (General information: Rives is 484 km from Paris and 706 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Rives: these include Villereal at 1 km and Chateau de Biron at 11 km.
Monflanquin is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 13km and Eglise Sainte-Croix (Beaumont-du-Perigord) is a listed 'religious monument' at 13km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Rives, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Rives
See France This Way travel guides for Lot-et-Garonne and Aquitaine (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Rives.
Note that all distances from Rives shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Rives holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Rives (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 Aquitaine and Lot-et-Garonne 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 Rives and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins de la Bourlie (25km) : Jardin de Planbuisson (26km) : Parc et potager de Pouthet (27km) : Jardin de Conty (30km) : Ets Latour-Marliac (34km) : Jardins de l'Albarède (38km) : Jardins de Marqueyssac (39km) : Jardin de la Daille (40km) : Jardins du château de Caudon (41km) : Jardins du château de Montréal (47km) :
- National Monuments: Abri of Laugerie-Haute (39km) : Decorated caves of the Vezere Valley (39km) : Abri de Cap Blanc (39km) : Font-de-Gaume (39km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Monflanquin (13km) : Monpazier (13km) : Belves (25km) : Pujols (29km) : Limeuil (29km) : Beynac (38km) : La Roque-Gageac (40km) : Domme (41km) : Saint-Leon-sur-Vezere (49km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise Sainte-Croix (Beaumont-du-Perigord) (13km) : Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption (Belves) (25km) : Abbaye de Cadouin (Le Buisson-de-Cadouin) (26km) : Eglise de Saint-Hilaire et Eglise de Saint-Nicholas (Tremolat) (27km) : Eglise de Sainte Livrade (Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot) (30km) : Abbaye de Saint Martial (Paunat) (30km) : Eglise de saint-Pierre (Audrix) (31km) : Eglise Notre Dame (Frespech) (38km) : Eglise notre-Dame de Nativité (Cenac-et-Saint-Julien) (40km) : Eglise de Notre-Dame (Lacour) (42km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Bergerac (30km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Sarlat (46km) :
Map of places to visit near Rives & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Rives
Canton: Villeréal
Arrondissement: Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Department: Lot-et-Garonne
Region: Aquitaine
Postcode: 47210
Distance to Rives
from Agen: 50 km
from Paris: 484 km
from Calais: 706 km
from Nice: 531 km
from Bordeaux: 106 km
from Strasbourg: 691 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 12 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Rives): Bournel, Devillac, Doudrac, Mazieres-Naresse, Montaut, Parranquet, Rayet, Saint-Etienne-de-Villereal, Sainte-Radegonde, Sainte-Sabine-Born, Tourliac and Villereal.
Getting here
Lot-et-Garonne is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into the airports at Bordeaux or Bergerac. To drive from the UK allow around 10-11 hours driving time. For driving distances to Rives from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Rives