Ruelle-sur-Touvre travel guide
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Visit Ruelle-sur-Touvre: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Ruelle-sur-Touvre is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 7 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Ruelle-sur-Touvre is 388 km from Paris and 598 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Angouleme at 6 km from Ruelle-sur-Touvre
Popular places to visit near Ruelle-sur-Touvre: these include Angouleme at 6 km and Torsac at 13 km.
Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) is a listed 'religious monument' at 6km and Angouleme is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 7km. 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 Ruelle-sur-Touvre, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Ruelle-sur-Touvre
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Ruelle-sur-Touvre.
Note that all distances from Ruelle-sur-Touvre shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Ruelle-sur-Touvre holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Ruelle-sur-Touvre (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente 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 Ruelle-sur-Touvre and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Logis de Forge (16km) : Jardin monastique médiéval (31km) : Jardin du Chaigne (32km) : Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (40km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (45km) :
- Religious monuments: Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (6km) : Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (8km) : Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (10km) : Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (12km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (13km) : Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (16km) : Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (17km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (20km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (37km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (37km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Angouleme (7km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Nontron (38km) :
Map of places to visit near Ruelle-sur-Touvre & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Ruelle-sur-Touvre
Canton: Ruelle-sur-Touvre
Arrondissement: Angoulême
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16600
Distance to Ruelle-sur-Touvre
from Angouleme: 7 km
from Paris: 388 km
from Calais: 598 km
from Nice: 599 km
from Bordeaux: 112 km
from Strasbourg: 654 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 9 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Ruelle-sur-Touvre): Angouleme, Balzac, Champniers, Garat, Gond-Pontouvre, Magnac-sur-Touvre, Mornac, Soyaux and Touvre.
Getting here
Charente is in the west of France. Most visitors to the region come by car with arrive here by car with the ferry ports at Saint Malo taking about 5 hours driving time. For driving distances to Ruelle-sur-Touvre from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Ruelle-sur-Touvre