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Saint-Julien travel guide

Visit Saint-Julien: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Saint-Julien is situated in the Rhone department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 32 km from Lyon, the department capital. (General information: Saint-Julien is 359 km from Paris and 585 km from the port at Calais).

Note: The photo above was taken in Theize at 10 km from Saint-Julien

Popular places to visit near Saint-Julien: these include Theize at 10 km and Oingt at 10 km.

Parc du château de Laye is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 7km and Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 9km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

Tourist classifications for Saint-Julien: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 1*;

Photos taken within 10 km

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Selected places to visit and attractions near Saint-Julien, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Saint-Julien

See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Saint-Julien.

Note that all distances from Saint-Julien shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.

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 Saint-Julien and wondering what to do next!

1. 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Laye (7km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (9km) : Parc de la Tête d'Or (31km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (32km) : Parc de Gerland (33km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (41km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (48km) :
2. National Monuments: Brou Royal Monastery (49km) :
3. Beautiful Villages: Oingt (10km) : Perouges (43km) :
4. Religious monuments: Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon) (33km) : Abbaye Saint Martin d'Ainey (Lyon) (33km) : Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (36km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (40km) : Eglise de Saint Blaise (Mazille) (41km) : Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (43km) : Eglise de Jalogny (Jalogny) (44km) : Abbaye de Cluny (Cluny) (45km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (47km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (48km) :
5. Town / village in bloom 4*: Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (26km) : Ecully (30km) : Macon (33km) : Vonnas (34km) : Chaponnay (49km) :
6. Heritage Sites: Historic Lyon (33km) :
7. Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (13km) : Charlieu (40km) : Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (46km) :
8. Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (31km) :

Map of places to visit near Saint-Julien & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Saint-Julien

Canton: Gleizé

Arrondissement: Villefranche-sur-Saône

Department: Rhone

Region: Rhone-Alpes

Postcode: 69640

Distance to Saint-Julien

from Lyon: 32 km

from Paris: 359 km

from Calais: 585 km

from Nice: 331 km

from Bordeaux: 429 km

from Strasbourg: 368 km

* distances are direct not by road!

Place with full review on France This Way Other attractions & sights of interest

More information

We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Saint-Julien): Arnas, Blace, Cogny, Denice, Gleize, Lacenas, Le Perreon, Limas, Montmelas-Saint-Sorlin, Rivolet, Saint-Etienne-Des-Oullieres, Saint-Etienne-la-Varenne, Saint-Georges-de-Reneins, Vaux-en-Beaujolais and Villefranche-sur-Saone.

Getting here

For driving distances to Saint-Julien from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Saint-Julien