Saint-Marcel travel guide
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Visit Saint-Marcel: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Saint-Marcel is situated in the Ain department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the east of France at 34 km from Bourg-en-Bresse, the department capital. (General information: Saint-Marcel is 379 km from Paris and 602 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Dombes at 6 km from Saint-Marcel
Popular places to visit near Saint-Marcel: these include Dombes at 6 km and Perouges at 16 km.
Trevoux is a listed 'recommended detour' at 16km and Perouges is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 16km. 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 Saint-Marcel, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Saint-Marcel
See France This Way travel guides for Ain and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Saint-Marcel.
Note that all distances from Saint-Marcel shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Saint-Marcel holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Saint-Marcel (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 Rhone-Alpes and Ain 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 Saint-Marcel and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc de la Tête d'Or (21km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (23km) : Parc de Gerland (24km) : Parc du château de Laye (24km) :
- National Monuments: Brou Royal Monastery (34km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Perouges (16km) : Oingt (31km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon) (24km) : Abbaye Saint Martin d'Ainey (Lyon) (25km) : Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (42km) : Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (49km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (19km) : Ecully (25km) : Saint-Vulbas (27km) : Vonnas (30km) : Chaponnay (36km) : Macon (41km) : Morestel (49km) :
- Heritage Sites: Historic Lyon (24km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Vienne (48km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (16km) : Cremieu (32km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (44km) :
Map of places to visit near Saint-Marcel & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Saint-Marcel
Canton: Villars-les-Dombes
Arrondissement: Bourg-en-Bresse
Department: Ain
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 01390
Distance to Saint-Marcel
from Bourg-en-Bresse: 34 km
from Paris: 379 km
from Calais: 602 km
from Nice: 308 km
from Bordeaux: 451 km
from Strasbourg: 360 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Saint-Marcel): Birieux, Dombes, Lapeyrouse, Monthieux, Saint-Andre-de-Corcy and Sainte-Croix.
Getting here
For driving distances to Saint-Marcel from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Saint-Marcel