Saint-Thurin travel guide
Visit Saint-Thurin: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Livradois-Forez Regional Park at 25 km from Saint-Thurin
Location: Saint-Thurin is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 58 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: Saint-Thurin is 357 km from Paris and 590 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Saint-Thurin: these include Livradois-Forez Regional Park at 25 km and Thiers at 26 km. Thiers is a listed secteur sauvegarde at 26 km and Aulteribe Chateau is a listed national monument at 29 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 Saint-Thurin, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Saint-Thurin
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Saint-Thurin.
Note that all distances from Saint-Thurin shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Saint-Thurin 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 Rhone-Alpes and Loire gites and villas
Markets near Saint-Thurin
- Noiretable: market every Saturday (8km)
- Boen: market every Thursday (13km)
- Saint-Remy-sur-Durolle: market every Sunday (23km)
- Balbigny: market every Monday (24km)
- Thiers: market every Thursday & Saturday (26km)
- Courpiere: market every Tuesday (26km)
- Montbrison: market every Saturday (28km)
- Feurs: market every Tuesday (28km)
- Le Coteau: market every Wednesday (29km)
- Roanne: market every Sunday & Friday (30km)
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-Thurin and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Saint-Thurin map below.
National Monument Aulteribe Chateau (29km)
Recommended Detour Ambert (31km); Saint-Galmier (42km); Charlieu (45km)
Regional Natural Parc Livradois-Forez (35km)
Religious Monument Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (42km); Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (45km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Thiers (26km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Col des Pradeaux (32km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saint-Galmier (43km); Vichy (49km)
Map of places to visit near Saint-Thurin & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Saint-Thurin
Canton: Noirétable
Arrondissement: Montbrison
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42111
Distance to Saint-Thurin
from Saint-Etienne (local prefecture): 58 km
from Paris: 357 km
from Calais: 590 km
from Nice: 356 km
from Bordeaux: 364 km
from Strasbourg: 425 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 9 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Saint-Thurin): Ailleux, Champoly, La Cote-en-Couzan, Saint-Didier-sur-Rochefort, Saint-Jean-la-Vetre, Saint-Julien-la-Vetre, Saint-Laurent-Rochefort, Saint-Martin-la-Sauvete and Saint-Priest-la-Vetre.
Getting here
For driving distances to Saint-Thurin from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Saint-Thurin