Sainte-Foy travel guide
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Visit Sainte-Foy: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Sainte-Foy is situated in the Saone-et-Loire department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 54 km from Macon, the department capital. (General information: Sainte-Foy is 316 km from Paris and 546 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Semur-en-Brionnais at 3 km from Sainte-Foy
Popular places to visit near Sainte-Foy: these include Semur-en-Brionnais at 3 km and Anzy-le-Duc at 7 km.
Semur-en-Brionnais is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 3km and Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) is a listed 'religious monument' at 3km. 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 Sainte-Foy, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Sainte-Foy
See France This Way travel guides for Saone-et-Loire and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Sainte-Foy.
Note that all distances from Sainte-Foy shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Sainte-Foy holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Sainte-Foy (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 France and Saone-et-Loire 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 Sainte-Foy and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (7km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (7km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (15km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (19km) : Jardin du château de Digoine (31km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Semur-en-Brionnais (3km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (3km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (7km) : Prieuré d'Anzy-le-Duc (Anzy-le-Duc) (7km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (9km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) (10km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (13km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (14km) : Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (14km) : Basilique du Sacré-Cœur (Paray-le-Monial) (19km) : Eglise de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Neuilly-en-Donjon) (20km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Paray-le-Monial (19km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (14km) : Lapalisse (38km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (46km) :
Map of places to visit near Sainte-Foy & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sainte-Foy
Canton: Semur-en-Brionnais
Arrondissement: Charolles
Department: Saone-et-Loire
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 71110
Distance to Sainte-Foy
from Macon: 54 km
from Paris: 316 km
from Calais: 546 km
from Nice: 378 km
from Bordeaux: 400 km
from Strasbourg: 374 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Sainte-Foy): Anzy-le-Duc, Briant, Ligny-en-Brionnais, Oye, Saint-Julien-de-Civry, Sarry and Semur-en-Brionnais.
Getting here
Saone-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car or drive from a channel ferry port - allow about 6 - 7 hours. For driving distances to Sainte-Foy from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Sainte-Foy