Sainte-Opportune travel guide
Visit Sainte-Opportune: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Bagnoles de l'Orne at 21 km from Sainte-Opportune
Location: Sainte-Opportune is situated in the Orne department (Normandy region) in the north of France at 51 km from Alencon, the department capital. (General information: Sainte-Opportune is 203 km from Paris and 294 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Sainte-Opportune: these include Bagnoles de l'Orne at 21 km and Falaise at 23 km. Domfront is a listed recommended detour at 24 km and Carrouges Chateau is a listed national monument at 28 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 Sainte-Opportune, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Sainte-Opportune
See France This Way travel guides for Orne and Normandy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Sainte-Opportune.
Note that all distances from Sainte-Opportune shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Sainte-Opportune 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 Normandy and Orne gites and villas
Markets near Sainte-Opportune
- Briouze: market every Monday (6km)
- Flers: market every Wednesday & Saturday (11km)
- Conde-sur-Noireau: market every Thursday (15km)
- La Ferte-Mace: market every Thursday (18km)
- Bagnoles-de-l'Orne: market every Wednesday & Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (21km)
- Falaise: market every Saturday (24km)
- Thury-Harcourt: market every Tuesday (27km)
- Argentan: market every Tuesday & Friday (29km)
- Trun: market every Thursday (35km)
- Aunay-sur-Odon: market every Saturday (35km)
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-Opportune and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Sainte-Opportune map below.
National Monument Carrouges Chateau (28km)
Recommended Detour Domfront (24km); Argentan (29km)
Regional Natural Parc Normandie-Maine (32km)
Remarkable Garden Sassy (32km); Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (37km)
Village D'etape Villers-Bocage (41km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saint-Fraimbault (35km); Saint-Loup-du-Gast (42km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Parc zoologique de Jurques (38km)
Map of places to visit near Sainte-Opportune & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sainte-Opportune
Canton: Briouze
Arrondissement: Argentan
Department: Orne
Region: Normandy
Postcode: 61100
Distance to Sainte-Opportune
from Alencon (local prefecture): 51 km
from Paris: 203 km
from Calais: 294 km
from Nice: 814 km
from Bordeaux: 434 km
from Strasbourg: 600 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Sainte-Opportune): Bellou-en-Houlme, Briouze, Chenedouit, Cramenil, Durcet, Echalou, La Carneille, Landigou, Les Tourailles, Notre-Dame-du-Rocher, Pointel, Ronfeugerai and Sainte-Honorine-la-Guillaume.
Getting here
Orne is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-challen ferry ports with Caen being especially close, typically within an hours drive. For driving distances to Sainte-Opportune from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Sainte-Opportune