Sainte-Severe travel guide
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Visit Sainte-Severe: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Sainte-Severe is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 32 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Sainte-Severe is 397 km from Paris and 598 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Cognac at 9 km from Sainte-Severe
Popular places to visit near Sainte-Severe: these include Cognac at 9 km and Jarnac at 9 km.
Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) is a listed 'religious monument' at 6km and Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) is a listed 'religious monument' at 11km. 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 Sainte-Severe, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Sainte-Severe
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Sainte-Severe.
Note that all distances from Sainte-Severe shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Sainte-Severe holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Sainte-Severe (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente 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-Severe and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du Chaigne (23km) : Jardin monastique médiéval (31km) : Logis de Forge (36km) : La Roche Courbon (43km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (6km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (11km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) (14km) : Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (16km) : Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) (16km) : Abbaye de Fontdouce (Saint-Bris-des-Bois) (17km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Varaize) (24km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (26km) : Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (29km) : Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (29km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saintes (30km) : Angouleme (32km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Jonzac (37km) :
Map of places to visit near Sainte-Severe & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sainte-Sévère
Canton: Jarnac
Arrondissement: Cognac
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16200
Distance to Sainte-Severe
from Angouleme: 32 km
from Paris: 397 km
from Calais: 598 km
from Nice: 635 km
from Bordeaux: 105 km
from Strasbourg: 681 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 10 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Sainte-Severe): Boutiers-Saint-Trojan, Breville, Chassors, Courbillac, Houlette, Les Metairies, Macqueville, Nercillac, Neuvicq-le-Chateau and Reparsac.
Getting here
Charente is in the west of France. Most visitors to the region come by car with arrive here by car with the ferry ports at Saint Malo taking about 5 hours driving time. For driving distances to Sainte-Severe from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Sainte-Severe