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Salon travel guide

Visit Salon: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Salon is situated in the Dordogne department (Aquitaine region) in the south-west of France at 19 km from Perigueux, the department capital. (General information: Salon is 443 km from Paris and 664 km from the port at Calais).

Note: The photo above was taken in Le Bugue at 16 km from Salon

Popular places to visit near Salon: these include Le Bugue at 16 km and Limeuil at 17 km.

Abbaye de Saint Martial (Paunat) is a listed 'religious monument' at 14km and Limeuil is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 17km. 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 Salon, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Salon

See France This Way travel guides for Dordogne and Aquitaine (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Salon.

Note that all distances from Salon shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.

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 Salon and wondering what to do next!

1. 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin de Planbuisson (22km) : Jardins du château de Montréal (25km) : Jardins de la Bourlie (27km) : Jardins du château de Losse (28km) : Jardin de Conty (32km) : Jardins de Marqueyssac (38km) : Jardins du château de Hautefort (40km) : Jardins de l'Albarède (40km) : Jardins du château de Caudon (42km) : Jardins de l'Imaginaire (43km) :
2. National Monuments: Abri of Laugerie-Haute (21km) : Decorated caves of the Vezere Valley (21km) : Abri de Cap Blanc (21km) : Font-de-Gaume (22km) : Chateau de Puyguilhem (44km) :
3. Beautiful Villages: Limeuil (17km) : Saint-Leon-sur-Vezere (25km) : Belves (33km) : Beynac (35km) : Saint-Amand-de-Coly (38km) : Monpazier (39km) : La Roque-Gageac (39km) : Domme (42km) : Saint-Jean-de-Cole (45km) :
4. Religious monuments: Abbaye de Saint Martial (Paunat) (14km) : Eglise de Saint-Hilaire et Eglise de Saint-Nicholas (Tremolat) (17km) : Eglise Saint Etienne de la Cité (Perigueux) (19km) : Cathédrale Saint Front (Perigueux) (19km) : Eglise de saint-Pierre (Audrix) (21km) : Abbaye de Cadouin (Le Buisson-de-Cadouin) (22km) : Abbaye Notre Dame (Chancelade) (22km) : Ancien Prieuré de Merlande (La Chapelle-Gonaguet) (23km) : Eglise de Saint Léonce (Saint-Leon-sur-Vezere) (25km) : Eglise Sainte-Croix (Beaumont-du-Perigord) (31km) :
5. Town / village in bloom 4*: Perigueux (19km) : Bergerac (30km) :
6. Heritage Sites: Vezere Valley (32km) :
7. Towns of Art and History: Sarlat (38km) :

Map of places to visit near Salon & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Salon

Canton: Vergt

Arrondissement: Périgueux

Department: Dordogne

Region: Aquitaine

Postcode: 24380

Distance to Salon

from Perigueux: 19 km

from Paris: 443 km

from Calais: 664 km

from Nice: 537 km

from Bordeaux: 108 km

from Strasbourg: 662 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 Salon): Breuilh, Cendrieux, Lacropte, Saint-Amand-de-Vergt, Saint-Michel-de-Villadeix, Vergt and Veyrines-de-Vergt.

Getting here

Dordogne is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into the airports at either Bergerac (or Bordeaux). Alternatively to drive from the cross-channel ports takes around 9-11 hours. For driving distances to Salon from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Salon