Sampans travel guide
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Visit Sampans: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Sampans is situated in the Jura department (Franche-Comte region) in the east of France at 51 km from Lons-le-Saunier, the department capital. (General information: Sampans is 301 km from Paris and 499 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Dole at 5 km from Sampans
Popular places to visit near Sampans: these include Dole at 5 km and Pesmes at 19 km.
Jardin à la Faulx is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 5km and Dole is a listed 'town of art and history' at 5km. 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 Sampans, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Sampans
See France This Way travel guides for and Franche-Comte (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Sampans.
Note that all distances from Sampans shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Sampans holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Sampans (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 Jura 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 Sampans and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin à la Faulx (5km) : Jardin du château du Talmay (25km) : Château d'Arcelot (35km) : Parc de l'Etang (36km) : Jardin des jeux du château d'Arlay (41km) :
- National Monuments: Astronomical clock of Besancon (45km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Chateau-Chalon (43km) : Baume-les-Messieurs (49km) :
- Religious monuments: Hospices de Beaune (Beaune) (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Quetigny (33km) : Dijon (38km) : Beaune (48km) :
- Heritage Sites: Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (27km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Dole (5km) : Arbois (35km) : Salins-les-Bains (38km) : Besancon (45km) :
Map of places to visit near Sampans & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sampans
Canton: Dole-Nord-Est
Arrondissement: Dole
Department: Jura
Region: Franche-Comte
Postcode: 39100
Distance to Sampans
from Lons-le-Saunier: 51 km
from Paris: 301 km
from Calais: 499 km
from Nice: 406 km
from Bordeaux: 531 km
from Strasbourg: 236 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 18 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Sampans): Archelange, Authume, Biarne, Billey, Brevans, Champvans, Chevigny, Damparis, Dole, Flagey-les-Auxonne, Foucherans, Gredisans, Jouhe, Labergement-les-Auxonne, Menotey, Monnieres, Rainans and Villers-Rotin.
Getting here
For driving distances to Sampans from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Sampans