Sauvagnac travel guide
Visit Sauvagnac: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Rochechouart at 16 km from Sauvagnac
Location: Sauvagnac is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 39 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Sauvagnac is 369 km from Paris and 585 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Sauvagnac: these include Rochechouart at 16 km and La Rochefoucauld at 20 km. Perigord-Limousin is a listed regional natural parc at 20 km and Jardin de Liliane is a listed remarkable garden at 24 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 Sauvagnac, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Sauvagnac
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Sauvagnac.
Note that all distances from Sauvagnac shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Sauvagnac 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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente gites and villas
Markets near Sauvagnac
- Piegut-Pluviers: market every Wednesday (14km)
- La Rochefoucauld: market every Wednesday & Saturday (20km)
- Saint-Junien: market every Saturday (25km)
- Chalus: market every Friday (28km)
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (34km)
- Mareuil: market every Tuesday (36km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (40km)
- Thiviers: market every Tuesday - seasonal market only - (42km)
- Thiviers: market every Saturday (42km)
- Ruffec: market every Wednesday & Saturday (47km)
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 Sauvagnac and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Sauvagnac map below.
Most Beautiful Village Saint-Jean-de-Cole (39km)
National Monument Chateau de Puyguilhem (38km)
Recommended Detour Nontron (24km)
Regional Natural Parc Perigord-Limousin (20km)
Religious Monument Abbaye de Saint-Amand (Saint-Junien) (25km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (29km); Abbatiale de Saint Pierre (Lesterps) (31km); Abbaye Cistercienne de Boschaud (Villars) (38km); Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (39km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chatain) (40km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (40km); Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption (Thiviers) (43km); Eglise de Saint André (Ruffec) (46km); Eglise de Genouillé (Genouille) (47km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin de Liliane (24km); Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (43km)
Town Of Art And History Confolens (30km); Angouleme (40km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (40km); Saint-Hilaire-les-Places (41km)
Map of places to visit near Sauvagnac & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sauvagnac
Canton: Montemboeuf
Arrondissement: Confolens
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16310
Distance to Sauvagnac
from Angouleme (local prefecture): 39 km
from Paris: 369 km
from Calais: 585 km
from Nice: 570 km
from Bordeaux: 139 km
from Strasbourg: 622 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Sauvagnac): Le Lindois, Les SalLes Lavauguyon, Maisonnais-sur-Tardoire, Massignac, Roussines and Verneuil.
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 Sauvagnac from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Sauvagnac