Sedan travel guide
Visit Sedan: Highlights and Tourist Information
IMPORTANT: this is a summary of local highlights. For detailed visitor information see Sedan travel guide
Location: Sedan is situated in the Ardennes department (Champagne-Ardenne region) in the north-east of France at 19 km from Charleville-Mézières, the department capital. (General information: Sedan is 210 km from Paris and 260 km from the port at Calais).
Tourist classifications for Sedan: Town of Art and history; Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé) (see also historical French towns);
Market days in Sedan: weekly market: Wednesday & Saturday; (markets take place in the morning unless indicated)
Popular places to visit near Sedan: these include Charleville-Mezières at 19 km and Montherme at 26 km. Charleville-Mezieres is a listed secteur sauvegarde at 19 km and Lac de Bairon is a listed site of natural beauty at 23 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 Sedan, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Sedan
See France This Way travel guides for and Champagne-Ardenne (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Sedan.
Note that all distances from Sedan shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Sedan 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 France and Ardennes gites and villas
Markets near Sedan
- Sedan: market every Wednesday & Saturday (0km)
- Vrigne-Aux-Bois: market every Sunday (8km)
- Charleville-Mezieres: market every Tuesday all day & Thursday all day & Sunday & Saturday all day (19km)
- Stenay: market every Friday (29km)
- Revin: market every Tuesday (35km)
- Fumay: market every Wednesday (37km)
- Vouziers: market every Saturday (38km)
- Rocroi: market every Tuesday (39km)
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 Sedan and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Sedan map below.
Secteur Sauvegarde Charleville-Mezieres (19km)
Site Of Natural Beauty Lac de Bairon (23km)
Village D'etape Launois-sur-Vence (30km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Semide (48km)
Map of places to visit near Sedan & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Sedan
Canton: Sedan
Arrondissement: Sedan
Department: Ardennes
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Postcode: 8200
Distance to Sedan
from Charleville-Mézières (local prefecture): 19 km
from Paris: 210 km
from Calais: 260 km
from Nice: 690 km
from Bordeaux: 682 km
from Strasbourg: 238 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 18 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Sedan): Balan, Bazeilles, Cheveuges, Daigny, Donchery, Fleigneux, Floing, Givonne, Glaire, Illy, La Chapelle, La Moncelle, Noyers-Pont-Maugis, Remilly-Aillicourt, Rubecourt-et-Lamecourt, Saint-Menges, Thelonne and Wadelincourt.
Getting here
For driving distances to Sedan from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Sedan