Soyaux travel guide
Visit Soyaux: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Angouleme at 5 km from Soyaux
Location: Soyaux is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 3 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Soyaux is 393 km from Paris and 603 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Soyaux: these include Angouleme at 5 km and Torsac at 8 km. Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) is a listed religious monument at 3 km and Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) is a listed religious monument at 4 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 Soyaux, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Soyaux
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Soyaux.
Note that all distances from Soyaux shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Soyaux 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 Soyaux
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (5km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (5km)
- La Couronne: market every Saturday (9km)
- La Rochefoucauld: market every Wednesday & Saturday (18km)
- Mareuil: market every Tuesday (29km)
- Jarnac: market every every day except Monday (29km)
- Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire: market every Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (34km)
- Piegut-Pluviers: market every Wednesday (38km)
- Brantome: market every Monday - seasonal market only - (47km)
- Brantome: market every Friday (47km)
- Matha: market every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday (47km)
- Lisle: market every Tuesday (48km)
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 Soyaux and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Soyaux map below.
Recommended Detour Nontron (38km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (3km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (4km); Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (7km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (8km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (11km); Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (13km); Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (13km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (16km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (16km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (20km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (35km); Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (36km); Abbaye Saint Pierre (Brantome) (46km); Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (49km)
Remarkable Garden Logis de Forge (11km); Jardin du Chaigne (29km); Jardin monastique médiéval (34km)
Town Of Art And History Angouleme (5km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (5km)
Map of places to visit near Soyaux & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Soyaux
Canton: Soyaux
Arrondissement: Angoulême
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16800
Distance to Soyaux
from Angouleme (local prefecture): 3 km
from Paris: 393 km
from Calais: 603 km
from Nice: 599 km
from Bordeaux: 108 km
from Strasbourg: 658 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 9 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Soyaux): Angouleme, Dirac, Garat, Gond-Pontouvre, Magnac-sur-Touvre, Mornac, Puymoyen, Ruelle-sur-Touvre and Touvre.
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 Soyaux from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Soyaux