Surgeres travel guide
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Visit Surgeres: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Surgeres is situated in the Charente-Maritime department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 32 km from La Rochelle, the department capital. (General information: Surgeres is 384 km from Paris and 572 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Surgeres (page also includes a photo gallery for Surgeres)
Popular places to visit near Surgeres: these include Surgeres at 1 km and Marais Poitevin at 24 km.
Baie de l'Aiguillon is a listed 'site of natural beauty' at 22km and Rochefort is a listed 'town of art and history' at 25km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Surgeres, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Surgeres
See France This Way travel guides for Charente-Maritime and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Surgeres.
Note that all distances from Surgeres shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Surgeres holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Surgeres (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente-Maritime 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 Surgeres and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': La Roche Courbon (32km) : Jardins de la Boirie (47km) : Arboretum du chemin de la découverte (48km) : Jardins du phare de Chassiron (49km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Coulon (27km) : La Flotte-en-Re (45km) : Mornac-sur-Seudre (49km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Notre-Dame de l'Assomption (Maille) (26km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Dampierre-sur-Boutonne) (26km) : Eglise de Saint-Savinien (Fenioux) (27km) : Abbaye Saint Pierre et Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Maillezais) (29km) : Eglise de Saint-Eulalie (Benet) (31km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Aulnay) (32km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Varaize) (32km) : Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (36km) : Abbaye Royale (Nieul-sur-l'Autise) (36km) : Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes (Saintes) (41km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Marans (29km) : Saintes (42km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Rochefort (25km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Fontenay-le-Comte (40km) :
- Grand Site of France: Marais Poitevin (26km) : Brouage Fortifications (38km) :
Map of places to visit near Surgeres & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Surgères
Canton: Surgères
Arrondissement: Rochefort
Department: Charente-Maritime
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 17700
Distance to Surgeres
from La Rochelle: 32 km
from Paris: 384 km
from Calais: 572 km
from Nice: 685 km
from Bordeaux: 142 km
from Strasbourg: 697 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 Surgeres): Pere, Puyravault, Saint-Georges-du-Bois, Saint-Germain-de-Marencennes, Saint-Mard, Vandre and Vouhe.
Getting here
Charente-Maritime is in the west of France. Most visitors will arrive by car typically from a channel ferry ports such as Saint Malo, Caen or Cherbourg, a drive af about 4-5 hours. For driving distances to Surgeres from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Surgeres