Suris travel guide
Visit Suris: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Rochechouart at 15 km from Suris
Location: Suris is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 43 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Suris is 358 km from Paris and 574 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Suris: these include Rochechouart at 15 km and Confolens at 19 km. Confolens is a listed town of art and history at 19 km and Abbaye de Saint-Amand (Saint-Junien) is a listed religious monument at 21 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 Suris, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Suris
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Suris.
Note that all distances from Suris shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Suris 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 Suris
- Saint-Junien: market every Saturday (21km)
- La Rochefoucauld: market every Wednesday & Saturday (23km)
- Piegut-Pluviers: market every Wednesday (25km)
- Chalus: market every Friday (34km)
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (37km)
- Ruffec: market every Wednesday & Saturday (39km)
- Civray: market every Tuesday & Friday (43km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (44km)
- Chaunay: market every Monday (54km)
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 Suris and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Suris map below.
National Monument Abbey Saint-Sauveur de Charroux (38km)
Recommended Detour Nontron (36km)
Regional Natural Parc Perigord-Limousin (30km)
Religious Monument Abbaye de Saint-Amand (Saint-Junien) (21km); Abbatiale de Saint Pierre (Lesterps) (21km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (28km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chatain) (30km); Eglise de Genouillé (Genouille) (37km); Abbaye Bénédictine (Charroux) (37km); Eglise de Saint André (Ruffec) (39km); Abbaye de la Réau (Saint-Martin-l'Ars) (39km); Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Civray) (42km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (44km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Saint-Pierre-d'Exideuil) (44km); Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (44km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin de Liliane (26km); Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (35km); Logis de Forge (51km)
Town Of Art And History Confolens (19km); Angouleme (43km)
Village D'etape Bellac (44km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (44km)
Map of places to visit near Suris & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Suris
Canton: Chabanais
Arrondissement: Confolens
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16270
Distance to Suris
from Angouleme (local prefecture): 43 km
from Paris: 358 km
from Calais: 574 km
from Nice: 575 km
from Bordeaux: 147 km
from Strasbourg: 617 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Suris): Exideuil, Genouillac, La Peruse, Mazieres, Mouzon, Roumazieres-Loubert and Saint-Quentin-sur-Charente.
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 Suris from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Suris