Taize travel guide
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Visit Taize: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Taize is situated in the Saone-et-Loire department (Burgundy region) in the eastern-center of France at 26 km from Macon, the department capital. (General information: Taize is 313 km from Paris and 535 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Cormatin at 4 km from Taize
Popular places to visit near Taize: these include Cormatin at 4 km and Cluny at 9 km.
Eglise de Saint Denis (Massy) is a listed 'religious monument' at 6km and Eglise de Saint Martin (Chapaize) is a listed 'religious monument' at 7km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Taize, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Taize
See France This Way travel guides for Saone-et-Loire and Burgundy (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Taize.
Note that all distances from Taize shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Taize holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Taize (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 France and Saone-et-Loire 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 Taize and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin du château de Digoine (35km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (36km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (39km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (43km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (44km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Denis (Massy) (6km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Chapaize) (7km) : Abbaye de Cluny (Cluny) (9km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre de Brancion (Martailly-les-Brancion) (10km) : Eglise de Jalogny (Jalogny) (11km) : Eglise de Saint Blaise (Mazille) (14km) : Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (19km) : Abbatiale eglise de Saint Philibert (Tournus) (19km) : Eglise de Saint Vincent (Mont-Saint-Vincent) (20km) : Notre Dame des Cordeliers (Gourdon) (23km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Macon (26km) : Vonnas (41km) : Paray-le-Monial (43km) : Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (49km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Chalon-sur-Saone (33km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (24km) :
Map of places to visit near Taize & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Taizé
Canton: Saint-Gengoux-le-National
Arrondissement: Mâcon
Department: Saone-et-Loire
Region: Burgundy
Postcode: 71250
Distance to Taize
from Macon: 26 km
from Paris: 313 km
from Calais: 535 km
from Nice: 373 km
from Bordeaux: 449 km
from Strasbourg: 326 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Taize): Ameugny, Blanot, Bonnay, Bray, Chapaize, Chissey-les-Macon, Cormatin, Cortambert, Cortevaix, Flagy, Malay, Massilly and Massy.
Getting here
Saone-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car or drive from a channel ferry port - allow about 6 - 7 hours. For driving distances to Taize from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Taize