Tavant travel guide
Visit Tavant: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Chateau du Rivau at 6 km from Tavant
Location: Tavant is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 37 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Tavant is 241 km from Paris and 438 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Tavant: these include Chateau du Rivau at 6 km and Crissay-sur-Manse at 8 km. Les jardins du château du Rivau is a listed remarkable garden at 6 km and Crissay-sur-Manse is a listed most beautiful village at 8 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 Tavant, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Tavant
See France This Way travel guides for Indre-et-Loire and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Tavant.
Note that all distances from Tavant shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Tavant 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 Indre-et-Loire gites and villas
Markets near Tavant
- Chinon: market every Thursday all day & Sunday (12km)
- Richelieu: market every Monday & Friday (13km)
- Azay-le-Rideau: market every Wednesday & Saturday (16km)
- Avoine: market every Friday (18km)
- Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine: market every Friday (18km)
- Artannes-sur-Indre: market every Friday (22km)
- Langeais: market every Sunday (22km)
- Bourgueil: market every Tuesday & Saturday (24km)
- Monts: market every Wednesday & Saturday (26km)
- Loudun: market every Tuesday (26km)
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 Tavant and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Tavant map below.
Aquarium Aquarium de Loudun (26km); Aquarium du Val-de-Loire (49km)
Most Beautiful Village Crissay-sur-Manse (8km); Candes-Saint-Martin (26km); Montsoreau (27km)
National Monument Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (16km); Fontevraud Abbey (26km); Cloisters of la Psalette (37km); Oiron Chateau (40km)
Recommended Detour Loudun (26km)
Regional Natural Parc Loire-Anjou-Touraine (28km)
Religious Monument Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (26km); Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (26km); Eglise Abbatial de Saint Jouin (Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes) (43km); Eglise de Saint Généroux (Saint-Generoux) (48km); Eglise abbatiale de Saint Pierre (Airvault) (52km)
Remarkable Garden Les jardins du château du Rivau (6km); Les jardins de la Chatonnière (16km); Les jardins du château de Villandry (26km); Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (36km); Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (37km); Parc de Lathan (43km); Parc et jardins du château de Valmer (52km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Chinon (12km); Richelieu (13km); Tours (37km); Saumur (38km)
Town Of Art And History Chinon (13km); Tours (37km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (37km); Tours (37km)
Map of places to visit near Tavant & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Tavant
Canton: Île-Bouchard
Arrondissement: Chinon
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 37220
Distance to Tavant
from Tours (local prefecture): 37 km
from Paris: 241 km
from Calais: 438 km
from Nice: 658 km
from Bordeaux: 265 km
from Strasbourg: 572 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 9 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Tavant): Avon-les-Roches, Brizay, Chateau du Rivau, Cravant-les-Coteaux, Crouzilles, Lemere, Panzoult, Sazilly and Theneuil.
Getting here
Indre-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to Tavant from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Tavant