Thure travel guide
Visit Thure: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Poitiers at 29 km from Thure
Location: Thure is situated in the Vienne department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 29 km from Poitiers, the department capital. (General information: Thure is 266 km from Paris and 469 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Thure: these include Poitiers at 29 km and Chateau du Rivau at 32 km. Futuroscope is a listed theme park at 19 km and Richelieu is a listed secteur sauvegarde at 23 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 Thure, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Thure
See France This Way travel guides for Vienne and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Thure.
Note that all distances from Thure shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Thure 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 Vienne gites and villas
Markets near Thure
- Chatellerault: market every Wednesday & Thursday all day & Saturday (7km)
- Naintre: market every Sunday (8km)
- Jaunay-Clan: market every Friday (18km)
- Mirebeau: market every Wednesday & Saturday (21km)
- Richelieu: market every Monday & Friday (23km)
- Neuville-de-Poitou: market every Thursday & Sunday (23km)
- Descartes: market every Sunday (24km)
- La Roche-Posay: market every Tuesday & Friday (28km)
- Le Grand-Pressigny: market every Thursday (28km)
- Poitiers: market every Wednesday & Thursday & Sunday & Saturday all day & Friday (29km)
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 Thure and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Thure map below.
Aquarium Aquarium de Loudun (35km)
Heritage Site Poitiers église Saint-Hilaire le Grand (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (30km)
Most Beautiful Village Crissay-sur-Manse (36km); Angles-sur-l'Anglin (36km)
National Monument Fontevraud Abbey (50km); Sanxay (51km)
Recommended Detour Chauvigny (33km); Loudun (35km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chauvigny) (32km); Abbaye de Nouaillé-Mauperthuis (Nouaille-Maupertuis) (36km); Eglise Abbatial de Saint Jouin (Saint-Jouin-de-Marnes) (39km); Abbaye de Saint Savin sur Gartempe (Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe) (43km); Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (50km)
Remarkable Garden Touffou (26km); Les jardins du château du Rivau (29km); Jardin du château de La Mothe (40km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Richelieu (23km); Poitiers (29km); Chinon (41km)
Theme Park Futuroscope (19km)
Town Of Art And History Poitiers (29km); Chinon (43km)
Map of places to visit near Thure & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Thuré
Canton: Châtellerault-Ouest
Arrondissement: Châtellerault
Department: Vienne
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 86540
Distance to Thure
from Poitiers (local prefecture): 29 km
from Paris: 266 km
from Calais: 469 km
from Nice: 636 km
from Bordeaux: 236 km
from Strasbourg: 579 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 3 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Thure): Scorbe-Clairvaux, Sossais and Usseau.
Getting here
Vienne is in the west of France. Most visitors arrive here by car - the ferry ports such as Caen, Saint Malo and Cherbourg are convenient at around 4-5 hours drive. For driving distances to Thure from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Thure