Touverac travel guide
Visit Touverac: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Barbezieux at 11 km from Touverac
Location: Touverac is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 42 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Touverac is 432 km from Paris and 638 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Touverac: these include Barbezieux at 11 km and Jonzac at 19 km. Jonzac is a listed recommended detour at 19 km and Jardin du Chaigne is a listed remarkable garden at 20 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 Touverac, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Touverac
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Touverac.
Note that all distances from Touverac shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Touverac 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 Touverac
- Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire: market every Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (11km)
- Montendre: market every Thursday (19km)
- Jonzac: market every Tuesday & Saturday (19km)
- Chalais: market every Monday (23km)
- Jarnac: market every every day except Monday (34km)
- Cavignac: market every Thursday (34km)
- Pons: market every Wednesday and Saturday (35km)
- La Couronne: market every Saturday (35km)
- Cognac: market every Tuesday & Friday (37km)
- Coutras: market every Wednesday & Saturday (38km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (41km)
- Blaye: market every Wednesday & Saturday (45km)
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (47km)
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 Touverac and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Touverac map below.
Heritage Site Pons ancien hopital des pèlerins (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (34km); Blaye citadelle (Vauban fortifications) (45km); Cussac Fort Paté (Vauban fortifications) (47km); Fort Médoc (Vauban fortifications) (49km)
Most Beautiful Village Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (32km)
National Monument Cave Pair-non-Pair (44km)
Recommended Detour Jonzac (19km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (30km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (30km); Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (30km); Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (30km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (31km); Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) (31km); Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (35km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (35km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (36km); Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (38km); Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (40km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (41km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin du Chaigne (20km); Logis de Forge (33km); Parcs et jardins du château de Beaulon (39km)
Town Of Art And History Angouleme (43km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (41km)
Map of places to visit near Touverac & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Touvérac
Canton: Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde
Arrondissement: Cognac
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16360
Distance to Touverac
from Angouleme (local prefecture): 42 km
from Paris: 432 km
from Calais: 638 km
from Nice: 621 km
from Bordeaux: 67 km
from Strasbourg: 701 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Touverac): Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde, Bran, Chantillac, Condeon, Le Tatre, Reignac and Saint-Maigrin.
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 Touverac from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Touverac