Touvre travel guide
Visit Touvre: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Angouleme at 9 km from Touvre
Location: Touvre is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 8 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Touvre is 389 km from Paris and 600 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Touvre: these include Angouleme at 9 km and Torsac at 11 km. Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) is a listed religious monument at 8 km and Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) is a listed religious monument at 9 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 Touvre, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Touvre
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Touvre.
Note that all distances from Touvre shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Touvre 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 Touvre
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (4km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (9km)
- La Rochefoucauld: market every Wednesday & Saturday (13km)
- La Couronne: market every Saturday (14km)
- Mareuil: market every Tuesday (28km)
- Piegut-Pluviers: market every Wednesday (33km)
- Jarnac: market every every day except Monday (33km)
- Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire: market every Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (39km)
- Brantome: market every Monday - seasonal market only - (45km)
- Brantome: market every Friday (45km)
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 Touvre and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Touvre map below.
National Monument Chateau de Puyguilhem (47km)
Recommended Detour Nontron (34km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (8km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (9km); Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (12km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (14km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (16km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (17km); Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (19km); Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (19km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (20km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (20km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (40km); Abbaye Saint Pierre (Brantome) (45km); Abbaye Cistercienne de Boschaud (Villars) (47km)
Remarkable Garden Logis de Forge (16km); Jardin monastique médiéval (34km); Jardin du Chaigne (35km)
Town Of Art And History Angouleme (9km); Confolens (51km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (9km)
Map of places to visit near Touvre & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Touvre
Canton: Ruelle-sur-Touvre
Arrondissement: Angoulême
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16600
Distance to Touvre
from Angouleme (local prefecture): 8 km
from Paris: 389 km
from Calais: 600 km
from Nice: 595 km
from Bordeaux: 113 km
from Strasbourg: 653 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 6 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Touvre): Bouex, Garat, Magnac-sur-Touvre, Mornac, Ruelle-sur-Touvre and Soyaux.
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 Touvre from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Touvre