Touvre travel guide
Visit Touvre: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Touvre is situated in the Charente (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 8 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Touvre is 389 km from Paris).
Note: The photo above was taken in Angouleme at 9 km from Touvre
Popular places to visit nearby: these include Angouleme at 9 km and Torsac at 11 km . 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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What to do? Selected places to visit and attractions close by
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Touvre. Note that all distances shown are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater.
See France This Way travel guides for Charente (this department) and Poitou-Charentes (this region) for more travel ideas in the area of 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 holiday apartments - we suggest holiday villages in France
Markets near Touvre
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market Thursday & Sunday & (4km)
- Angouleme: market every day except Monday (9km)
- La Rochefoucauld: market Wednesday & Saturday (13km)
- La Couronne: market Saturday (14km)
- Mareuil: market Tuesday (28km)
- Piegut-Pluviers: market Wednesday (33km)
- Jarnac: market every day except Monday (33km)
- Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire: market Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (39km)
- Brantome: market Monday - seasonal market only (45km)
- Brantome: market Friday (45km)
Map of places to visit near Touvre and location information
Tourist attractions to visit
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 map below.
National Monuments Chateau de Puyguilhem (47km)
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour) Nontron (34km)
Churches or other religious monuments 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 Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (40km); Abbaye Saint Pierre (Brantome) (45km); Abbaye Cistercienne de Boschaud (Villars) (47km)
Remarkable gardens Logis de Forge (16km); Jardin monastique médiéval (34km); Jardin du Chaigne (35km)
Sites of natural beauty Grotte de Montgaudier (16km)
Towns of Art and history Angouleme (9km); Confolens (51km)
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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
Close by
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