Touzac travel guide
Visit Touzac: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Barbezieux at 9 km from Touzac
Location: Touzac is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 27 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Touzac is 413 km from Paris and 618 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Touzac: these include Barbezieux at 9 km and Saint-Simon at 13 km. Jardin du Chaigne is a listed remarkable garden at 0 km and Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) is a listed religious monument at 13 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 Touzac, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Touzac
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Touzac.
Note that all distances from Touzac shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Touzac 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 Touzac
- Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire: market every Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (9km)
- Jarnac: market every every day except Monday (14km)
- La Couronne: market every Saturday (21km)
- Cognac: market every Tuesday & Friday (21km)
- Jonzac: market every Tuesday & Saturday (25km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (26km)
- Pons: market every Wednesday and Saturday (31km)
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (33km)
- Chalais: market every Monday (35km)
- Montendre: market every Thursday (35km)
- Matha: market every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday (37km)
- Riberac: market every Tuesday & Friday (51km)
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 Touzac and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Touzac map below.
Heritage Site Pons ancien hopital des pèlerins (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (31km); Saintes basilique St Eutrope (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (43km)
Most Beautiful Village Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (40km)
Recommended Detour Jonzac (25km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (13km); Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (16km); Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (16km); Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (18km); Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) (19km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (19km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (21km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (22km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (22km); Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (23km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (26km); Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (27km); Abbaye de Fontdouce (Saint-Bris-des-Bois) (34km); Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) (37km); Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (39km); Abbaye aux Dames de Saintes (Saintes) (42km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (45km); Eglise de Saint-Savinien (Fenioux) (51km); Eglise Notre Dame de Faye (Faye) (51km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin du Chaigne (0km); Logis de Forge (22km)
Secteur Sauvegarde Saintes (42km)
Town Of Art And History Angouleme (27km); Saintes (43km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (26km); Saintes (42km)
Map of places to visit near Touzac & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Touzac
Canton: Châteauneuf-sur-Charente
Arrondissement: Cognac
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16120
Distance to Touzac
from Angouleme (local prefecture): 27 km
from Paris: 413 km
from Calais: 618 km
from Nice: 622 km
from Bordeaux: 86 km
from Strasbourg: 687 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Touzac): Ambleville, Bonneuil, Bouteville, Criteuil-la-Magdeleine, Eraville, Lagarde-sur-le-Ne, Lignieres-Sonneville, Malaville, Nonaville, Saint-Medard, Saint-Preuil, Vignolles and Viville.
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 Touzac from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Touzac