Tusson travel guide
Visit Tusson: Highlights and Tourist Information
IMPORTANT: this is a summary of local highlights. For detailed visitor information see Tusson travel guide
Location: Tusson is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 33 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Tusson is 367 km from Paris and 573 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Tusson: these include Bayers at 13 km and Verteuil-sur-Charente at 14 km. Jardin monastique médiéval is a listed remarkable garden at 0 km and Eglise de Saint André (Ruffec) is a listed religious monument at 15 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 Tusson, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Tusson
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Tusson.
Note that all distances from Tusson shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Tusson 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 Tusson
- Ruffec: market every Wednesday & Saturday (14km)
- Chef-Boutonne: market every Saturday (22km)
- Sauze-Vaussais: market every Thursday (22km)
- Civray: market every Tuesday & Friday (30km)
- Matha: market every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday (30km)
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (31km)
- Chaunay: market every Monday (31km)
- Brioux-sur-Boutonne: market every Thursday (32km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (32km)
- La Rochefoucauld: market every Wednesday & Saturday (33km)
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 Tusson and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Tusson map below.
Heritage Site Aulnay église St Pierre (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (34km); Melle église St Hilaire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (36km)
National Monument Abbey Saint-Sauveur de Charroux (35km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint André (Ruffec) (15km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (22km); Eglise de Genouillé (Genouille) (28km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Saint-Pierre-d'Exideuil) (29km); Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Civray) (30km); Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (30km); Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (30km); Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) (31km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chatain) (32km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (32km); Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (33km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (33km); Abbaye Bénédictine (Charroux) (35km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (36km); Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (37km); Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (37km); Eglise de Saint Germain (Varaize) (38km); Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (39km); Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (39km); Eglise de Saint-Pierre (Dampierre-sur-Boutonne) (40km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (40km); Abbaye de la Réau (Saint-Martin-l'Ars) (47km); Eglise de Saint-Germain (Gimeux) (48km); Eglise d'Usson de Poitou (Usson-du-Poitou) (52km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin monastique médiéval (0km); Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (19km); Arboretum du chemin de la découverte (36km)
Town Of Art And History Angouleme (30km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (32km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Vallée des singes (monkeys) (38km); Zoodyssée (42km)
Map of places to visit near Tusson & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Tusson
Canton: Aigre
Arrondissement: Angoulême
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16140
Distance to Tusson
from Angouleme (local prefecture): 33 km
from Paris: 367 km
from Calais: 573 km
from Nice: 620 km
from Bordeaux: 132 km
from Strasbourg: 650 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 12 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Tusson): Aigre, Besse, Charme, Courcome, Ebreon, Fouqueure, Juille, Ligne, Luxe, Saint-Fraigne, Souvigne and Villejesus.
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 Tusson from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Tusson