Tuzie travel guide
Visit Tuzie: Highlights and Tourist Information
Note: The photo above was taken in Verteuil-sur-Charente at 6 km from Tuzie
Location: Tuzie is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 36 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Tuzie is 360 km from Paris and 567 km from the port at Calais).
Popular places to visit near Tuzie: these include Verteuil-sur-Charente at 6 km and Ruffec at 7 km. Eglise de Saint André (Ruffec) is a listed religious monument at 7 km and Jardin monastique médiéval is a listed remarkable garden at 8 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 Tuzie, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Tuzie
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Tuzie.
Note that all distances from Tuzie shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Tuzie 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 Tuzie
- Ruffec: market every Wednesday & Saturday (7km)
- Sauze-Vaussais: market every Thursday (18km)
- Civray: market every Tuesday & Friday (22km)
- Chef-Boutonne: market every Saturday (23km)
- Chaunay: market every Monday (26km)
- La Rochefoucauld: market every Wednesday & Saturday (32km)
- Ruelle-sur-Touvre: market every Thursday & Sunday & (33km)
- Brioux-sur-Boutonne: market every Thursday (34km)
- Lezay: market every Tuesday (35km)
- Angouleme: market every every day except Monday (36km)
- Melle: market every Friday (36km)
- Matha: market every Tuesday, Friday and Saturday (38km)
- Aulnay: market every Sunday (39km)
- Jarnac: market every every day except Monday (41km)
- Cognac: market every Tuesday & Friday (49km)
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 Tuzie and wondering what to do next! Positions of each of these attractions is shown on the Tuzie map below.
Heritage Site Melle église St Hilaire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (36km); Aulnay église St Pierre (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (40km)
National Monument Abbey Saint-Sauveur de Charroux (27km)
Religious Monument Eglise de Saint André (Ruffec) (7km); Eglise de Genouillé (Genouille) (20km); Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (20km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Saint-Pierre-d'Exideuil) (21km); Eglise de Saint Nicolas (Civray) (22km); Eglise de Saint Pierre (Chatain) (24km); Abbaye Bénédictine (Charroux) (27km); Eglise de Saint-Brice (Saint-Mande-sur-Bredoire) (36km); Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (36km); Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (37km); Eglise de Saint Vivien (Bagnizeau) (38km); Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (38km); Eglise de Saint Pierre et eglise de Saint Hérie (Matha) (39km); Abbaye de la Réau (Saint-Martin-l'Ars) (39km); Eglise d'Usson de Poitou (Usson-du-Poitou) (44km); Abbaye Notre Dame de l'Assomption de Châtre (Saint-Brice) (45km); Eglise de Saint Martin (Gensac-la-Pallue) (48km)
Remarkable Garden Jardin monastique médiéval (8km); Parc et jardin de l’Abrègement (11km); Arboretum du chemin de la découverte (36km)
Town Of Art And History Angouleme (34km); Confolens (40km)
Ville Fleurie 4* Angouleme (36km)
Zoo Or Wildlife Park Vallée des singes (monkeys) (32km)
Map of places to visit near Tuzie & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Tuzie
Canton: Villefagnan
Arrondissement: Angoulême
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16700
Distance to Tuzie
from Angouleme (local prefecture): 36 km
from Paris: 360 km
from Calais: 567 km
from Nice: 615 km
from Bordeaux: 139 km
from Strasbourg: 642 km
* distances are direct not by road!
More information
We have 15 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Tuzie): Barro, Bayers, Charme, Condac, Courcome, Juille, La Faye, Ligne, Lonnes, Raix, Ruffec, Salles-de-Villefagnan, Verteuil-sur-Charente, Villefagnan and Villegats.
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 Tuzie from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Tuzie