Valsonne travel guide
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Visit Valsonne: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Valsonne is situated in the Rhone department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 37 km from Lyon, the department capital. (General information: Valsonne is 359 km from Paris and 588 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Oingt at 12 km from Valsonne
Popular places to visit near Valsonne: these include Oingt at 12 km and Theize at 14 km.
Oingt is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 12km and Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 20km. 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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Selected places to visit and attractions near Valsonne, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Valsonne
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Valsonne.
Note that all distances from Valsonne shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Valsonne holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Valsonne (from booking.com 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 Rhone-Alpes and Rhone gites and villas
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 Valsonne and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (20km) : Parc du château de Laye (26km) : Le jardin de Zéphyr (32km) : Parc de la Tête d'Or (38km) : Parc de Gerland (38km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (41km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (46km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (48km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Oingt (12km) : Semur-en-Brionnais (44km) :
- Religious monuments: Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (31km) : Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (33km) : Abbaye Saint Martin d'Ainey (Lyon) (37km) : Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon) (38km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (40km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (44km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (47km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Ecully (33km) : Saint-Galmier (40km) : Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (45km) :
- Heritage Sites: Historic Lyon (38km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (27km) : Charlieu (31km) : Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise (35km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (45km) :
Map of places to visit near Valsonne & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Valsonne
Canton: Tarare
Arrondissement: Villefranche-sur-Saône
Department: Rhone
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 69170
Distance to Valsonne
from Lyon: 37 km
from Paris: 359 km
from Calais: 588 km
from Nice: 335 km
from Bordeaux: 410 km
from Strasbourg: 386 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Valsonne): Dareize, Dieme, Les Sauvages, Ronno, Saint-Appolinaire, Saint-Clement-sur-Valsonne, Saint-Loup and Tarare.
Getting here
For driving distances to Valsonne from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Valsonne