Vaux-Lavalette travel guide
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Visit Vaux-Lavalette: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Vaux-Lavalette is situated in the Charente department (Poitou-Charentes region) in the west of France at 27 km from Angouleme, the department capital. (General information: Vaux-Lavalette is 414 km from Paris and 626 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Villebois-Lavalette at 8 km from Vaux-Lavalette
Popular places to visit near Vaux-Lavalette: these include Villebois-Lavalette at 8 km and Charmant at 9 km.
Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) is a listed 'religious monument' at 13km and Logis de Forge is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 17km. 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 Vaux-Lavalette, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Vaux-Lavalette
See France This Way travel guides for Charente and Poitou-Charentes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Vaux-Lavalette.
Note that all distances from Vaux-Lavalette shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Vaux-Lavalette holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Vaux-Lavalette (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 Poitou-Charentes and Charente 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 Vaux-Lavalette and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Logis de Forge (17km) : Jardin du Chaigne (34km) : Jardins du château de Montréal (48km) :
- National Monuments: Chateau de Puyguilhem (41km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (17km) : Saint-Jean-de-Cole (47km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (13km) : Eglise Notre Dame de Faye (Faye) (21km) : Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (22km) : Eglise de Saint Cybard (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (23km) : Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (23km) : Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (26km) : Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (27km) : Eglise de Notre Dame (Trois-Palis) (28km) : Abbaye Saint Pierre (Brantome) (33km) : Ancien Prieuré de Merlande (La Chapelle-Gonaguet) (40km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Angouleme (27km) : Perigueux (46km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Nontron (35km) :
Map of places to visit near Vaux-Lavalette & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Vaux-Lavalette
Canton: Villebois-Lavalette
Arrondissement: Angoulême
Department: Charente
Region: Poitou-Charentes
Postcode: 16320
Distance to Vaux-Lavalette
from Angouleme: 27 km
from Paris: 414 km
from Calais: 626 km
from Nice: 589 km
from Bordeaux: 91 km
from Strasbourg: 669 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Vaux-Lavalette): Chavenat, Gurat, Juignac, Salles-Lavalette and Vendoire.
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 Vaux-Lavalette from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Vaux-Lavalette