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Vaux-le-Penil travel guide

Visit Vaux-le-Penil: Highlights and Tourist Information

Location: Vaux-le-Penil is situated in the Seine-et-Marne department (Paris region) in the Paris region of France at 3 km from Melun, the department capital. (General information: Vaux-le-Penil is 44 km from Paris and 276 km from the port at Calais).

Note: The photo above was taken in Catacombs at 43 km from Vaux-le-Penil

Popular places to visit near Vaux-le-Penil: these include Catacombs at 43 km and Paris at 44 km.

Melun is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 3km and Abbaye du Lys (Dammarie-les-Lys) is a listed 'religious monument' at 3km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

Tourist classifications for Vaux-le-Penil: Village in bloom (ville fleurie) 2*;

Photos taken within 10 km

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Selected places to visit and attractions near Vaux-le-Penil, France

Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Vaux-le-Penil

Note that all distances from Vaux-le-Penil shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.

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-le-Penil and wondering what to do next!

1. 'Remarkable gardens': Parc du château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (6km) : Domaine national de Fontainebleau (13km) : Parc du château de Courances (18km) : Parc de Chamarande (34km) : Domaine national de Champs-sur-Marne (37km) : Parc du domaine de Sceaux (39km) : Parc de Courson (40km) : Maison de Chateaubriand (41km) : Parc du château de Beauregard (41km) : Jardin du Palais-Royal (45km) :
2. National Monuments: Champs-sur-Marne Chateau (37km) : Vincennes Chateau (40km) : Pantheon (43km) : Conciergerie (44km) : Notre Dame cathedral (44km) : Sainte-Chapelle (44km) : Chapelle Expiatoire (47km) : Arc de Triomphe (48km) : Saint Cloud Parc (49km) : Maison des Jardies (49km) :
3. Religious monuments: Abbaye du Lys (Dammarie-les-Lys) (3km) : Eglises de Saint Loup (Saint-Loup-de-Naud) (39km) : Cathédrale Notre Dame (Etampes) (39km) : Eglise de Saint Basile (Etampes) (39km) : Eglises de Saint Eustache (Paris) (41km) : Collegiale de Saint Martin (Etampes) (41km) : Maison d'Ourscamp (Paris) (44km) : Collegiale Saint Quiriace (Provins) (45km) : Cathédrale de Notre Dame (Paris) (45km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) (45km) :
4. Town / village in bloom 4*: Melun (3km) : Le Mee-sur-Seine (3km) : Creteil (32km) : Maisons-Alfort (36km) : Le Plessis-Robinson (42km) : Gagny (42km) : Livry-Gargan (45km) : Meudon (46km) : Aulnay-sous-Bois (47km) : Velizy-Villacoublay (47km) :
5. Heritage Sites: Fontainebleau Palace (13km) : Seine Banks, Paris (44km) : Provins (46km) :
6. Towns of Art and History: Noisiel (37km) : Etampes (39km) :
7. Recommended Detour Town: Moret-sur-Loing (19km) :

Map of places to visit near Vaux-le-Penil & Location Information

Geographical Information

Commune: Vaux-le-Pénil

Canton: Melun-Nord

Arrondissement: Melun

Department: Seine-et-Marne

Region: Paris

Postcode: 77000

Distance to Vaux-le-Penil

from Melun: 3 km

from Paris: 44 km

from Calais: 276 km

from Nice: 642 km

from Bordeaux: 479 km

from Strasbourg: 373 km

* distances are direct not by road!

Place with full review on France This Way Other attractions & sights of interest

More information

We have 16 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Vaux-le-Penil): Bois-le-Roi, Boissettes, Cesson, Chartrettes, Dammarie-les-Lys, La Rochette, Le Mee-sur-Seine, Livry-sur-Seine, Maincy, Melun, Moisenay, Rubelles, Sivry-Courtry, Vert-Saint-Denis, Villiers-en-Biere and Voisenon.

Getting here

For driving distances to Vaux-le-Penil from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

This page in French: Visitez Vaux-le-Penil