Venesmes travel guide
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Visit Venesmes: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Venesmes is situated in the Cher department (Loire Valley region) in the center of France at 28 km from Bourges, the department capital. (General information: Venesmes is 224 km from Paris and 458 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Bourges at 28 km from Venesmes
Popular places to visit near Venesmes: these include Bourges at 28 km and Culan at 32 km.
Eglise de Saint Martin (Ineuil) is a listed 'religious monument' at 7km and Abbaye de La Celle (La Celle) is a listed 'religious monument' at 13km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Venesmes, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Venesmes
See France This Way travel guides for Cher and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Venesmes.
Note that all distances from Venesmes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Venesmes holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Venesmes (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 France and Cher 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 Venesmes and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins artistiques de Drulon (21km) : Jardins du prieuré Notre-Dame-d'Orsan (23km) : Les Prés Fichaux (28km) : Jardin du domaine de George Sand (35km) : Jardins du château d'Ainay-le-Vieil (49km) :
- National Monuments: Palace Jacques Coeur (28km) : Bourges Cathedral (28km) : George Sand House (35km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise de Saint Martin (Ineuil) (7km) : Abbaye de La Celle (La Celle) (13km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de Noirlac et Saint Etienne Prieuré (Bruere-Allichamps) (15km) : Collegiale Saint Etienne (Dun-sur-Auron) (20km) : Eglise de Saint Martin (Plaimpied-Givaudins) (21km) : Cathédrale Saint Etienne (Bourges) (28km) : Eglise de Saint-Georges (Saint-Jeanvrin) (28km) : Eglise de Saint André (Jussy-Champagne) (30km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Blet) (32km) : St Aignan de Brinay (Brinay) (40km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Amand-Montrond (19km) : Issoudun (27km) : Chateauroux (47km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Bourges (28km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Mehun-sur-Yevre (35km) : La Chatre (38km) :
Map of places to visit near Venesmes & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Venesmes
Canton: Châteauneuf-sur-Cher
Arrondissement: Saint-Amand-Montrond
Department: Cher
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 18190
Distance to Venesmes
from Bourges: 28 km
from Paris: 224 km
from Calais: 458 km
from Nice: 521 km
from Bordeaux: 316 km
from Strasbourg: 450 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 9 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Venesmes): Chambon, Chateauneuf-sur-Cher, Chavannes, Crezancay-sur-Cher, Montlouis, Saint-Loup-Des-Chaumes, Saint-Symphorien, Serruelles and Vallenay.
Getting here
Cher is in the center of France. Most visitors fly into Paris and rent a car or drive from one of the channel ports such as Caen or Le Havre, a drive af about 2-3 hours. For driving distances to Venesmes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Venesmes