Villaines-les-Rochers travel guide
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Visit Villaines-les-Rochers: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Villaines-les-Rochers is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department (Loire Valley region) in the eastern-center of France at 24 km from Tours, the department capital. (General information: Villaines-les-Rochers is 228 km from Paris and 426 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Crissay-sur-Manse at 8 km from Villaines-les-Rochers
Popular places to visit near Villaines-les-Rochers: these include Crissay-sur-Manse at 8 km and Chateau de Villandry at 13 km.
Les jardins de la Chatonnière is a listed 'remarkable garden' at 5km and Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau is a listed 'national monument' at 5km. 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 Villaines-les-Rochers, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Villaines-les-Rochers
See France This Way travel guides for Indre-et-Loire and Loire Valley (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Villaines-les-Rochers.
Note that all distances from Villaines-les-Rochers shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Villaines-les-Rochers holidays and travel
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For a longer visit popular choices include apartments and holiday rentals. For these we suggest two popular options: holiday villages in France and Indre-et-Loire 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 Villaines-les-Rochers and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Les jardins de la Chatonnière (5km) : Les jardins du château de Villandry (13km) : Les jardins du château du Rivau (20km) : Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (22km) : Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (24km) : Parc et jardins du château de Valmer (38km) : Parc de Lathan (38km) : Parc et jardins du château de Chenonceau (45km) :
- National Monuments: Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (5km) : Cloisters of la Psalette (24km) : Fontevraud Abbey (34km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Crissay-sur-Manse (8km) : Candes-Saint-Martin (32km) : Montsoreau (33km) :
- Religious monuments: Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (32km) : Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (34km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (24km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Chinon (20km) : Tours (24km) : Loches (40km) : Amboise (43km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Loudun (39km) :
Map of places to visit near Villaines-les-Rochers & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Villaines-les-Rochers
Canton: Azay-le-Rideau
Arrondissement: Chinon
Department: Indre-et-Loire
Region: Loire Valley
Postcode: 37190
Distance to Villaines-les-Rochers
from Tours: 24 km
from Paris: 228 km
from Calais: 426 km
from Nice: 657 km
from Bordeaux: 278 km
from Strasbourg: 561 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 4 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Villaines-les-Rochers): Azay-le-Rideau, Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau, Pont-de-Ruan and Sache.
Getting here
Indre-et-Loire is in the eastern-center of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to Villaines-les-Rochers from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Villaines-les-Rochers