Dombes travel guide
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Visit Dombes: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Dombes is situated in the Ain department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the east of France at 32 km from Bourg-en-Bresse, the department capital. (General information: Dombes is 378 km from Paris and 600 km from the port at Calais).
For a detailed travel guide see Dombes
Popular places to visit near Dombes: these include Dombes at 4 km and Perouges at 15 km.
Perouges is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 15km and Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne is a listed 'ville fleurie 4*' at 17km. 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 Dombes, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Dombes
See France This Way travel guides for Ain and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Dombes.
Note that all distances from Dombes shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Dombes holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Dombes (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 Ain 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 Dombes and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Parc de la Tête d'Or (24km) : Parc du château de Laye (24km) : Jardins du Château de Saint-Bernard (24km) : Parc de Gerland (26km) :
- National Monuments: Brou Royal Monastery (32km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Perouges (15km) : Oingt (32km) :
- Religious monuments: Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste (Lyon) (26km) : Abbaye Saint Martin d'Ainey (Lyon) (27km) : Eglise de Saint Estèphe (Roullet-Saint-Estephe) (44km) : Chapelle aux Moines (Berze-la-Ville) (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne (17km) : Ecully (27km) : Saint-Vulbas (27km) : Vonnas (28km) : Chaponnay (38km) : Macon (39km) : Morestel (49km) :
- Heritage Sites: Historic Lyon (26km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Trevoux (18km) : Cremieu (33km) :
- Grand Site of France: Roche de Solutre / Roche de Vergisson (43km) :
Map of places to visit near Dombes & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Villars-les-Dombes
Canton: Villars-les-Dombes
Arrondissement: Bourg-en-Bresse
Department: Ain
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 13300
Distance to Dombes
from Bourg-en-Bresse: 32 km
from Paris: 378 km
from Calais: 600 km
from Nice: 309 km
from Bordeaux: 453 km
from Strasbourg: 357 km
* distances are direct not by road!
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Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 7 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Dombes): Birieux, Lapeyrouse, Le Montellier, Monthieux, Saint-Andre-de-Corcy, Saint-Marcel and Sainte-Olive.
Getting here
For driving distances to Dombes from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Dombes