Villemontais travel guide
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Visit Villemontais: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Villemontais is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 68 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: Villemontais is 342 km from Paris and 574 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Semur-en-Brionnais at 33 km from Villemontais
Popular places to visit near Villemontais: these include Semur-en-Brionnais at 33 km and Chateldon at 33 km.
Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) is a listed 'religious monument' at 24km and Charlieu is a listed 'recommended detour' at 26km. 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 Villemontais, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Villemontais
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Villemontais.
Note that all distances from Villemontais shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Villemontais holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Villemontais (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 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 Villemontais and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Le jardin de Zéphyr (42km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (43km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (43km) : Parc du domaine royal de Randan (46km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (46km) :
- National Monuments: Aulteribe Chateau (42km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Semur-en-Brionnais (33km) : Oingt (49km) :
- Religious monuments: Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (24km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (26km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (27km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (33km) : Prieuré d'Anzy-le-Duc (Anzy-le-Duc) (39km) : Eglise de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Neuilly-en-Donjon) (41km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) (42km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (43km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (48km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Vichy (44km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (26km) : Lapalisse (39km) :
Map of places to visit near Villemontais & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Villemontais
Canton: Roanne-Sud
Arrondissement: Roanne
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42155
Distance to Villemontais
from Saint-Etienne: 68 km
from Paris: 342 km
from Calais: 574 km
from Nice: 364 km
from Bordeaux: 375 km
from Strasbourg: 407 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 8 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Villemontais): Arcon, Bully, Cherier, Lentigny, Ouches, Saint-Alban-les-Eaux, Saint-Andre-D'Apchon and Saint-Jean-Saint-Maurice-sur-Loire.
Getting here
For driving distances to Villemontais from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Villemontais