Villerest travel guide
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Visit Villerest: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Villerest is situated in the Loire department (Rhone-Alpes region) in the eastern-center of France at 66 km from Saint-Etienne, the department capital. (General information: Villerest is 343 km from Paris and 574 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Semur-en-Brionnais at 30 km from Villerest
Popular places to visit near Villerest: these include Semur-en-Brionnais at 30 km and Anzy-le-Duc at 37 km.
Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) is a listed 'religious monument' at 19km and Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) is a listed 'religious monument' at 21km. 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 Villerest, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Villerest
See France This Way travel guides for and Rhone-Alpes (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Villerest.
Note that all distances from Villerest shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Villerest holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Villerest (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 Villerest and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Le jardin de Zéphyr (37km) : Jardin du château de Chaumont (39km) : Les jardins Romans de Varenne-l'Arconce (40km) : Les Jardins du château de Drée (41km) :
- National Monuments: Aulteribe Chateau (48km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Semur-en-Brionnais (30km) : Oingt (42km) :
- Religious monuments: Couvent des Cordeliers (Saint-Nizier-sous-Charlieu) (19km) : Abbaye Saint-Fortuné de Charlieu (Charlieu) (21km) : Eglise de Saint Marcel (Iguerande) (24km) : Eglise de Saint Hilaire (Semur-en-Brionnais) (31km) : Prieuré d'Anzy-le-Duc (Anzy-le-Duc) (37km) : Eglise de Saint-Pierre-aux-Liens (Varenne-l'Arconce) (40km) : Eglise de Saint Pierre et Saint Paul (Montceaux-l'Etoile) (40km) : Eglise de Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (Neuilly-en-Donjon) (41km) : Eglise de Saint Germain (Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais) (44km) :
- Town / village in bloom 4*: Vichy (49km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Charlieu (21km) : Lapalisse (42km) :
Map of places to visit near Villerest & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Villerest
Canton: Roanne-Sud
Arrondissement: Roanne
Department: Loire
Region: Rhone-Alpes
Postcode: 42300
Distance to Villerest
from Saint-Etienne: 66 km
from Paris: 343 km
from Calais: 574 km
from Nice: 360 km
from Bordeaux: 382 km
from Strasbourg: 402 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 13 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Villerest): Commelle-Vernay, Cordelle, Le Coteau, Lentigny, Ouches, Parigny, Pouilly-les-Nonains, Riorges, Roanne, Saint-Cyr-de-Favieres, Saint-Jean-Saint-Maurice-sur-Loire, Saint-Leger-sur-Roanne and Saint-Vincent-de-Boisset.
Getting here
For driving distances to Villerest from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Villerest