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Visit Visan: Highlights and Tourist Information
Location: Visan is situated in the Vaucluse department (Provence region) in the south-east of France at 42 km from Avignon, the department capital. (General information: Visan is 543 km from Paris and 773 km from the port at Calais).
Note: The photo above was taken in Grignan at 12 km from Visan
Popular places to visit near Visan: these include Grignan at 12 km and Vaison-la-Romaine at 13 km.
Seguret is a listed 'most beautiful village' at 13km and Cathédrale Notre Dame de Nazareth (Vaison-la-Romaine) is a listed 'religious monument' at 13km. For more places to visit nearby and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Photos taken within 10 km
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Selected places to visit and attractions near Visan, France
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend close to Visan
See France This Way travel guides for Vaucluse and Provence (the local department and region) for more travel ideas in the area of Visan.
Note that all distances from Visan shown above are direct and real driving distances will be greater.
Visan holidays and travel
If you are planning a visit we suggest you see hotels in and near to Visan (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 Provence and Vaucluse 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 Visan and wondering what to do next!
- 'Remarkable gardens': Jardin des herbes (18km) : Jardin du château de Brantes (34km) : Jarditrain (36km) :
- National Monuments: Fort Saint-Andre (40km) :
- Beautiful Villages: Seguret (13km) : Aigueze (31km) : La Roque-sur-Ceze (37km) : Venasque (39km) : Mirmande (44km) : Gordes (49km) :
- Religious monuments: Cathédrale Notre Dame de Nazareth (Vaison-la-Romaine) (13km) : Cathédrale Notre-Dame (Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux) (15km) : Eglise de Saint Michel (La Garde-Adhemar) (18km) : Abbaye d'Aiguebelle (Montjoyer) (20km) : Abbatiale Sainte-Marie (Cruas) (41km) : Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Repos de Montfavet (Avignon) (42km) : Collégiale Notre Dame des Anges (Sorgues) (45km) : Abbaye de Sénanque (Gordes) (49km) :
- Heritage Sites: Orange Roman Theatre (22km) : Avignon Centre (42km) :
- Towns of Art and History: Vaison-la-Romaine (13km) : Carpentras (30km) :
- Recommended Detour Town: Nyons (16km) : Pernes-les-Fontaines (36km) : Crest (47km) :
- Grand Site of France: Mont Ventoux (30km) : Aven d'Orgnac (42km) : Gorges de l'Ardeche (46km) :
Map of places to visit near Visan & Location Information
Geographical Information
Commune: Visan
Canton: Valréas
Arrondissement: Avignon
Department: Vaucluse
Region: Provence
Postcode: 84820
Distance to Visan
from Avignon: 42 km
from Paris: 543 km
from Calais: 773 km
from Nice: 197 km
from Bordeaux: 441 km
from Strasbourg: 521 km
* distances are direct not by road!
Place with full review on France This Way 
Other attractions & sights of interest
More information
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Visan): Buisson, Richerenches, Saint-Maurice-sur-Eygues, Saint-Roman-de-Malegarde and Tulette.
Getting here
Vaucluse is in the south-east of France. Most visitors fly into Nice or Marseille airport. Driving is also possible - coming by car to the region takes about 10 hours from the cross-channel ferry ports. For driving distances to Visan from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
This page in French: Visitez Visan