Carnac tourism and travel guide
Visit Carnac: highlights and tourist information
Travel Guide To Visit AttractionsFrance This Way comment: Carnac is famius worldwide because of the extensive number of prehistoric standing stones and dolmens nearby
Important note
This page features a summary of highlights that you might like to explore near Carnac. For detailed visitor information see the Carnac travel guide.
Carnac is situated in the Morbihan department and Brittany region, in the north-west of France at 25 kilometres from Vannes, the department capital (general information: Carnac is 426 kilometres from Paris).
Attractions in Carnac
Sooner or later you might fatigue of the thousands of prehistoric monuments in Carnac...now head for the small resort and beach at Carnac Plage!: Carnac Plage
Tourist classifications for Carnac include "most beautiful village".
Popular places to visit nearby include La Trinite sur Mer at 4 km and Locmariaquer at 10 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Carnac, France: places to visit and attractions
Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Carnac in Brittany.
Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!
... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Morbihan
Map of places to visit near Carnac
Markets in and near Carnac
Market days in Carnac: weekly market: Wednesday & Sunday;
- Carnac: market Wednesday & Sunday (0km)
- Plouharnel: market Friday (3km)
- La Trinite-sur-Mer: market Tuesday & Friday (3km)
- Erdeven: market Thursday (9km)
- Saint-Pierre-Quiberon: market Monday - seasonal market only (9km)
- Saint-Pierre-Quiberon: market Thursday (9km)
- Locmariaquer: market Tuesday & Saturday (10km)
- Quiberon: market Wednesday - seasonal market only (11km)
- Quiberon: market Saturday (11km)
- Auray: market Monday (12km)
More information about Carnac, Brittany
Tourist attractions near Carnac, France
Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Carnac.
Aquarium
- Aquarium de Vannes (24km)
Grand sites of France
- Massif Dunaire de Gavres-Quiberon (24km)
National Monuments
- Megalithic site of Carnac (0km)
- Megaliths of Locmariaquer (10km)
Remarkable gardens
- Jardins de Kerambar’h (18km)
- Parc Victor Chevassu (28km)
Sites of natural beauty
- Saint-Philibert (Morbihan) (6km)
- Presqu'île de Quiberon (10km)
- Étang de Toulvern (12km)
- Phare de Port-Navalo (13km)
- Source - Vincin (Rivière de Conleau) (17km)
- Golfe du Morbihan (21km)
- Pont du Vincin (22km)
- Moulin à marée de Campen (22km)
- Vincin (22km)
- Embouchure - Vincin
(Rivière de Conleau) (23km) - Maison rose (Séné) (23km)
- Presqu'île de Conleau (23km)
- Embouchure - Marle (23km)
- Presqu'île de Rhuys (23km)
- Pont de Kérino (25km)
- Source - Marle (26km)
- Presqu'île de la Villeneuve (26km)
- Anse de Mancel (26km)
- Embouchure - Rivière de Noyalo (27km)
- Passage Saint-Armel (27km)
- Réserve naturelle nationale des marais de Séné (28km)
- Source - Rivière de Noyalo (40km)
Towns of Art and history
Villages d'etape
(recommended place to break a long journey)
- Elven (40km)
- Josselin (57km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)
- La Vraie-Croix (42km)
Zoo and/or wildlife park
- Zoo de Pont-Scorff (35km)
Geography and distances
Distance to Carnac
from Vannes (prefecture): 25 km
from Paris: 426 km
from Calais: 518 km
from Nice: 912 km
from Bordeaux: 361 km
from Strasbourg: 811 km
Getting here
Carnac is in the north-west of France. Most visitors While most UK visitors will arrive by car from the ferry port at Saint Malo a drive of 2-3 hours is still common. For driving distances to Carnac from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 5 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Crach, La Trinite-sur-Mer, Morbihan region, Plouharnel and Saint-Philibert.
This page in French: Visiter Carnac
