Les Essards tourism and travel guide

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Visit Les Essards: highlights and tourist information

Les Essards is situated in the Indre-et-Loire department and Centre-Loire Valley region.

Below you can see some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Les Essards in Centre-Loire Valley.

Popular places to visit nearby include Langeais at 9 km and Chateau de Langeais at 9 km.

Les Essards, France: places to visit and attractions

Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!

Langeais

at 9 km (direction east-south-east)

Langeais is a small town with a pretty town centre, best known for the...

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Chateau de Langeais

Castle at 9 km (direction east-south-east)

Château de Langeais is a medieval-renaissance castle with nicely furnished rooms and the oldest...

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Chateau d'Ussé

Castle at 11 km (direction south)

The imposing Chateau d'Usse, next to the Loire, is an imposing medieval-renaissance castle surrounded...

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Azay-le-Rideau

at 16 km (direction east-south-east)

The village of Azay-le-Rideau is best known for its castle but also has a...

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Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau

Castle at 16 km (direction east-south-east)

Not the most luxurious or largest castle in the region, it is the beauty...

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Chateau de Villandry

Castle at 16 km (direction east)

The rooms at Chateau de Villandry can be explored, but it is the world...

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Chinon

at 18 km (direction south-south-west)

As well as the castle, Chinon has a very impressive medieval centre to explore...

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Chateau de Chinon

Castle at 21 km (direction south-south-west)

Château de Chinon retains more medieval elements than most Loire Valley castles...

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Candes-Saint-Martin

Most Beautiful Village at 23 km (direction west-south-west)

In the village of Candes-Saint-Martin, a 'most beautiful village in France', you can see...

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Candes-Saint-Martin collegiate church

Church at 23 km (direction west-south-west)

The collegiate church of Candes-Saint-Martin has numerous medieval statues incorporated in the facade and...

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Montsoreau

Most Beautiful Village at 24 km (direction west-south-west), in the Maine-et-Loire department

Montsoreau, listed as a 'most beautiful villages in France', also has an interesting troglodyte...

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Tavant

at 26 km (direction south-south-east)

Tavant is a small village but a visit to se the murals in the...

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Crissay-sur-Manse

Most Beautiful Village at 26 km (direction south-east)

Explore the lovely stone houses and narrow streets in the tiny village of Crissay-sur-Manse...

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Fontevraud Abbey

Abbey at 26 km (direction west-south-west), in the Maine-et-Loire department

The Fontevraud Abbey has a great deal to see: it is one of the...

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Markets in and near Les Essards

• Langeais: market Sunday (9km)
• Bourgueil: market Tuesday & Saturday (13km)
• Azay-le-Rideau: market Wednesday & Saturday (16km)
• Avoine: market Friday (18km)
• Luynes: market Saturday (20km)
• Chinon: market Thursday all day & Sunday (20km)
• Chateau-la-Valliere: market Monday (22km)
• Noyant: market Friday (23km)
• Fondettes: market Wednesday & Sunday (23km)
• Ballan-Mire: market Sunday & Friday (24km)

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Tourist attractions near Les Essards, France

What to do at Les Essards? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Les Essards.

Aquarium

• Aquarium de Loudun (41km)

Most beautiful villages in France

(see also beautiful French villages)

• Candes-Saint-Martin (23km)
• Montsoreau (24km)
• Crissay-sur-Manse (26km)
• Lavardin (62km)

National Monuments

• Chateau d'Azay-le-Rideau (16km)
• Fontevraud Abbey (26km)
• Cloisters of la Psalette (30km)
• Oiron Chateau (53km)

Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)

• Loudun (41km)
• Montreuil-Bellay (42km)
• La Fleche (48km)

Regional Natural Parcs

• Loire-Anjou-Touraine (21km)

Churches and religious monuments

• Collegiale Church (Candes-Saint-Martin) (23km)
• Abbaye Notre Dame de Fontevraud (Fontevraud Abbey) (27km)
• Prieuré de Notre-Dame de Cunault (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (40km)
• Eglise de Notre Dame (Chenehutte-Treves-Cunault) (40km)

Remarkable gardens

• Les jardins de la Chatonnière (16km)
• Les jardins du château de Villandry (16km)
• Parc de Lathan (18km)
• Les jardins du prieuré de Saint-Cosme (28km)
• Le jardin des Prébendes d'Oé (30km)
• Les jardins du château du Rivau (30km)
• Parc et jardins du château du Lude (35km)
• Parc et jardins du château de Valmer (45km)

Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé)

(see also historical French towns)

• Chinon (20km)
• Saumur (31km)
• Richelieu (37km)

Towns of Art and history

• Tours (30km)
• Thouars (57km)

Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)

• Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (28km)

Geography and distances

Les Essards is in the eastern-center of France at 30 kilometres from Tours, the department capital (general information: Les Essards is 226 kilometres from Paris).

Getting here

Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ports such as Caen and Le Havre (about 3-4 hours drive from here) or fly into Paris and drive south from there. For driving distances to Les Essards from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

We have 3 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Avrille-les-Ponceaux, Continvoir and Saint-Michel-sur-Loire.

This page in French: Visiter Les Essards