Lessay tourism and travel guide

Visit Lessay: highlights and tourist information

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Lessay is situated in the Manche department and Normandy region, in the north of France at 34 kilometres from Saint-Lo, the department capital (general information: Lessay is 286 kilometres from Paris).

Popular places to visit nearby include Lessay abbey at 0 km and Coutances at 20 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

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Lessay, 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 Lessay in Normandy.

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

... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Manche

Map of places to visit near Lessay

Markets in and near Lessay

• La Haye-du-Puits: market Wednesday (8km)
• Periers: market Saturday (10km)
• Gouville-sur-Mer: market Monday - seasonal market only (14km)
• Gouville-sur-Mer: market Friday (14km)
• Portbail: market Tuesday (18km)
• Agon-Coutainville: market Tuesday & Saturday (20km)
• Coutances: market Thursday & Saturday (20km)
• Carentan: market Monday all day (23km)
• Barneville-Carteret: market Thursday - seasonal market only (24km)
• Barneville-Carteret: market Saturday (24km)

More information about Lessay, Normandy

Tourist attractions near Lessay, France

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

Heritage sites

• Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue tours (Vauban fortifications) (45km)

Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)

• Granville (43km)

Regional Natural Parcs

• Marais du Cotentin et du Bessin (19km)

Churches and religious monuments

• Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (44km)

Remarkable gardens

• Argences (24km)
• Château de Beaurepaire (43km)

Sites of natural beauty

• Baie des Veys (34km)
• Roches de Ham (41km)
• Chausey (45km)
• Forêt de Saint-Sever (57km)

Towns of Art and history

• Coutances (20km)
• Valognes (33km)

Villages d'etape

(recommended place to break a long journey)

• Torigni-sur-Vire (45km)
• Villedieu-les-Poeles (48km)

Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)

• Domjean (45km)

Zoo and/or wildlife park

• Parc zoologique de Champrepus (45km)

Geography and distances

Getting here

Lessay is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive by car, often from the ferries at Saint-Malo, Cherbourg or Caen on the coast here which are very convenient. For driving distances to Lessay from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

We have 9 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Angoville-sur-Ay, Creances, La Feuillie, Laulne, Millieres, Mobecq, Pirou, Saint-Germain-sur-Ay and Vesly.

This page in French: Visiter Lessay