Nontron tourism and travel guide
Visit Nontron: highlights and tourist information
Travel Guide To Visit AttractionsFrance This Way comment: Nontron is a quiet town within the Perigord-Limousin Regional Natural Park to the north of the Dordogne
Important note
This page features a summary of highlights that you might like to explore near Nontron. For detailed visitor information see the Nontron travel guide.
Nontron is situated in the Dordogne department and Aquitaine region (now part of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region), in the south-west of France at 39 kilometres from Perigueux, the department capital (general information: Nontron is 391 kilometres from Paris).
Tourist classifications for Nontron include "recommended detour".
Popular places to visit nearby include Saint-Jean-de-Cole at 18 km and Brantome at 18 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Nontron, 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 Nontron in Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!
... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Dordogne
Map of places to visit near Nontron
Markets in and near Nontron
- Piegut-Pluviers: market Wednesday (11km)
- Brantome: market Monday - seasonal market only (19km)
- Brantome: market Friday (19km)
- Mareuil: market Tuesday (19km)
- Thiviers: market Tuesday - seasonal market only (24km)
- Thiviers: market Saturday (24km)
- Chalus: market Friday (29km)
- Lisle: market Tuesday (29km)
- La Rochefoucauld: market Wednesday & Saturday (32km)
- Tocane-Saint-Apre: market Monday & (33km)
More information about Nontron, Aquitaine
Tourist attractions near Nontron, France
Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Nontron.
Heritage sites
Most beautiful villages in France
(see also beautiful French villages)
- Saint-Jean-de-Cole (18km)
- Aubeterre-sur-Dronne (48km)
National Monuments
- Chateau de Puyguilhem (14km)
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)
- Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche (42km)
Regional Natural Parcs
- Perigord-Limousin (14km)
Churches and religious monuments
- Abbaye Cistercienne de Boschaud (Villars) (14km)
- Abbaye Saint Pierre (Brantome) (18km)
- Eglise Notre Dame de l'Assomption (Thiviers) (24km)
- Ancien Prieuré de Merlande (La Chapelle-Gonaguet) (36km)
- Abbaye Notre Dame (Chancelade) (36km)
- Eglise de Saint Vincent (Puymoyen) (39km)
- Eglise Saint Etienne de la Cité (Perigueux) (39km)
- Eglise Notre Dame de Faye (Faye) (40km)
- Cathédrale Saint Pierre (Angouleme) (42km)
- Eglise de Notre Dame (Voulgezac) (42km)
- Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (Coulgens) (43km)
- Abbaye de Saint-Amand (Saint-Junien) (44km)
- Eglise de Saint Jean-Baptiste (La Couronne) (45km)
- Eglise de Saint Michel (Saint-Michel) (45km)
Remarkable gardens
- Jardin de Liliane (35km)
- Logis de Forge (42km)
- Jardins du château de Hautefort (48km)
Sites of natural beauty
- Grotte de Montgaudier (21km)
- Réserve naturelle régionale Étang de la Monnerie (26km)
- Site Corot (45km)
Towns of Art and history
Villages d'etape
(recommended place to break a long journey)
- La Rochefoucauld (32km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)
- Saint-Hilaire-les-Places (41km)
- Limoges (56km)
Geography and distances
Distance to Nontron
from Perigueux (prefecture): 39 km
from Paris: 391 km
from Calais: 609 km
from Nice: 561 km
from Bordeaux: 124 km
from Strasbourg: 635 km
Getting here
Nontron is in the south-west of France. Most visitors fly into the airports at either Bergerac (or Bordeaux). Alternatively to drive from the cross-channel ports takes around 9-11 hours. For driving distances to Nontron from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 5 other places listed as being close (less than 6 kilometres from Nontron): Saint-Front-sur-Nizonne, Saint-Martial-de-Valette, Saint-Martin-le-Pin, Savignac-de-Nontron and Sceau-Saint-Angel.
This page in French: Visitez Nontron