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Visit Nevers: highlights and tourist information

France This Way comment: The ancient centre of Nevers contains several interesting monuments and houses dating from the 12th century

Nevers is situated in the Nievre department and Burgundy-Franche-Comté region.

Tourist classifications for Nevers include "town of art and history".

Below you can see some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Nevers in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

Popular places to visit nearby include La Charite-sur-Loire at 23 km and Sancerre at 45 km.

Nevers, France: places to visit and attractions

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

Apremont-sur-Allier

Most Beautiful Village at 12 km (direction south-west), in the Cher department

The story of the renewal of Apremont-sur-Allier is fascinating, and leads us to the...

See Apremont-sur-Allier guide

La Charite-sur-Loire

at 23 km (direction north-west)

In La Charité-sur-Loire you can visit the abbey church and other monastery buildings...

See La Charite-sur-Loire guide

Sancerre

at 45 km (direction north-west), in the Cher department

The pretty village of Sancerre is best known for the famous wines of the...

See Sancerre guide

Moulins

at 49 km (direction south-south-east), in the Allier department

In the historic centre of Moulins it is the cathedral that is the most...

See Moulins guide

Corbigny

at 49 km (direction east-north-east)

Corbigny, on the edge of the Morvan Regional Parc, includes an abbey among its...

See Corbigny guide

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Markets in and near Nevers

Market days in Nevers: weekly market: Saturday all day;

• Nevers: market Saturday all day (0km)
• Fourchambault: market Sunday (6km)
• Sancoins: market Wednesday (26km)
• La Machine: market Saturday (26km)
• Decize: market Friday (29km)
• Lurcy-Levis: market Monday (34km)
• Baugy: market Friday (34km)
• Saint-Satur: market Thursday (45km)
• Dun-sur-Auron: market Saturday (47km)
• Corbigny: market Friday (49km)

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Tourist attractions near Nevers, France

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

Heritage sites

• Abbatiale Notre-Dame de La Charité-sur-Loire (monuments on French pilgrim routes) (23km)

Most beautiful villages in France

(see also beautiful French villages)

• Apremont-sur-Allier (12km)

Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)

• Sancerre (45km)

Churches and religious monuments

• Eglise de Saint Germain (Blet) (34km)
• Prieuré de Saint Révérien (Saint-Reverien) (36km)
• Eglise de Saint André (Jussy-Champagne) (39km)
• Eglise de Notre-Dame-du-Pré (Donzy) (42km)
• Eglise de Saint Martin (Ygrande) (44km)
• Collegiale Saint Etienne (Dun-sur-Auron) (46km)

Remarkable gardens

• Forgeneuve (3km)
• Parc floral d'Apremont (13km)
• Arboretum de Balaine (34km)
• Parc et jardin du château du Chatillon en Bazois (38km)
• Jardin du château de Limanton (44km)

Sites of natural beauty

• Foret de Troncais (51km)

Villages d'etape

(recommended place to break a long journey)

• Pougues-les-Eaux (10km)

Geography and distances

Nevers is in the eastern-center of France - it is the prefecture (capital) of the Nievre department (general information: Nevers is 216 kilometres from Paris).

Getting here

Most visitors fly into one of the Paris airports and hire a car or drive from a channel ferry port, operhaps Calais or Dunkirk at about 5 - 6 hours. For driving distances to Nevers from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

We have 8 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Challuy, Coulanges-les-Nevers, Fourchambault, Garchizy, Gimouille, Marzy, Saint-Eloi and Sermoise-sur-Loire.

This page in French: Visiter Nevers