Tourist Attractions & Monuments Vendée

Near the. beach. Naturism is tolerated on part of the coast, delimited by signs. Swimming unsupervised.

The small town has a piece of architecture that bears witness to the technological and industrial progress of the late 18th century... A gothic bridge which can be proud of having been created by one of the most famous architects of France, Gustave Eiffel himself, in his workshop in Levallois-Perret. In 1878, the Ponts et Chaussées decided to rebuild the old gothic bridge. It consists of two vertical lattice girders, connected at the base by crossbeams, supporting the deck. The high metal parapets themselves form a lattice.

A jewel of Romanesque and Gothic art, it is one of the finest religious buildings in Vendée with its remarkable architecture of the th and th centuries Plantagenet style. This Romanesque pearl delights the esthètes, but inspires equally the mystery when one discovers successively the grimacing masks of omnipresent modillons, three strange statues private of their thoughts, a crypt well obscure, without forgetting the arrogant "malebête" toisant the visitor from the top of his pediment…