Tourist Attractions & Monuments Charente-Maritime

Laurette's farm extends over 5 hectares perched on a cliff facing the ocean. It offers guided or free visits with educational panels and audioguides. To see pigs, goats, ducks, donkeys, chickens and ornamental hens. But also ostriches, emus and rheas. Take part in the activities of the farm, from the breeding to the cereal part. Half-day and full-day activities are planned for schools and groups. She makes tasting plates. Direct sale of meat, skins, fat and feathers. Picnic areas.

We reach the locks through the marshes. Fishermen love this place. Along the Button over 4 km, by the slipway, you can also reach the locks of Saint-Jean-d'Angély.

The small church Saint-Cybard is looking forward to its elegant clocher in pine apple. The Roman chevet is built on a crypt, and the facade, festonnée of three floors of arcatures, rises to the rays of the sunset sun. Inside, the stylized foliage and sculpted faces of the modillons bear the imprint of the Hispanic-Moorish art. A crypt with a low vault occupies all the space under the choir. The single nave is covered with a broken cradle vault and a faux dome. There is a small mystery: the rounding of the apse of the apse is pierced with a slightly décalé oculus to the northeast. On the day of St. Cybard, on July 1, a rising sun beam penetrates through this small hole and crosses the church in its axis. In the village it was said that the light-cast was struck by a statue or image wisely placed on that day in the choir. The church is often open, if not ask the key to the town hall. Inside, the stylized foliage and sculpted faces of the modillons bear the imprint of the Hispanic-Moorish art. At the foot of the hill, which serves as a seat in the village, the countryside deploys its grain fields and wooded horizons.

The Region is the country of churches. That of Grézac is worth a detour. Dedicated to Saint Symphorien, this church of the th century reveals under the apse of the right a remarkable ossuary crypt, one of the most beautiful of Region. The facade is carved with bas-reliefs perfectly preserved (martyrdom of Saint Symphorien, fox and stork).

Montguyon offers many tourist attractions, including the Dolmen de la Pierre Folle, an impressive megalithic complex. You can also take advantage of Lac de Guizengeard and its magnificent scenery.

The museum presents in the former presbytery of the commune nine trades to the old as well as the corresponding tools, put into situation thanks to models: farmer, carpenter, charron, shoemaker, blacksmith, carpenter, résinier, sabotier and cooper. It is a success. And don't forget to climb on the floor, you'll find a nice pottery exhibition. For children, the course is punctuated by riddles to be resolved to access the Treasure trove of Métiers's trades.