Things to see and do Pays De La Loire

Classified by Historical Monuments.

On the hills of Pouzauges, in a site with a remarkable panorama, two windmills built a century apart, in the 18th and 19th centuries, stand side by side. It is very rare today to find two windmills side by side in such good condition. The mills of Terrier Marteau are among the rare mills to have preserved this type of operation. In 1848 a wooden slat system that could be folded along the yard and greatly facilitated the work, often replaced the sails (Berton system). The millstones of the mills crush the wheat to produce flour. The visit, which lasts about 1 hour, allows you to understand how flour is made. During the renovation of the site in 2017, the association wanted to give a real economic activity to the mills. This is why tons of wheat are now transformed into organic flour, sold on site and in the city's shops. Some days the miller (who is also a baker) is present and takes advantage of the wood-fired oven to offer visitors his round of breads and brioches. Near the two windmills, an annex building allows the making of bread and a wood-fired oven, carefully preserved, allows the baking of bread and brioche. The crushed wheat becomes flour, some days the baker transforms it into bread and then bakes it in the wood-fired oven. A mini-farm with two donkeys in particular, captivates the children, while the older ones discover the wheat route and the life of the mills.

Beach tolerated 3 km north of Brétignolles-sur-Mer, known as Petit-Pont beach.

This beach with a high dune where naturism is tolerated is located 3 km north of Brétignolles-sur-Mer is accessible to the Cypress Campground - take the route to the Petit Pont restaurant. It is very busy on summer weekends. Mixed attendance, but appreciated by users of Cap Purely Centre who prefer it at St Hilaire Beach of Laugh where many voyeurs are walking, and with very dubious attendance in the dunes.

With regard to the disabled, Pen-Bron is a specialised hospital. The "Disabled" or allows to approach, even in summer, and, on the hospital side, there is a ramp to access the beach in the chair. Of course, in order to practise naturism, we need to move away from the centre, but it is a solution for those who live or go on holiday in Loire Atlantic.

Located south-east of Pornic, the dolmen of the Joselière is a funeral monument built around 3500 BC in the Middle Neolithic. It consists of a partially conserved quadrangular mound, approximately 12 metres apart. Consisting of a mass of flat stone stones, it is framed by two straight walls of dry stone, and contains a transeptée megalithic tomb (crossing of the side rooms and corridor) composed of four well-individualized quadrangular side chambers and served by an axial corridor whose entrance faces the south-east. It is accessible by the coastal road, about 200 metres from the beach of Joselière.

Between 1880 and 1886 by architect Georges Lafont, the chapel is enlarged in 1903 by two side naves. It was abandoned in the construction of a new church, Notre-Dame, in 1931. The chapel was abandoned for several years and was sold in 1981 by the parish to the city of La Baule, which renovated it in 1989. The "interior" retains its original decoration only the gallery and la voûte. Contemporary stained glass windows. Wooden vaults and charpente, married to the walls and stone pillars, regularly host exhibitions and concerts. It has become one of the city's cultural centres. It is an ideal place to discover the "treasures" of our country and elsewhere. The cultural area of Sainte-Anne Chapel is a place of culture par excellence. Throughout the year, the cultural events organized there are numerous and varied. Some are recurrent as "seaside writers", the autumn and spring salons of the La Baule Literary and Artistic Society, the exhibitions of the Culture and Faith Association, the Music Summer chamber music Festival, and of course the exhibition of La Baule.

The Place de la Sirène is an important place in the center of the city of Le Mans. It is located north of Saint-Nicolas district. Its geographical position makes it the last place in the neighborhood before leaving the ancient Faubourg Saint-Nicolas and traveling through the old bridge door, on Saint Michel Square. The square was fully occupied and animated in the nineteenth century and at the turn of the twentieth century before other major axes and squares took over popular, such as the Place de la République or the place des Jacobins. It is for the same reason that the neighborhood - and the place included - is mainly pedestrian. The statue of siren, which is actually a bas-relief, marks the overseas expansion of the trade of this so-called etamine that Jean Véron invented in the eighteenth century. Bas-relief has been inscribed at Historic Monuments since 1931. In the center of the square is the sculpture of Claude Ribot entitled «Sirens», dating back to 1991.