Things to see and do New Aquitaine

Meals in the end of the countryside a master verrier holds little miracles of life. As in his bucolic bubble, Isabelle Constant is not at the beginning of her art. Trained at the Atelier Loire de Chartres and then the Guinot Stained Glass Stained Glass Windows, our spontaneous spontaneous psychologist and psychologist has been in the region many times. In particular, she performed 3 contemporary black and white stained glass windows from the chapter chapter of the Cistercian Abbey of l'Etoile in Chauvigny, or created a set of 15 contemporary stained glass windows (he visited) from the Religious Community of Salvert. It has fully restored the Château castle, next to Mirebeau. In addition, in her shop-shop, she creates design sculptures in which she mixes stainless steel and glass, custom crockery, Tiffany lamps, furniture… Its production is aimed at both professionals and individuals.

An exceptional archaeological site. The oldest iron mine of the Pyrenees in the Basque Country, in Saint-Martin-d'Arrossa, is worth discovering. A remarkable cultural site, where its origins are inscribed for two millennia with the powerful vein of siderite of Larda and exploited with the first mines throughout the Renaissance and the modern era. Until the last period of activity, 250,000 tons of ore were extracted. The year 1914 marks the end of the exploitation. Today, 2 hiking trails allow you to discover this unique site.

Built in the th century, the castle of Saint-Maixant impresses with its powerful structure and granite walls. The fortress plan is faithful to the local use of high-marchois: a quadrilateral whose eastern facade is flanked by two round towers while the western facade presents a saillie quadrangular tower. The castle has long depended on the Châtellenie of Aubusson, a town only a few kilometres away. It is also associated with the name of La Roche Aymon, one of the representatives, Philibert, made great noise in the th century. Nicknamed "The great devil of Saint-Maixant", he had, among other cruel facts, made his wife strangle in that same castle.