Monuments to visit New Aquitaine

This hall has a pillar structure. It houses the standard oven, the centre of social life for centuries and which always works during the holidays. In particular, it is used during the annual bread festival on the first Sunday in August.

It is a bicycle tour, because the cycle path connecting the village to the rest of the island offers the walkers a unique panorama of this monument built in the Middle Ages by the religious of Saint-Michel-en-l 'Herm abbey. He had the origin of grasping grain through tidal-powered grinding. It also ensured maintenance of the channel by hunting the port's vase. In the nineteenth century, in view of the importance of salt production, the mill was used to wash white gold. All the buildings were then tied to the salt trade, the bridge to the residences of state officials and of course the salt factory that owned a high fireplace. Today, if he doesn't visit, there is still an essential step for cyclists taking the wooden bridge.

Impossible to miss: The fripon is in front of the church, slowing down the Thouet. Composed of five arches, whose three médianes are in full hanger and the other two broken arch, it was built in the th century. According to everyone, it is one of the most beautiful bridges in the Thouet, which is still lacking. Beyond the Thouet is a colombier, reporting the site of a former seigneury.

Mill of the th century where only one large wheel spinning three grinding. Hubert Maillet bought it in 1990 and restored it. Today, the people in the corner come with their walnut kernels to make oil at the mill.

The so-called Prince of Wales tower was built at the end of the th century. This building is part of the fortifications around the city, it also served as a door, a garrison housing and a grain warehouse. From the th century, this tower became a prison where faux, smugglers of salt were imprisoned. At this time, gabelle (salt tax) varies according to provinces (ten times cheaper from one region to another) involving significant traffic. In 1994, artists Angel Leccia and Jacques Old invested this place by performing two works of art. These enduring works, while testifying to current artistic practices, are a new challenge to the already long memory of this heritage. Angel Leccia's video installation has its place inside the wooden prisons in which the captives of the tower were once locked.

Until the th century, the city extended its fortifications, a variety of ramparts called ditches. The enclosure would have been a six-door breakthrough. Only the gates of Saint John and Puycharraud were spared. You can follow the route of the th century bastion, Place-Mautondon square, which extends to the tower of the Vineyard by taking the direction of the Rue du Four, which takes the name of a door. The Saint John door is to visit all year round (key to the Market bar). The town testifies to an architecture of houses dating back to the th century, such as that of Joachim du Chalard, the Bailiff, the Book, the Echauguette, Rogues de Fursac or the Seneschal.

The underground lantern of the dead and an alleged menhir of La Jéraphie, a medieval point.