Travel Guide La Peyratte

La Peyratte, with a population of 1,200, is located about 10 km from Parthenay. If it owes its fame to its ostrich farm, the commune also attracts people for its heritage. The castle of La Roche-Faton (private), for example, rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries, is the resting place of the famous Charles-Marie Auguste de Beaumont, generalissimo of the Catholic and royal armies of Anjou and Haut-Poitou. You can also admire the low-medieval castle-fortress of Payré. As for the domain of Bertrandière, it invites you all summer long to LaBel Guinguette (concerts, foodtrucks). Take a look at the Notre-Dame church (12th century); walk or cycle along the banks of the Thouet