Travel Guide Saint-Satur

At 3 kilometers from Sancerre.Initially called Château-Gordon, this village received the relics of the African martyr Satyrus and was, because of this, called Saint-Satur. He also bore the name Thibault-la-Fontaine during the French Revolution. It is a charming, lively and commercial town, with several restaurants with their specialities. Traces of two Gallo-Roman bridges have been found near Saint-Satur: a wooden bridge dating from the 2nd century and a wooden and stone bridge a little later. A village formed around the Abbey of Saint-Satur, whose history was particularly turbulent during the Hundred Years' War because of the destruction of the abbey church of Saint-Guinefort in 1341 and then in 1420 by the English who occupied Cosne-sur-Loire. In the 19th century, Saint-Satur and Saint-Thibault (a locality located on the banks of the Loire) saw the construction by engineers Levaillant and Quauvelin of a chain suspension bridge over the Loire, opened to the public on 1 January 1834, the canal latéral à la Loire in 1838 and the Bourges-Sancerre railway line in 1885. Saint-Satur Abbey has been listed as a historic monument since 2003. The curvilinear stone viaduct supporting the tourist route and the Saint-Pierre church, classified as a historic monument since 1840, complete the tourist attraction of the municipality.