Niort Marais poitevin – Vallée de la Sèvre Niortaise Tourist Office offers practical informations to book and organize your trip in Niort and in the Marais Poitevin, “Grand Site de France”.Gites, hotels, guest houses, campsites… come and relax in a quiet place, over the river Sèvre Niortaise and its castles. Ride by boat, by walk or by bike : conquer the Green Venice. Discover animations, activities, sites you must see, restaurants… to move during your next holidays between plain and marsh.
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Priaire(s), which is written with or without the final s, is quoted for the first time in 1044 in the cartular of the abbey of St-Jean-d'Angély and belonged to the Aunis under ...Val-du-Mignon
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The smallest municipality of Niort Agglo is named to distinguish it from that of Thorigné, close to Celles-s. -Belle. In the Middle Ages, the seigneury depended on the election ...Val-du-Mignon
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Usseau derives from Ussena meaning a hill planted with vines. The commune is composed of 5 hamlets nicknamed locally the gaps. Located at the crossroads of an old Roman road leading ...Val-du-Mignon
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At the edge of the Marais Poitevin, the commune is nestled in the Vallée de la Courance. The seigneury was first mentioned in 1093. During the siege of Frontenay, in 1242, Louis ...Vallans
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His name certainly appeared between IXè and Xè s. at a time when one settles on the heights for defensive reasons and his founder was named Enard. In the heart of a limestone ...La Rochénard
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At the crossing of Poitou and Aunis, Mauzé takes its name from Mauseacum meaning placed in the middle of the waters. Built on the banks of the Mignon, the city develops around ...Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon
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The oldest denominations of Epannes suggest that Spaniards are not foreign to its foundation. Perhaps Iberian legionnaires at the time of the Roman conquest of Gaul whose village ...Épannes