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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Amuré celebrates nature since 1996. Every year, at the end of November, it organizes the Feast of the tadpole Ash. One of its leafy market gardeners is also classified as a remarkable ...Amuré
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Its fully restored Grand Port was one of the main exchanges between the plain and the valley of Sèvre Niortaise. Two wooden cranes recall that once the poplar trunks, carried ...Arçais
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This commune, located on the edge of the Gulf of Pictons, is composed of 2 large villages: Sansais perched on the hillside and La Garette on the edge of marshes. The future King ...Sansais
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Cited in 989, St-Georges-de-Rex is one of the oldest vegetable villages. Settled in the plain, it dominates a small swamp and develops between a priory and a castle. Its restored ...Saint-Georges-de-Rex
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Conveniently located between Niort and the Ocean, Coulon experienced intense harbour activity from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. The river traffic and the exchange of goods ...Coulon
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Magné, from the Latin Magnus meaning great, is the old name of a rich Roman family located on an island of the Gulf of Pictons. Bordered by the Sèvre Niortaise and the Sevreau, ...Magné
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Located in the heart of the wild Marais, emblematic landscape of the Green Venice, St-Hilaire-La-Palud gives you access to more than 100 km of waterways and white paths. From ...Saint-Hilaire-la-Palud
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This communal market garden and hedgehog is located in the wild marsh. The Vana Aqua drift means vain and vague water preventing any cultivation before the digging of canals in ...Le Vanneau-Irleau
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The parish depended until the Revolution on the generality of La Rochelle, the election of St-Jean-d'Angély and the seigneury of Frontenay. In 1419, Jean de Rochechouart received ...Le Bourdet
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A village developed around the ancient domain of Bassinius, rich Gallo-Roman owner, Bessines is located at the crossroads of Aunis and Poitou. Bordered by the Jaron bief and the ...Bessines
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In 1402, Dey-Rançon was then the largest municipality in the department. After the Revolution, the two main villages came together to form Deyrançon. Throughout the 19th century, ...Prin-Deyrançon
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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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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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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 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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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
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