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.
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, the village threw over the waterways 4 bridges of which the most characteristic is the bridge-metallic levis, witness of the golden age of the river trade in the XIXth century. This traffic allowed to export pottery, old local industry fed by the bri marine, clay of the marsh. The heart of magné is organized around its church and the municipality has long valued its river heritage. Every year, on the 3rd weekend of July, the International Painting Festival is held on the banks of Sèvre.
To see: Espace Culturel du Four Pontet (exhibition venue), metallic drawbridge (1901), Ste-Catherine church, Ste-Macrine chapel, Marais Pin site and Heritage trail From port to port.
To see: Espace Culturel du Four Pontet (exhibition venue), metallic drawbridge (1901), Ste-Catherine church, Ste-Macrine chapel, Marais Pin site and Heritage trail From port to port.
