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.
The port of Saint-Georges-de-Rex is not the only one to have been built on the edge of a hillside. The harbour and its canal (the rigole de Rimonboeuf) which were dug out in the limestone between 1850 and 1870 in order to bring the mooring stage closer to the village and the little market town closer to the 150 hectares of marshes, are linked to the canal of Chail and the Grande Rigole of La Garette, towards Coulon, Marans or Niort. It is composed of a paved mooring stage with a gentle slope, quays in cut stone with two access points and a high stone spillway which helps to keep water in the harbour. The natural harbour has been restored as part of the Great Works of the Marais Poitevin.
