Vouvant Holiday section

Melusine welcomes you. Vouvant welcomes you too. A Walk Vouvant. Charming town in the south Vendee Vouvant is one of the beautiful village of France.

Mervent, a forest of oak.

Distinguished "Small Cities of Character" this medieval city, Vouvant also carries the colors of the label "One of the villages in France" and also "Ville Fleurie 2 flowers." Out of Fontenay-le-Comte signs to Chestnut Grove. Halfway turn right and dive into the magnificent forest that South Vendée Vendée called the Forest of Mervent, former property of the Templars of the twelfth century. There at least ten kilometers you are surprised by a dip in time.

Vouvant a village character.

It is said that Melusine always watch ... Right now, visitors are enchanted by the charm of the narrow lanes of Vouvant who walk between the houses of shale. Past the first houses lovingly restored combining stone, sand and lime, crossed the coast, you are greeted by the ramparts and the tower, the tower remains of the Melusine of Lusignan mighty fortress that dominates the walls of the city . Built in the early eleventh order of William the Grand Duke of Aquitaine, is the only fortified town Vouvant Vendee at the time. In the following century, the family of Lusigan built the walls with three gates (Bouguerin, Moynes and Postern).
Well informed by the tourist office Vouvant "The House Melusine" you guide your steps first in the Tour de Melusine. Remember to take the key to the Tower Cafe Melusine, otherwise you will not enter the tower. Armed with this precious document, you will climb the stairs of the tower with two intermediate rooms and you will enjoy the rewards of your efforts by the panoramic view from the top of the tower. At your feet the South Vendee. Off the Chataigneraie, on the other hand, the bend of the sea wall that protects the whole village of Vouvant. Then you go down and continue your visit.

The village awaits you proudly show streets and places as beautiful as each other. Place the Lease, its wells, the Court of Miracles, instead of the Corps de Garde, Lower Street, the street and the postern door of the postern, the Roman bridge, the laundry, the garden of the Priory and the extraordinary church nave and apses Théodelin north of the fifteenth century and richly carved portal of the eleventh century and its twin doors framed arches in various patterns.

Maybe you have the chance to see the silhouette of serpin Melusine and especially not surprise the beautiful night in the bath without risking the worst tortures. You will not regret visiting this beautiful village in Vendée what Vouvant.