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Safety instructions – Wearing a helmet is strongly recommended. I drive on the right. I respect the highway code. I check the condition of my bike (brakes and lighting). I stay on the marked trails. I respect the marsh, a sensitive and classified site.
Cycle route 3 – Amuré/St-Georges-de-Rex/Vanneau-Irleau/Sansais
Distance:25,9 km
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Step 1: Notre-Dame Church in Amuré
Dating from the 2005th and 1889th centuries, the building, partly rebuilt in the XNUMXth century, was restored in XNUMX. It hosts a photo exhibition remembering life in the village in the past. Its old cemetery contains tombs from the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries in the shape of a sarcophagus and a XNUMXth century hosnière cross listed in XNUMX.
Step 2: The Hosanna cross, listed as a historic monument
A 1889th century Hosannière cross, listed in XNUMX, and XNUMXth and XNUMXth century tombs in the shape of a sarcophagus are visible in the old cemetery which is adjacent to the parish church. What was a hossannière cross used for? On the Sunday before Easter, the priest read the Gospel celebrating Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. The audience paraded while singing Hosanna and placed branches on the desk placed to the west.
Step 3: Two 60 million year old megaliths
The new cemetery was built in the 50s around two 60 million year old megaliths. Tradition says that any construction is impossible within their perimeter. Any work done the day before disappears the same morning! Then, discouraged, one of the masons threw his hammer far away, saying to him: Go and find a place where we can work. The tool stops at the location where the church will be built.
Step 4: Goron Port
Isolated from the town of Amuré, this natural port has a gently sloping slipway made of limestone.
Built to encourage trade with Saint-Georges-de-Rex, La Garette, Le Vanneau, Coulon and Niort, it offers outlets for local production (firewood, hemp, market garden crops and fish).
During the 1995th century, its activity declined due to the development of roads in the marsh. In XNUMX, it was restored as part of the Major Works of the President of the Republic.
Step 5: The Rimonboeuf Rigole
The Rigole de Rimonboeuf is the main collecting canal for the waters of the St Georges and Amuré marshes. When you cross it, take a break to try to catch a glimpse of the dense wildlife of the Marais.
Step 6: Sansais-La Garette and its village street
The commune includes two villages inhabited since prehistoric times: Sansais perched on a bocaged hillside and La Garette clinging to the side of a mound (31 m high mound), in the heart of the Marais Poitevin. Henri III of Navarre, the future good king Henri IV, staying in Mursay in 1576, hunting and fishing in La Garette. Ten years later, back in the Marais Poitevin, he wrote that "Among these deserts are a thousand gardens where one only goes by boat... Of fish, it is a monstrosity that the quantity, the size and the price... "Classified at almost 90%, La Garette, from the French guéret meaning fallow, is a street village laid out between hillside and marsh, between the Jaguin port and the port of the Vieille Auberge called Grand Port.
Step 7: Saint-Jacques Church
The church dates from 1778. The interior of the building was renovated in the 1980s, and has a wooden vault. The plan is based on a single nave ending in a cul-de-four apse.
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