Circuit cyclable 5 – Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan/Sansais/St-Symphorien
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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 5 – Frontenay-Rohan-Rohan/Sansais/St-Symphorien
Distance:28,9 km
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Step 1: Saint-Pierre Church
Perhaps founded by the Viscountess of Thouars Aldéarde in 1099, the church is cited for the first time in 1111 in a charter of the Abbey of Nouaillé which, placed under the protection of the Counts of Poitou, named the priests of Frontenay. Ruined during the Hundred Years' Wars, it was rebuilt in the 1537th century by the successive bishops of Saintes Guy and Louis de Rochechouart (see their coat of arms on the bell tower) and, by royal authorization, the village was fortified (see the bretèche on the facade ). In 1635, the building had a bell placed today against a pillar of the nave. During the Wars of Religion, it was burned and repaired in 1903. Threatening to collapse, the bell tower-narthex was consolidated in the XNUMXth century and listed in XNUMX.
Step 2: Le Grand Logis municipal park
Manor house from 1782 and its outbuildings, enclosed landscaped park of 18.000 m2, three trees remarkable for their size and age, the largest weeping willow in the department, pond, covered wash house and four blockhouses dating from the Second World War.
Step 3: Sansais-La Garette and its village street
This town, located on the edge of the Gulf of Pictons, is made up of 2 large villages: Sansais perched on the hillside and La Garette on the edge of the marshes. The future king Henry IV visited the latter in 1576 and later said of the Marais that...Among these deserts are a thousand gardens where one can only go by boat...La Garette is typical of traditional market garden habitat ensuring direct access to the water for every house. An important goods transit port between Bas-Poitou (north) and Saintonge (south) until the middle of the 1995th century, this village street was completely restored in XNUMX as part of Operation Grand Site. It has become a major step in discovering Green Venice. A wooden footbridge on stilts connects it to that of Coulon.
Step 4: Saint-Vincent Church
The first church was built near the old castle, from the end of the 11th century to the second half of the 12th century on the site of a Merovingian sanctuary, itself resting on the remains of a Gallo-Roman temple ( discovery of four female heads in the round whose faces are buried in the Romanesque walls as if to make us forget the memory of a monument dedicated to pagan deities. Faces visible today in the masonry of the sacristy).
It was burned down during the Hundred Years' Wars (discovery of English coins in its ruins in the 1879th century), then during Religion. In 1672, it was demolished (discovered in the choir the bones of priest Jean Guyotière buried in 1880). Rebuilt by the Niort architect Bergeron, it was given over to worship in XNUMX.
Step 5: Church of Saint-Symphorien
registered in 1927 (Romanesque nave extended by another Gothic one, 1613th century bell tower, statue of the Virgin and Child nestled in a buttress, crucifix from XNUMX on the north wall), the outbuildings of the old Crespé house presenting a curious facade planted with bones in five rows, the administrative, social and cultural center in the town hall park (bujhaïe museum, orangery, bread oven), the Baril reach supplying several wash houses.
Step 6: The castle-town hall
In the heart of the village and in a park, bordered by a reach and alleys, the castle, former seat of the lordship, was probably rebuilt in the 1825th century. Only two primitive towers flanking the main facade have been preserved. To see: the panoramic wallpapers of the office of the mayor and deputies, dating from XNUMX and classified as Historic Monuments.
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