Route details
Description
A difficult route with a complicated part at the end of the route which requires good management of physical freshness to face the final difficulties. A trail course 20 minutes from the center allowing you to discover the Germond-Rouvre trail playground.
Favorite of the Niort Trail Station with technical areas uphill and downhill. A trail terrain as we know them in the Alps with the demands expected of trail runners!
Novices, refrain.
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Your itinerary
Step 1
Germond-Rouvre is located on the secondary road to Santiago de Compostela via Deux-Sèvres used by the English, Normans and Bretons. It included a maladrerie united in 1695 at the Château-Bourdin hospital (Saint-Pardoux-en-Gâtine) and two chaplaincies, one of which still existed in 1786.
In the 1804th century, the first bay of its church, built in the XNUMXth century by Poitevin monks, is topped by an enormous bell tower-porch, a late and clumsy imitation of that of Secondigny and Parthenay-le-Vieux. The southern facade was flanked in the XNUMXth century by a funerary chapel with flamboyant Gothic vaults. After the Concordat of XNUMX, one of the baroque altars of Saint-Antoine-de-la-Lande was transferred to the sanctuary.
Deprived of its original vaults, only the framed apse and part of the nave remain. Did you notice the sculpted bat?
Step 2
The Naimbouc fountain was demonized at the time of the Christianization of the region to divert new converts from this Gallic place of worship; the goat being one of the symbols of the evil one.
Step 3
La Chaise, the highest point of Germond-Rouvre at 123 m. high, was in the XNUMXth century the property of the widow of the knight Charles de Lusignan de Saint-Gelais, marquis of Saint-Gelais. Nowadays, exploitation of the Chaise rocks in the so-called “Pleige” quarry and climbing site.
Ancient pilgrimage to the statue of Notre-Dame-de-la-Chaise in the Bourlot valley, a tributary of the Egray.
Step 4
Facing the Chaise rocks, the Luc, whose existence dates back at least to Antiquity, is today a castle rebuilt in 1830.