Randonnée Sansais-La Garette : La chevauchée du Marais poitevin
Route details
Description
Happy hiking and remember that you are not alone on the trails you are about to travel. We therefore invite you to respect nature: avoid picking flowers and plants, do not leave any trash behind, respect inhabited places, stay on the trails, keep dogs on a leash.
Your itinerary
Step 1
At the heart of the Marais Poitevin listed natural site, this large complex is a flagship site in the region for horse lovers. This is where you will start your walk.
Step 2
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 at La Garette. … The commune of Sansais – La Garette has been part of the Marais Poitevin classified site since 2003
Step 3
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 4
Amuré has been celebrating nature since 1996. Every year, at the end of November, it organizes the Pollarded Ash Festival. One of its market garden deciduous trees is also classified as a remarkable tree of Deux-Sèvres. In 2001, the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Regional Planning presented a prize to the municipality to reward it for its involvement in upgrading its landscapes by planting thousands of pollarded ash trees and bocage hedges, cleaning out conches and ditches and the installation of tourist signage. This desire for environmental excellence is also reflected in eco-housing as evidenced by the 3 ears communal gîte approved Bébé Confort and installed in an old house in the wet marsh with its period furniture and its boiler using shredded wood chips.
Step 5
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 6
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 7
Channels have different names, depending on their (increasing) importance:
– the ditch (less than 4 m wide),
– the conch, the stirrup, the lock, the rope (4 to 8 m wide),
– the reach, the water route, the marrow, the channel, the belt, the length, the channel (from 5 to 20 m wide),
– the canal, the achenal, the counter-bottom (beyond 15 m wide).
The channel is a path larger than the conch itself larger than the ditch.
Step 8
The peat bogs partly make up the wet marsh in the same way as the bocage marshes, the commons, the terrees or the bri holes. This is what makes the diversity and uniqueness of market garden landscapes.