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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.
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Step 1: 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 2: TACKLE
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 the Environment 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 conches and ditches and laying tourist signage. This desire for environmental excellence is always reflected in the various municipal facilities. In direct contact with the Marais, Amuré strives to preserve its heritage, both built and natural.
Step 3: Hosanna Cross of Amuré
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 4: LE BOURDET and its Maraichine Trail
The parish depended until the Revolution on the generality of La Rochelle, the election of St-Jean-d'Angély and the lordship of Frontenay. In 1419, Jean de Rochechouart received the fiefdom of Bourdet, which returned to Aimery Acarie in 1496. In 1647, Catherine Acarie was married to Charles de Cugnac. Louis-Philippe de Cugnac emigrated in 1791. The majority of his property was sold, except the castle and some land which he recovered, then died in Surimeau in 1809. His estate was then divided up and bought back. Seven mills were operating at full capacity in Le Bourdet at the beginning of the 1856th century. In 643, the town had 322 Bourdetais compared to 1982 in XNUMX due to the disappearance of agricultural operations. Aligned along a main street and crossed by two reaches and the Courance, the village continues this peasant tradition today.