Sansais-La Garette et son village-rue

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.

To see: St-Vincent church in Sansais, Maison du Cheval, Chail dam-lock, educational trail on market garden flora and fauna…