Discovering vendée

We accomodate you in the middle of the Vendée, where you will be able to contemplate the 3 landscapes characteristic of our area (Marsh - Plain - Scrap-metal), the crossed whole of rivers, thus offering a place privileged to your holidays. Our charming chief town of canton will be able to allure you by offering to you a family stay within a convivial framework! Calm, relaxation, excursions, fishing, Wine trail, history, inheritance promise holidays rich in discoveries to you! Proximity of the littoral, with the beaches of the Fault-on-Sea and the Section-on-Sea, Puy of Insane, the Poitevin Marsh, the cities of Rock-on-Yon, Luçon, Sands of Olonne and La Rochelle in fact an additional asset for the tourists?

A commune with human dimension (population: 2.282 inhabitants) on a surface of 600 hectares grounds worked by agriculture and which go down nonchalamment to the littoral. Saint Michel in Herm, old island of the gulf of Pictons, surrounded by rich grounds conquered on the sea during centuries, profits:

• Of a sunning comparable with that of the Riviera
• Calms back country while being in the vicinity (6 kms) Vendean beaches
• Of a remarkable historical past with in particular its royal abbey of which you will be able to see the Master furnace bridge out of polychrome marble in the current church
• Of dynamic community life and all the services of proximity
• Of an active craft industry and quality Its privileged geographical position adds to the charm and the quietude of life of Michel Saint in Herm by easily connecting it to the large axes of communication and the important cities like La Rochelle, the Rock on Yon, Sands of Olonnes in less than 40 mins...

How you are inhabitant of long date, occasional visitor, holiday maker or new domiciled, Saint Michel in Herm is happy to accomodate you a nd the welcome wishes you on his site!

Tightened between Lay and one of the old arms of this river, the commune of the Pivot is stretched on 12 km with an average width of 700 meters and a surface of only 1043 hectares. In the past "Eguillon", within the meaning of "the acute point", it gave its name to bay and the commune.

It is about the handle of the Pivot whose arc of almost perfect circle is held on a score of kilometers. The site remained very wild. It is attended primarily by the boucholeurs who established with the limit of the estuary of the thousands of piles on which they raise the moulds.

Olonne, devenue Olonne sur Mer en 1928, tirerait son nom d'une locution celtique: "OLONA": hauteur au-dessus de l'eau car la mer recouvrait à l'époque, une grande partie de la contrée.Quatre mille ans avant Jésus Christ, la civilisation néolithique a laissé des traces visibles sur son territoire avec la présence de menhirs (Pierre Levée et Conche Verte) et la découverte de plus de deux cents haches polies et taillées. Sous l'empire romain, Olonne était un centre important : on en a trouvé des vestiges à plusieurs endroits. La tradition attribue à l'époque romaine la création des marais salants, mais ce n'est qu'à partir du VIIème siècle que les chartes monastiques en font état.

Leave to discovered our rich and varied inheritance:

• Become the buffoon of the king to the medieval castle of Talmont.
• You at the wheel of most beautiful cars to the automobile museum of the Vendée Imagine the.
• Put your directions in awakening at the Madness of Finfarine, Maison of the Tree and Honey.
• Meet our organizers for guided tours on the salt-water marshes, the oyster parks, fauna and the flora.
• Return in the workshops of our craftsmen of art and discover their work "hand made": watercolours, historical figurines out of lead and tin, painted pieces of furniture and coloquintes.
• Benefit from your stay to enjoy the local products: oysters and other seafood, salt, local wine, préfou, Vendean brioche, etc will awake your papillae.

In full economic expansion, the Poiré-on-Life is a commune located in the middle of the Vendean scrap-metal. It is the place chief of the canton of 8 communes and is located at 15 km of Rock-on-Yon, to 40 km of Sands of Olonne, and to 65 km of Nantes, as well as international amusement park Puy of Insane (Herbaria). The territory of the commune extends on 7.200 ha is the 4th commune of the Vendée in surface. Common A the concern of the balanced regional planning where reconcile the respect of the environment and the economic development. The dynamism of the Poiré-on-Life results in particular in a policy of offer of reception facilities, as well intended for the economic actors as with the private individuals.

With Saint Gilles Cross of Life, on the coloured quays, one evening greedy with savours océanes...

Between green and blue, cyclo excursion in freedom - Arranged tracks, way...