Visit the canton of barbezieux

Dominated by its castle where the tourist office is installed, Barbezieux is a rich city of share its historical past and its Great men: Strong Felix, Elie Vinet, Etienne Labrousse, founder of the league of the rights of Man…

The canton of Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire, with its sixteen rural districts and a urban district occupies the south-west of the department of Charente. An impression of homogeneity emerges from its landscape because of a slightly undulating relief, traversed by small rivers. The champagne grounds are majority on the canton, except on Montchaude and Brie-Sous-Barbezieux where the moor dominates thus offering the wooded spaces most significant.

The abbey church of Baignes, the picturesque churches of Condéon, Reignac and Bors de Baignes, the village of Tâtre with its finials and its old tilery, the buildings built with fossils and the museum of the Cognac with Lamérac, the ponds and old careers of Touvérac, the workshops of earthenware and potteries of Bathe, Bors and Reignac, the forests, ponds and moors still populated of tortoises, otters, minks, genettes, are only some of the tourist attractions of the canton.

Flowery city and station green, around its market, broadside of trade coffees and restaurants, Baignes-Sainte-Radegonde, chief town of canton, are a small accessible borough.
Its past of butter producer enabled to be known beyond the limits of the department.
This charming commune has a mixture of tourist attractions and a historical last rich person, with his church, its tower, its manor, its famous characters his cultural centre.
Rich in the tourist equipment with its camp-site two stars, its swimming pool, its tennis, its equestrian tourist centre, its many ways of walks and excursions marked out, its lodgings, B & B, its restaurant and its firm inn, Baignes is a vacation resort privileged for the authentic amateurs of holidays.

The canton of Brossac is rich in hiking trails marked out in a wild environment; according to the nature of the ground, you will meet there animal species and vegetable varied. The lovers of the adventure will leave in Guizengeard to carry out a safari with the Relay of Buissonnet, least daring will be prélasseront on the beaches of the Vallier pond in Brossac.
Some craftsmen will make you share their know-how, the producers their specialities local and finally, you will rest in the comfortable and accessible lodgings.
The Romance churches, the Gallo-Roman site “Coue d' Auzenat” and the small rural inheritance will charm impassioned of architecture and old stones. Most curious will go to Saint-Felix to visit the museum devoted to the agricultural world.