Welcome to mortagne-sur-gironde

Through the lanes which furrow between the white stone dwellings, you will discover the calm one and the beauty of the small borough of Mortagne. At the edge of cliff, top of its view-point, Mortagne invites you to discover the most beautiful point of view on the estuary of the Gironde, the marshes (the Camargue mortagnaise…) and the coast of the Medoc.

Agreeably let you be attracted by an indefinable environment due to the exceptional luminosity and the charm brought by the sailing ships and the local stone-built houses which girdle the basin.

Discover then inhabited by Martial Saint, in the II century, these rock cavities were arranged and used like dwelling by monks in IVème century. The sea arriving at the foot of these cliffs, the navigators in distress could, thanks to a “land-mark”, to locate themselves and to take refuge there.

Later these caves were used as refuge to the pilgrims of Saint Jacques de Compostelle. In 1580, during the wars of religion, the monks were expelled and it had to be waited until 1698 so that a new monk, J. To stop, restore and give again life with these places. The Revolution of 1789, again drove out all the monks and in 1792, this hermitage became a national good in which several successive families until 1878 lived or it was resold in Evêché to which it always belongs.

Guided visits with free participation

Opened every afternoon in summer, open in winter on ask

This museum at the edge of water tells you the old postcards, plans and accounts old the historical past but also the daily life of Mortagne and its inhabitants.

Free entry and free.

Opened every day from 9:00 to 19:00

This building dates from the XII century and belongs to the style Roman Plantagenet. In the arms of the Latin cross that it forms, you can admire of very beautiful capitals which have escaped with the destruction at the time of bloody equipped with Clutched of Aubigné in 1580.

The church, destroyed, will be partially to restore only during the XVII century. In the sanctuary, restored under Louis XIII, a furnace bridge Jesuit was placed. The elegant bell-tower which dominates it dates in 1860.

The flagstones of the old church recover a great number of priests and laymen who received their burial with the foot of the saints furnace bridges.

Allo TAXI SEA is a single formula of discovering the Estuary of the Gironde.

Its maritime concept is based on the hiring of professional boat with skipper, which proposes excursions of group but also any formula with the chart.

The ass is the ideal accomplice to discover the nature, the joys of the excursion and to initiate the children with this activity.

Excursion free (with route) or accompanied, one half-day at 6 days.

To count an ass for 4 people.

Tariff: 23 € the half-day for an ass, 38 € the day for an ass

Sliding scale tariff according to the number of asses and days.