Coulon,capital of the venise verte

This is a high tourist place of the Marsh poitevin, the green capital of “Venice”, it also means the known oriental party under the name of “wet marsh”, in opposition to the “desiccated marsh”.

Welcome in the Marsh poitevin.

Visitor of one day or tourist on holiday, the single Marsh site in Europe and natural paradise of greenery will enchant you through its authentic villages, its festivals, its festivals, its animations, its gastronomy and its many activities.

Life of the Marsh poitevin is organized around the water by constituting an art of living in a particularly favorable climate: nearly 2600 hours of the sunning per annum and proximity of the Atlantic Ocean bringing a oceanic softness.

Stroll in these authentic villages and survey the alleys which are held towards the ports maraîchins. Unearth the small inheritance: laundrettes, locks, fountains, footbridges, pigeon… and if life of the maraîchins is always articulated around the water, you find them the basic elements in the village-streets which marry the curve of the conches. The traditional houses give access of a side with the street and of the other with the conche. This is a whole territory which lives for a long time in symbiosis with its environment.

Founded in 830 by the monks of Charroux, the church was several times rebuilt, at the Carolingian time, then the Romance time. Restored in the XV century after the one hundred year old War, it was burnt in 1569.

At the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, 158 Protestants abjured their faith there. The others took refuge in the marsh or chose the emigration. During the Revolution it was used as barn with hay, then partially rebuilt at the XIX century.

The southern frontage of the church (on the right on the photograph opposite) is equipped by an external pulpit - a common localization not very in France. That of Coulon takes the form of a tower with hood.

The sociocultural center proposes projects putting in bond the reception of leisures and the families in their globality. Children, parents, grandparents, voluntary are accomodated over times of animation and user-friendliness to transmit, exchange and divide together. This year we stress in particular the difference and on projects around the food and of the sport. These actions are placed in the middle of the objectives of a place of popular education. In outline, here some examples of the carried out actions or to come: excursions in family in bond with the club of the hikers of the Marsh, “goûters almost perfect”, workshops origami with the voluntary ones, workshops cook and manual workshops intergénérationnels in bond with the sector family and social life of the center, etc