Ideas of excursions

The large seaside resort 20 km: beach, harbor, shopping, cinemas, restaurants, spa,

The lighthouse of Cordouan is a listed building, architectural delight of the 16th century. You can access it by boat from the harbour of Royan.
 

There are two casinos nearby: one in Royan and the other very close (6 km) in Ronces-les-Bains.
 

The Islan of Oleron is located only 10 km of the deposit.
One idea is to make a ballad on the island Madame that is accessible by foot, but only at low tide in the pass-to-oxen, from Port des Barques. It is the smallest island in the Charente coast, it is located 35 km just before Rochefort.

Located between the islands of Aix and Oleron, Fort Boyard is an artificial and military island built on sand that can be discovered in part to low tide.

Marshes and the stronghold of Brouage are part of the major sites of France.
Unique because of its natural and architectural environment, the citadel of Brouage is a former commercial port of salt and naval port wanted by Catholic Cardinal Richelieu to compete with the Huguenot stronghold of La Rochelle.
 

You can visit: the Royal Rope, the House of Pierre Loti, the National Museum of the Navy. In the old Dockyard, one can discover the reconstruction of the frigate Hermione, who in 1780 allowed Lafayette to cross the Atlantic to America.

Ranked as one of the most beautiful villages in France, Talmont, is famous because of its twelfth-century church facing the estuary. It is a picturesque town with low houses and narrow streets crowded with flowers overlooking a small fishing port.

It is located in St. Porchaire between Rochefort and Saintes. Built in the fifteenth century, the castle was modified in the seventeenth century to become a sumptuous house: cabinet paint on wood (1662), Louis XIII room and kitchen Saintonge with their painted beams and beautiful furniture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Front of the castle, French gardens of the seventeenth century and pond completed by an avenue of water and a staircase with a magnificent view.
 

Become a center of the Romanization of Gaul, the city was also a place of pilgrimage for pilgrims going to Saint Jacques de Compostella. You will not miss to visit the Gallo-Roman amphitheater that could accommodate up to 17,000 people (called "arenas"), the church of St. Eutropius and magnificent crypt, the Abbaye aux Dames, Saint Peter's Cathedral, Roman Arch of Germanicus ...