The Vienna: Successful combination of past and future

The great diversity of geological formations that make up a department with very varied landscapes, paradise for hikers, whether on foot (70 marked trails), cycling ( “The Vienna bicycle”), horse or canoe.

The cultural heritage department is also of extreme wealth that makes all these circuits discovery particularly attractive. The Vienna alone has 31 castles, for example Castle d ‘Harcourt to Chauvigny, rebuilt in XIII is one of the best preserved castles chauvinois.Et then you can go Lusignan in the footsteps of fairy Melamine who changed all Saturday snake from the waist. You can linger in some sixty remarkable religious sites: the Cathedral of St. Pierre de Poitiers, the abbey Augustine Fontaine Count or Abbey St Martin Luggage. The abbey founded in 361 by the saint is the oldest monastery in the West, which itself still active.

The department of the Vienna makes you discover its historical heritage in a thirty bet that the museum will of the sewing machine, and the almond macaroons, draught horse, to the museum of the Second World War and several archaeological museums. During the second war there nun near Poitiers a concentration camp prisoners were nomads where gypsies and Spanish refugees and the camp was used by the Kommandantur to park the Jews before sending them to Drancy.

The Vienna also invites you in one of its theme parks: the Giants sky Chauvigny, the Planet of Crocodiles at Civaux, Ile aux snakes the Trimouille, or else you’ll see the scenic route from Old Comenier to Champniers, celuidu Roc Sorciers of the Angles on Anglin or you stroll in the Parc de la Belle Magné or to the Valley of the monkeys Romagna. And then of course, Vienna is the Futuroscope: This revolutionary park that attracts so many visitors and that justifies the motto of the department: