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recognizes itself with the green color characteristic of its flesh. The basin of Oléron Marenne oyster where one cultivates this famous and delicieuse oyster extends to him on a zone of approximately 50 km X 20 km.
It is the course of the tides which rate/rhythm the breeding of oyster. The more the coefficient of tide is raised, the more the oyster bed is put at dryness during several hours, the better and longer one can work. The oyster employs approximately 10.000 persons with Marennes Oléron, divided into some 2.000 artisanal and generally family exploitations.

The tasters evoke floral or fruity notes, fresh fruits and dry fruits; scents spiced, pepper and cinnamon among are retained; they speak even about odors of coffee, leather and cigars. There is not an official lexicon of Cognac tasting, but you will be able to share the secrecies of the professionals
Not far from Cognac, in Segonzac, capital of Large Champagne, the International University of Brandies will teach you all the strings and all the secrecies from tasting. Reserved with the enlightened amateurs or on the way to be it! !

Summer 2003. The archaeological excavations of the Roman career gallo- of Thénac continued for the third consecutive year. Strong Jacques, archaeologist and president of Archaeological Association and Historical Jonzacaise knew to join together a team of voluntary diggers gathering of the students, of the members of the AAHJ, of Thénacais, in particular of the members of the family Bouillaud, owners of the siteThat all are thanked for their participation in this countryside for excavations.

Let us recall that this career of extraction of the stone was exploited during the first century of our era. It is a habitat of carrierre there

The Charente river is now a tourist axis better and better emphasized and more and more appreciated. Navigation continues with river tourism.
The hiring of boat without licence develops near those which seek original holidays, with complete freedom, assured expatriation.
The large companies of hiring of boats without licence installed nautical bases in the principal ports boatmen. For those which do not sail, of many halts allow to benefit from sites enchanters in edge of Charente.

The track of Karting the Holy ones opened with any public, will allow you défoulement worthy of the large circuits of formula 1. .

Located between Cognac and Royan, served by the motorway A10, Saintes is a city of more than 2000 years of Art and of Histoire.Créé in 1953, at 5 minutes of the downtown area the Holy ones, the municipal golf Louis-Rouyer-Guillet is oldest of the area.
Its course of 18 holes combines technical with the pleasure of playing and makes it possible to the golfeurs of all levels to be expressed thanks to the variety of the situations of play.

To 30 mn of Royan, the Castle of the Enigmas proposes to you a new and original concept for the small ones and the large ones. A course of plays calling upon the observation, the address, the orientation, the reflexion, makes curious for better sharing the discovery of the castle and its wooded park of 10 ha.
To the pleasure of the free course the search for indices is added on interactive and ludic terminals. Restaurant crepes and grills - Surface of picnic. Spectacles saturdays evening in summer.

1er Tourist price Innovation 2000 of the Poitou-Charentes Area.

This complex shelters many activities under an immense tended fabric (vélum) of which a part can be open during the summer. Tropical lagoon with swimming pool with waves, toboggan of 60 m,cascades and geysers, jacuzzi under cascade, swimming pool of 25 m, pataugeoire external, ground of beach volleyball, parks, interior and external beach, tropical garden,
"Space Forms" with 700 m² basins with 32°C, jacuzzis individual and collective, sauna park with sauna and hammam, marbles hot, space cardio-musculation, watery basin of gymnastics, river with current, external basin heated, fitness watery and in room, course of dance,
Restaurant, shops, tropical greenhouse and room of seminars.

New concept, new place, Paléosite inaugurates an approach different from prehistory. In a park of more than 10 hectares the visitors are invited to go up time... from the big-bang to our close relations cousins néanderthaliens.

You thus do not wait to find here inacessibles collections behind armoured windows. The center is visited as if you walk in the medium of a history... or rather of the History, with a large H

Installations :
Marine space, of the large sea water basin multifunction of 140 m2, to the c?ur of the institute, the glance of the curist goes on the ocean.
Jacuzzi, geyser, swan necks, jets hydromassants and beds bubbling, decorate the watery course.
Sauna, hammam and room of rest (room of drizzle marinates charged out of trace elements and negative ions) supplement the whole of free animations of access

To really discover a department, it is necessary to have the heart buissonnière. To leave the asphalt of the paths beaten by the car, and to leave to foot, à.vélo, even with horse, on the ways which irrigate its various countries.

The General Council of the Charente-Maritime, for several years, has carried out or supported the constitution of an increasingly dense network allowing to circulate freely on oxygenated routes, along the littoral, and through forests, vineyards and marsh.