Take the 'Paths of Poitou Secret' of Poitiers to the Marais Poitevin, you will cross many small villages rich in heritage: caves of Norée to Biard, the Roman aqueduct in Vouneuil under Biard, the garden of the lambs at Vasles 'Sheep-Village', the Collegiate Church of Saint-Marc La Lande, the largest building in the Gothic style flamboyant of Deux-Sèvres and obviously you will make a stop at Parthenay (via Saint-PardouxGîte Rural de La Berlière municipality), before discovering the MaraisPoitevin by boat during a future visit...

Possibility to follow the road of the Kings of England which explains how Poitou became English.

' Eleanor of Aquitaine, last heiress of the County of Poitou, divorce from the King of France Louis VII in 1152 and immediately married the count of Anjou Henri Plantagenet, King of England in 1154.

Poitou became then possession English and moved there society Plantagenet with mass of circulating currency, development of cities, trade and culture, fostered by the granting of Charles.

The century Plantagenet is disturbed in the last quarter of the 12th century by the rivalry between Henri Plantagenêt and her family stacked against him. After his death in 1189, sons Richard the Lion and John Lackland, losing little of Eleanor poitevin inheritance for the benefit of the King of France Philippe Auguste.

Poitou will be attached to the Crown of France by Louis IX (Saint louis) in 1242 after the battle of Taillebourg and the submission of the Lusignan.'

From North to South, the historic road of the Kings of England through the Department of the deux Sèvres (79), mainly countryside, between the Sèvre Nantaise and the Sèvre Niortaise.