For further knowledge of the rich industrial past and the diversified local artists and artisans, just push the doors of the magnificently rehabilitated Bernard d’Agesci museum and those of the regional pole of artistic professions.

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Advantageously located at the gateway to the Marais Poitevin (6 km), Niort is an ideal departure point for your explorations of Green Venice.

Gently bathed by the Sèvre Niortaise river, Niort was once a flourishing port and then a citadel girded with fortifications of which the Roman double donjon is the only remaining trace.

To be seen in Niort and surroundings...

The double Roman donjon that hosts a museum of regional ethnography, the old pillory, the covered market. 

In the surrounding area: Saint-Maixent l'École, a town founded in the 5th century.