Attractions and Places To See around Saint-Cybardeaux - Top 12

This fountain is really very pretty

The Tonne Fountain is located in Vindelle, Charente (16), and is a highlight of a popular hiking trail that winds along the banks of the Charente River and through rolling landscapes, offering a refreshing break, often featuring a beautiful sculpted fountain that invites contemplation. Location: In the commune of Vindelle, near Angoulême, it is a popular destination for walks. How to find it: You will find it by following a marked path from the parking area, which passes through hamlets such as Puant and Le Cluzeau. Hiking Trail: The Angoulême Tourist Office offers detailed itineraries for discovering this fountain, often called the Tonne Fountain (and not Tenne), and its surroundings, according to www.angouleme-tourisme.com and www.infiniment-charentes.com. Special feature: It is a sculpted fountain, the work of a local resident, nestled between river and forest, near Mysterra (if we refer to a similar article), which attracts walkers.

The natural site of the fountain of Tonne corresponds to a line of resurgent springs that we follow on the slope of the right bank of the Charente valley; they correspond to the outcrop of the base of a bench of clayey limestone from the Upper Jurassic. In the same geological situation, we find the fountain of La Faye, that of Font des rentes, the source of Ladoux in Marsac, the Font Pélerine not far from Bouchauds, as well as further south, the Breuillerie and the Pierre Levée on the commune of Trois-Palis. As in any karstic-type hydrogeology, the water from the fountain arrives in the open air after a long underground journey; even in periods of summer low water or severe drought, the source remains supplied. A narrow: pipe cut in the rock allows to concentrate the waters at the place of their exit. The very high concentration of carbonates in the water causes the precipitation of these in the form of solidification of porous rock which advances into the upper basin of the fountain. The fountain is also a favorable environment for a micro fauna of amphibians, frogs and salamanders, and the embankments that surround it see the appearance of pentecostal orchis purpurea (orchids) every year. The village of Tonne was only connected to running water from 1966, so the fountain was used until that time. It was restored in 1992 by the inhabitants of Vindelle, then in 2001 through an integration project which restored the pavement that surrounds it. The path is listed on a pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela.

Located in the archpriest of Ambérac, diocese of Angoulême, the conventual priory of Notre-Dame de Lanville, founded at an unknown date, was attached around 1120 to the rule of the canons regular of Saint Augustine. It will remain conventual until its suppression in 1791. The buildings were largely in ruins in 1632 and the difficulties becoming greater and greater, the priory was united with the abbey of Sainte-Geneviève du Mont. The visit reports of 1636 and 1672 indicate that major work was carried out to raise the priory in the second half of the 17th century. The buildings located to the south of the church could be the lodgings of the prior or the chaplain. They include a main building for residential use, flanked by two north and south wings constituting the outbuildings, arranged around a closed courtyard. The partly modern north wing has retained some openings characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries. A long vaulted cellar of a broken cradle develops under the entire length of this wing. The south wing has semicircular openings alternating with small rectangular bays, no doubt from the 17th century. The rectangular main building opens, to the west, onto a terrace overlooking a pool spanned by a bridge-staircase. The house itself is built on a long barrel-shaped cellar with a basket handle. The church was fortified in the 15th century. In its primitive state, its nave was covered with three domes which collapsed and were replaced, in the 15th century, by ribbed vaults. In 1904, the presence of a channeled stream having weakened the foundations of the building, the facade collapsed.

Of the castle of Montignac, located in the town of Montignac-Charente, in Charente, only the keep remains. It is built on a terrace overlooking the Charente. Of the enclosure, there remains the gate with portcullis with two round towers at the top of an escarpment, the western part of the enclosure and a round tower.

Church from the second half of the 12th century. It has a simple plan: a single nave of three bays, lit by narrow windows and covered since 1885 with a barrel vault; an avant-chancel surmounted by a dome on pendants and a bell tower; a choir covered with a 15th century ribbed vault ending in a flat apse.

The church of Saint-Denis in Vars, with the castle to the north, formed an episcopal complex of which the bishop was the lord. Although the church is not mentioned until 1110, the possession of this seigneury by the bishop is attested as early as the 1030s. Probably in connection with the building of the castle to the north, the very sober facade of the church has been altered: one can still distinguish traces of the old bell tower with two arches, in the upper part. The bell tower built on the south arm of the transept is therefore posterior. The apse has the particularity of having been raised in order to fortify it and to fit various defensive elements (heated room, bay windows with cushions, access to gateways, etc.)