Top Things to do in Fontenay-le-Comte
Top Restaurants in Fontenay-le-Comte
The 10 Best Sights & Landmarks in Fontenay-le-Comte, Pays de la Loire
Discover the best top things to do in Fontenay-le-Comte, France including Nieul-sur-l'Autise, Chateau de Terre Neuve, Eglise Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Eglise Notre_dame De Menomblet, Tour Rivalland, Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Maison Jean Chevolleau, Centre Ancien, La Maison Billaud, Eglise Notre-Dame de Charzais.
Restaurants in Fontenay-le-Comte
1. Nieul-sur-l'Autise
2. Chateau de Terre Neuve
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4.0 based on 163 reviews
The castle was built for Nicolas Rapin in the late sixteenth century. The facade decorated with terracotta muses from the eighteenth century and the porch, illustrate the influences of the Poitevin nobility in the sixteenth up to the eitghteenth century. The lobby, with its many art objects: miniature, keys, weapons, eighteenth clothing, pottery ... and a magnificent sedan chair of the eighteenth. Then the eighteenth furniture and paintings by few well known masters. The large living room is dominated by a fireplace designed by Philibert Delorme, the carved and gilded wooden pediment was realized for the first of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme before Louis XIV in Chambord. The small living room is decorated with beautiful oak woodwork Louis XVI garlands. The dining room is under the aegis of Francis I, with two doors from Chambord opening onto a huge fireplace. Georges Simenon lived here between 1941 and 1943 and received his friends Jean Tissier and painter Maurice de Vlaminck.
3. Eglise Notre-Dame de l'Assomption
4. Eglise Notre_dame De Menomblet
5. Tour Rivalland
6. Eglise Saint-Jean-Baptiste
7. Maison Jean Chevolleau
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4.5 based on 3 reviews
8. Centre Ancien
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4.5 based on 2 reviews
9. La Maison Billaud
10. Eglise Notre-Dame de Charzais
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