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Bike loop from Royan
01:39
23.8km
120m
Cycling
Hard bike ride. Great for any fitness level. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: August 24, 2026
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Start point
Bus stop
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5.46 km
Medieval Garden of Place de la Mairie
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The work of garden lovers and the financial help of sponsors
make it possible to offer
a free visit throughout the year.
It is for everyone a privileged, sheltered place, where one tries according to one’s own aspirations to reestablish the first communion between oneself and nature.
In the Middle Ages, the garden has a utilitarian role. It is the place where plants are cultivated that ensure the maintenance of life by providing the basis of remedies and food.
It is possible to get an idea of medieval gardens thanks to manuscripts containing ancient treaties, to testimonies of images illustrating texts, to writings.
Our garden was created near the church (with a Romanesque bell tower at the foot of which an elegant tripartite façade and a Gothic nave have been rebuilt), thanks to a group of passionate amateurs who were inspired by the achievements and writings of historians, ethnobotanists, horticulturists and landscapers.
It is composed of eight raised beds delimited by “plessis” (woven larch slats that replaced the chestnut stems), filled with earth and which form courtyards.
These courtyards accommodate:
The vegetable garden: the hortus or horlulus (1 square for seeds and roots, 1 square for “potted plants”),
The garden of simples (medicinal): the herbularius (2 squares),
The aromatics (1 square),
The signature and toxic plants (1 square),
The textile and dye plants (1 square),
The cosmetic plants and the garden of Mary (1 square).
These eight squares surround the ninth, thus evoking the shape of a cross whose center is occupied by an octagonal fountain.
A place is reserved for pilgrim gourds.
We have planted a rose garden, set up a rest area in the shade of the acacias and created a space reserved for cereals.
The orchard, vividarius, which adjoins it is planted with trees that are also useful: nourishing or producing materials essential to everyday life
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A former "house of prayer
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In 1828, the temple, which had become dilapidated, was partly remodeled. The work was entrusted to the architect Daniel Marrion and the contractor René Janin.
The new place of worship was used regularly until the middle of the 20th century, which led to the construction of a Protestant cemetery near the temple. Enclosed by walls built in 1862 in stones from Bourg (Gironde), Thénac and Saujon (Charente-Maritime), according to a project by Théophile Sauvion, manager of the Bridges and Roads Department, there are many ancient funerary monuments there, although it is still in service today. In 1996, the temple was acquired by the municipality, which took charge of its restoration, before entrusting it in 2001 to the presbytery council of the reformed church of Royan. Since then, the latter has made it available to the New Alliance church, neo-charismatic, which celebrates its Sunday services there.
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23.8 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
9.41 km
8.10 km
5.97 km
324 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
10.9 km
7.18 km
4.97 km
598 m
197 m
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