The best walks and hikes around Boussay

A small promontory offering a view of part of the valley. Climb it if you're passing by.

Clisson Castle has quite a story to tell: first an impregnable fortress overlooking the Sèvre, then a ducal residence, and finally a romantic ruin. In the 12th century, the powerful lordship of Clisson built this stone castle with highly elaborate defensive architectural systems: arrow slits, gun ports, and slits. A strategic point protecting the border of the Duchy of Brittany in the 15th century, it was abandoned by its owners from the second half of the 17th century onward before being burned down by Republican troops in 1793. But, beyond its grand history, this castle also has a more historic significance! In 1807, François-Frédéric Lemot, creator of the Garenne Lemot estate (a picturesque landscape located on the other side of the river), was captivated by these ruins and purchased it to turn it into an ornamental factory. The château was declared a historic monument in 1924, before being acquired by the Loire-Atlantique department in 1962. Today, visitors can visit it, take a guided tour, or simply experience its history. A stop on the Journey through the Vineyard, it's a stopover during the wine tourism tour of Nantes' wine country, featuring natural sites, heritage features, characterful villages, and unique cellars.

Beautiful view from the bridge over the Sèvre and the hamlet of "Vallée de Torfou". From the latter you can see the old tannery on the riverbank, and glimpse the church and some elements of the castle higher up.

A large medieval castle. It features themed shows, including siege engine demonstrations.

Also known as Moulin du Rouet, this recently restored mill on the Sèvre Nantaise River actually dates back to the 17th century. The eastbound path to Tiffauges is very passable by mountain bike/gravel bike. However, the path that heads west to La Penneraie is very steep and bumpy, and of little visual interest.

Another beautiful site on the Sèvre Nantaise, with the unusual feature this time: it's not only at the crossroads of three departments (LA, Vendée, and M&L), a rather common occurrence, but also of three former provinces: Brittany, Poitou, and Anjou. The crossroads is formed by the Sèvre on one side and its tributary, the Bon Débit, on the other. The inn of the same name looks very nice; in any case, the setting is splendid.

The chapel of Saint-Julien-le-Martyr existed in the Valley from the 15th century. On an old parchment dating back to the year 1436, it is written, in fact, that "near the bridges of Tiffauges, however in the lower parish of Torfou" is a chapel that the inhabitants "have newly built and erected, offered, for cause of devotion, in honor of God, of the blessed Mary his Mother, and of Saint Julien the Martyr". Two centuries later, in the year 1607, the accounts of the Fabrique de Torfou mention, among other expenses, a sum of "twenty-four sols" disbursed by it for the payment of "windows put in the chapel of the bridge of the Rinière*". Of this ancient building burned down by the Blues in 1791, only the walls remain. https://connaissancedetorfou.fr/index.php/la-commune-de-torfou/torfou-histoire/16-des-chapelles-meconnues-a-torfou

It spans the Sèvre Nantaise at a height of almost 30 metres, ensuring the passage of the Clisson Cholet railway line. The two roadways supported a wheat mill and a fulling mill, replaced by an electric plant in 1915.