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Les Halles de Cozes – Saint-Pierre Church of Cozes loop from Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille
RoutesFranceNew AquitaineSaintesSaint-Simon-De-Pellouaille
Les Halles de Cozes – Saint-Pierre Church of Cozes loop from Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille
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Les Halles de Cozes – Saint-Pierre Church of Cozes loop from Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille
02:05
34.4km
160m
Gravel riding
Moderate gravel ride. Good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: August 25, 2026
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4.94 km
Church of Montpellier-de-Médillan
Highlight • Religious Site
The church, which dates back to the 12th century, includes a nave and two side chapels connected to the nave and between them by large pointed arch bays. The set features three different styles.
The facade dates from the 13th century with a portal with four archivolts and two side niches.
On the first floor, a colonnade supports the arches resting on sculpted capitals.
The third bay of the nave dates back to the 12th century.
Above rises the square bell tower pierced on each side by two windows divided by mullioned columns.
The fourth bay was rebuilt recently and is covered with plaster vaults.
The two chapels mark the 15th century.
The frame seems to indicate that the building was built in the 12th century, then demolished in a troubled time before being rebuilt in the style of the 13th century at a later time.
The sculptures on the front door are recent.
The church is open during working hours.
The facade dates from the 13th century with a portal with four archivolts and two side niches.
On the first floor, a colonnade supports the arches resting on sculpted capitals.
The third bay of the nave dates back to the 12th century.
Above rises the square bell tower pierced on each side by two windows divided by mullioned columns.
The fourth bay was rebuilt recently and is covered with plaster vaults.
The two chapels mark the 15th century.
The frame seems to indicate that the building was built in the 12th century, then demolished in a troubled time before being rebuilt in the style of the 13th century at a later time.
The sculptures on the front door are recent.
The church is open during working hours.
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9.38 km
Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens Church of Saintonge
Highlight • Religious Site
The Saint-Pierre-ès-Liens church:
From the novel to the novel, there is only one step here and not only in the text!
This church holds a special place in the Saintonge Romanesque landscape because it is built on the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa.
The first bay of the choir, which carries the bell tower, reuses part of the walls of this villa and we can still observe fragments of a hypocaust, composed of an octagonal-shaped swimming pool.
The church contains the oldest elements still visible in the religious buildings of Saintonge with masonry made of small regular rubble stones.
Its classic plan has a two-bay nave and a pointed cradle vaulted transept. The choir bay is covered with a dome called “barlongue sur trompes”.
The apse is decorated with an arcade which has beautiful sculpted capitals: a scene of the Holy Women at the Tomb; remains of archaic Romanesque sculpture which reveal lion tamers, a bow and falcon hunting scene.
The front choir is a very old part of the building, dating from the 10th or 11th century, where magnificent Carolingian capitals decorated with fine arabesques remain.
The church has two facades to the West and the South. Note the very curious series of modillions on the western facade, cubic in design.
From the novel to the novel, there is only one step here and not only in the text!
This church holds a special place in the Saintonge Romanesque landscape because it is built on the remains of a Gallo-Roman villa.
The first bay of the choir, which carries the bell tower, reuses part of the walls of this villa and we can still observe fragments of a hypocaust, composed of an octagonal-shaped swimming pool.
The church contains the oldest elements still visible in the religious buildings of Saintonge with masonry made of small regular rubble stones.
Its classic plan has a two-bay nave and a pointed cradle vaulted transept. The choir bay is covered with a dome called “barlongue sur trompes”.
The apse is decorated with an arcade which has beautiful sculpted capitals: a scene of the Holy Women at the Tomb; remains of archaic Romanesque sculpture which reveal lion tamers, a bow and falcon hunting scene.
The front choir is a very old part of the building, dating from the 10th or 11th century, where magnificent Carolingian capitals decorated with fine arabesques remain.
The church has two facades to the West and the South. Note the very curious series of modillions on the western facade, cubic in design.
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16.8 km
Les Halles de Cozes
Highlight • Monument
evidence of the past.
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17.0 km
Saint-Pierre Church of Cozes
Highlight • Religious Site
The project: Save the medieval church of Cozes
Support this restoration project for the Saint-Pierre church in Cozes, built from the 12th century onwards. Listed as a historic monument, this building is in a worrying state of preservation. In 2018, the building, which was suffering from a sagging roof and water infiltration, was closed; the rehabilitation work, estimated at €2.5 million, will have to be spread over several years.
In 2020, the church was one of twelve sites in Nouvelle-Aquitaine selected to benefit from the Heritage Lottery and will receive €140,000 from Stéphane Bern's Heritage Mission.
A first round of urgent work on the south aisle took place in 2020-2021. Thanks to donations, this initial preservation work has raised over €61,000.
A second phase of work will begin in September 2024 for the restoration of the bell tower and staircase turret.
"I am delighted to welcome you back for our sponsorship campaign for the restoration of the Saint-Pierre de Cozes church. Since 2020, your generosity has enabled significant progress in the preservation of this historic monument. Thanks to the support of over 200 donors (individuals, local and national businesses, foundations, etc.), we have achieved exceptional work together.
After the first urgent phase of work carried out in 2020-2021 on the south aisle, we must now focus our efforts on the second and third phases of work relating to the exterior restoration of the bell tower and staircase turret." This work, estimated to last approximately 18 months, starting in September 2024, requires a total budget of €1,017,500.
Our goal is to raise €100,000 in donations to supplement local government grants and ensure the completion of this crucial work.
I would also like to acknowledge the ephemeral works of art that have marked our sponsorship campaign: beach art by Jben, the Elise Bachour concert, the ice sculpture by the Lopez confectionery, and many other initiatives have attracted an ever-growing audience. The 7th grade students from Les Vielles Vignes middle school in Cozes also joined our cause: each of them created a drawing inspired by the fable of the Fox and the Stork to illustrate our fundraising campaign, and they created a large collective mural on the wall of their middle school, thus demonstrating their commitment to our heritage. As a local business, your participation is of paramount importance. By supporting our project, you strengthen your corporate social responsibility (CSR) and your civic image while developing a meaningful partnership with the municipality of Cozes.
Join us in this noble adventure that contributes to the preservation of our heritage, the local economy, and the attractiveness of our region!
With my sincere thanks.
Grazielle Bordage
Mayor of Cozes
Support this restoration project for the Saint-Pierre church in Cozes, built from the 12th century onwards. Listed as a historic monument, this building is in a worrying state of preservation. In 2018, the building, which was suffering from a sagging roof and water infiltration, was closed; the rehabilitation work, estimated at €2.5 million, will have to be spread over several years.
In 2020, the church was one of twelve sites in Nouvelle-Aquitaine selected to benefit from the Heritage Lottery and will receive €140,000 from Stéphane Bern's Heritage Mission.
A first round of urgent work on the south aisle took place in 2020-2021. Thanks to donations, this initial preservation work has raised over €61,000.
A second phase of work will begin in September 2024 for the restoration of the bell tower and staircase turret.
"I am delighted to welcome you back for our sponsorship campaign for the restoration of the Saint-Pierre de Cozes church. Since 2020, your generosity has enabled significant progress in the preservation of this historic monument. Thanks to the support of over 200 donors (individuals, local and national businesses, foundations, etc.), we have achieved exceptional work together.
After the first urgent phase of work carried out in 2020-2021 on the south aisle, we must now focus our efforts on the second and third phases of work relating to the exterior restoration of the bell tower and staircase turret." This work, estimated to last approximately 18 months, starting in September 2024, requires a total budget of €1,017,500.
Our goal is to raise €100,000 in donations to supplement local government grants and ensure the completion of this crucial work.
I would also like to acknowledge the ephemeral works of art that have marked our sponsorship campaign: beach art by Jben, the Elise Bachour concert, the ice sculpture by the Lopez confectionery, and many other initiatives have attracted an ever-growing audience. The 7th grade students from Les Vielles Vignes middle school in Cozes also joined our cause: each of them created a drawing inspired by the fable of the Fox and the Stork to illustrate our fundraising campaign, and they created a large collective mural on the wall of their middle school, thus demonstrating their commitment to our heritage. As a local business, your participation is of paramount importance. By supporting our project, you strengthen your corporate social responsibility (CSR) and your civic image while developing a meaningful partnership with the municipality of Cozes.
Join us in this noble adventure that contributes to the preservation of our heritage, the local economy, and the attractiveness of our region!
With my sincere thanks.
Grazielle Bordage
Mayor of Cozes
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17.3 km
Capital of the Fable of the Fox and the Stork – Saint-Pierre Church of Cozes
Highlight • Religious Site
Originally dependent on the Augustan abbey of Mortagne-sur-Gironde, the church of Saint-Pierre de Cozes is now part of a group of bell towers: "Notre Dame de l'Estuaire".
This building erected in the 12th century was greatly altered over the following centuries: collapses, fires, destructions, reconstructions and enlargements followed one another, juxtaposing styles.
This building erected in the 12th century was greatly altered over the following centuries: collapses, fires, destructions, reconstructions and enlargements followed one another, juxtaposing styles.
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17.8 km
Repair and inflation center :)
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It can always come in handy ...... for those who don't have a hand pump or a battery-powered inflator!!!
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21.0 km
Bois de Chenelles
Forest
8
30.5 km
Church rebuilt from burnt stone
Highlight • Other
The Saint-Pierre church dating from the 13th & 15th centuries, was rebuilt with calcined stones from a 1st building which was destroyed by fire.
It is a church of relatively simple design consisting of a nave flanked by two aisles pierced with large windows.
A triplet illuminates the sanctuary with a flat apse. It is barrel vaulted and embellished with a 12th century chapel.
The facade is sober and is pierced by an ogival door which is decorated with two tori. It ends in gable.
The square bell tower, squat and massive, on two levels, gives a certain austerity to the building.
Inside, on the north wall of the nave, hangs a painting by Bragny (oil on canvas from the 17th century).
It is a church of relatively simple design consisting of a nave flanked by two aisles pierced with large windows.
A triplet illuminates the sanctuary with a flat apse. It is barrel vaulted and embellished with a 12th century chapel.
The facade is sober and is pierced by an ogival door which is decorated with two tori. It ends in gable.
The square bell tower, squat and massive, on two levels, gives a certain austerity to the building.
Inside, on the north wall of the nave, hangs a painting by Bragny (oil on canvas from the 17th century).
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34.3 km
Saint-Laurent Church of Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille
Highlight • Religious Site
Parish church dedicated to Saint Lawrence, built in the 12th century. It opens with a semicircular doorway with three archivolts resting on sculpted capitals that have lost their columns. The doorway was narrowed by two jambs and an archivolt with prismatic moldings from the 15th or 16th century. The corners of the facade are each buttressed by a group of three large engaged columns, surmounted from the first entablature by five smaller columns bearing capitals decorated with vegetal motifs. Above the first entablature is a row of seven ogival openings, the columns of which have disappeared. A pediment with two ramps from the 17th century.
Its facade is very interesting. A deep and vast portal with four arches occupies the entire ground floor. The archivolts are decorated with geometric motifs. On the first floor, a beautiful Romanesque arcading unfolds its seven arches supported by slender columns. A blunt gable pierced by a semicircular window and crossed by a cornice supported by modifications completes it.
The square bell tower is placed along the north wall. It is adorned, between the first and second entablatures, on the west and north faces, with three arcading. Above the second entablature, it takes an octagonal shape supported by a sloped section. Amputated of its upper part, it has retained from the 12th century only its base, its square first floor with false semicircular windows, and its staircase tower is also square. The octagonal second floor, with its pointed roof, was rebuilt in the 17th century.
The nave has three bays separated by strong half-engaged columns, but only the left wall survives from the original building. It is pierced by three undecorated Romanesque splayed windows; the semicircular vault is made of lightweight materials. A few Romanesque arches frame the false square, which, through a wide bay on the left, connects to the base of the bell tower. This space, covered by an octagonal dome on squinches, forms a porch.
The apse with a straight wall, vaulted like the preceding bay and the nave, is lit by three modern bare windows. To the left, a slightly broken bay opens onto a rectangular chapel that follows the porch located under the bell tower. This chapel, also with a flat chevet, is lit by an axial window, unsculpted on the interior but beautifully decorated on the exterior.
The church of Saint-Simon de Pellouaille suffered severe attacks during the Wars of Religion, attacks attested by traces of fire still visible at the base of the bell tower. In the 16th century, it lost its south wall, its apse, and the crown of its bell tower.
In the nave, one can see a well-made painting and a curious stone font. Near the south wall, eight ancient burials were discovered at the beginning of the present century.
The church was listed as a Historic Monument on September 19, 1923.
Its facade is very interesting. A deep and vast portal with four arches occupies the entire ground floor. The archivolts are decorated with geometric motifs. On the first floor, a beautiful Romanesque arcading unfolds its seven arches supported by slender columns. A blunt gable pierced by a semicircular window and crossed by a cornice supported by modifications completes it.
The square bell tower is placed along the north wall. It is adorned, between the first and second entablatures, on the west and north faces, with three arcading. Above the second entablature, it takes an octagonal shape supported by a sloped section. Amputated of its upper part, it has retained from the 12th century only its base, its square first floor with false semicircular windows, and its staircase tower is also square. The octagonal second floor, with its pointed roof, was rebuilt in the 17th century.
The nave has three bays separated by strong half-engaged columns, but only the left wall survives from the original building. It is pierced by three undecorated Romanesque splayed windows; the semicircular vault is made of lightweight materials. A few Romanesque arches frame the false square, which, through a wide bay on the left, connects to the base of the bell tower. This space, covered by an octagonal dome on squinches, forms a porch.
The apse with a straight wall, vaulted like the preceding bay and the nave, is lit by three modern bare windows. To the left, a slightly broken bay opens onto a rectangular chapel that follows the porch located under the bell tower. This chapel, also with a flat chevet, is lit by an axial window, unsculpted on the interior but beautifully decorated on the exterior.
The church of Saint-Simon de Pellouaille suffered severe attacks during the Wars of Religion, attacks attested by traces of fire still visible at the base of the bell tower. In the 16th century, it lost its south wall, its apse, and the crown of its bell tower.
In the nave, one can see a well-made painting and a curious stone font. Near the south wall, eight ancient burials were discovered at the beginning of the present century.
The church was listed as a Historic Monument on September 19, 1923.
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34.4 km
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Parking
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22.3 km
9.70 km
2.26 km
208 m
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14.1 km
10.9 km
8.89 km
386 m
175 m
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