Located 20 kilometers south of Angers and 40 km from Cholet in the heart of the Coteaux du Layon, Beaulieu is a village of 1461 inhabitants.
The village stretches along the main street. On both sides, interesting buildings, beautiful houses, gardens and vineyards attract the attention of the visitor.
The inhabitants are Beaulieu-sur-Layon Belloquoises and Belloquois.
Any Layon Valley has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The dolmen, consisting of five stones, is there to testify and the axes and flint tools found in the municipal area. From 11th to 17th century, the land of Beaulieu formed with the town of a large estate of the Counts of Anjou Fulk-Nera that offered the abbey Ronceray to 1038.
Assured of the protection of religious authorities, the area became populated and developed to the point quickly (twelfth century), Chapel of Notre-Dame de Beaulieu was built. Parish in 1768, the chapel took the name of the parish church. The revolution and wars of Vendee left their footprints on the floor communal.
Crossed the bridge, witnessed the battle of September 19, 1793 and Cady where trenches were buried 3000 "blue" crushed by the Vendée, are here to commemorate that time. The two cholera epidemics of 1834 and 1849 were the last real suffering that the town had to endure. Beginning in 1843, began building a new church and that many houses to give the current configuration of the borough.
