Vernoil-le-Fourrier is a town in Maine-et-Loire, in Pays de la Loire, 20 km north of Saumur, on the borders of the department of Indre-et-Loire.
The 33 km² of its territory belongs to the natural region Baugeois, a famous tea for its forest wealth.
The town located at the crossroads of Roman roads is developed in antiquity and became effective early Middle Ages a prosperous manor with a castle and a priory.
Over the centuries, woodworking and agriculture (milk, cereal and vegetable crops) provide the wealth of the small city, and this is still the case today. The village has about 1300 inhabitants has preserved a special heritage and showcases its environment particularly green. Near the course of the Loire, south, and great sights, a step Vernoil-le-Fourrier proves entirely made pleasant.
Several elements of heritage interest, for some protected as historical monuments, will mark a discovery of the village and its surroundings backed by a vast forest.
This is the case of the castle of Ville-au-Fourrier, whose foundations date from the thirteenth century and then a most imposing of Anjou. In the sixteenth century, the first speaker who reports to the defense and military architecture is complemented by a building more comfortable square Gothic base and a gallery was added in the seventeenth century at the wing "west". The castle is again modernized in the nineteenth century and evokes the area of Azay-le-Rideau. It still belongs to the descendants of places lords, in the Renaissance, it welcomed King Charles IX and his mother Catherine de Medici.
See then, the church Saint Vincent rebuilt in the twelfth century on the foundations of the first building. Note Romanesque foundations, murals of the thirteenth century while the transept and the vaults date from the fifteenth and were again revised in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Baptismal font of the fifteenth century and a font of the twelfth are housed inside the church, which also has a sepulchral chapel. Near the priory formerly occupied by Benedictine dates from the fifteenth century and mullioned windows, a carved door, a tower, a real nobility to give the building constructed in tufa stone.
Other sites to see in the town symbolizing the rich history of Vernoil, Castle Roche (XV) or the house of Poligny (XV) with a chapel.
In the same village or its area of activity, an oil mill in traditional skills (information at +33 2 41 51 51 26), a chocolate confectionery (Contact +33 6 62 36 27 45) or a ceramic workshop regularly offering internships or entertainment for the general public (attach +33 2 41 53 25 57) may constitute intensive steps, recreational and informative.
Place leisure and finally "nature" sports that are logically focused on the rich surrounding forest.
Besides a landscaped pond and a sports course belonging to the commune, many hiking trails on foot or mountain bike were plotted and signposted. Maps and information +33 2 41 51 51 13 ou +33 2 41 40 20 60. Some routes allow to reach the Loire and its hillsides planted lush vineyards...
Who would benefit from this green environment during horseback riding, join the equestrian center located in the municipality at +33 2 41 51 54 95.
