Angles-sur-l'Anglin

Angles-sur-l'Anglin

Travel guide and tourist information

Travel guide and tourist information

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION			CLOSEST TOWNS
Town	Angles-sur-l'Anglin		Vicq-sur-Gartempe at 3.6 km (4 min)
Insee code	86004		Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé at 4.3 km (6 min)
Postcode	86260		Lurais at 5.5 km (6 min)
Latitude	46.6952650		Preuilly-la-Ville at 7.5 km (9 min)
Longitude	0.8831320		Tournon-Saint-Martin at 7.6 km (8 min)
Altitude	From 63 to 139 meters		Tournon-Saint-Pierre at 8.1 km (9 min)
Surface	14.75 km²		Néons-sur-Creuse at 8.7 km (9 min)
Population	391 inhabitants		Fontgombault at 9.8 km (10 min)
Density	26 inhabitants/km²		La Bussière at 10.3 km (12 min)
National labels			Sauzelles at 10.5 km (10 min)
Chief town	Poitiers (at 50 km, 53 min)		Mérigny at 10.7 km (11 min)
Department	Vienne		Pleumartin at 12 km (13 min)
Region	Poitou-Charentes		Search another town

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• This quiet little village and fascinating, everything invites you to stroll and dream will lead us on paths of history. The story of Angles-sur-l'Anglin or rather the city Angles-sur-l'Anglin if we respect the past, is certainly related to that of the region Poitou, but it does not seem to have less forged a unique identity to which its inhabitants are attached. Located on the borders of Poitou, Touraine and Berry, Angles has through the centuries to take its location to be both a compendium of different cultures and an entity exception.
• Origins: The town's origins that seem more controversial. Indeed, the modern tourist guides emphasize the thesis that would Englishman owes its name, like England, a Germanic people came from Schleswig, now the German Land of the northern plain: the Angles, whose descendants will be installed near the Anglin in the 7th century. Whatever the origins of Angles, well before our era that civilization left its footprints in Angles, not yet Angles? Indeed, the discovery of the prehistoric site of Magdalenian "Roc the Wizards, left us an amazing testimonial: Man lived there about 14 000 years on the banks of the Anglin. This site covers about fifty meters and comprises two distinct parts:

• Cave Taillebourg otherwise known cellar where Lucien Jacob discovered traces of Middle Magdalenian in 1927 by Mr. Rousseau. In 1947, Madame de Saint-Mathurin and Mrs. Garrod resume excavation of the basement and discovered a buffalo in relief;
• Shelter Bourdois where ladies of Saint-Mathurin Garrod and opened a cut that led to the discovery of the frieze carved Magdalenian.
• These discoveries and the interests that? They generate make Angles-sur-l'Anglin a Mecca of prehistory as well as Lascaux. But there are 14 000 years Angles-sur-l'Anglin did not exist as such, in fact, her story begins roughly with the second millennium.

• Story Angles revolves mainly around three monuments: the fortress, the chapel Holy Cross Chapel and St. Peter.

• The fortress probably chosen for its strategic position as are the cliffs of Angles (they dominate about 50 meters Valley Anglin), built the castle and is quoted as 1025. At the beginning of the fifteenth, two bishops undertook to revise the old fortress. Hugues de Combarel had built a dwelling house which already evokes the Renaissance. Concern accreditation begins to prevail over the interests of defense. It also modifies the old dungeon and sign his work by putting his arms carved: 3 coquille Saint-Jacques and a half wheel of a spur. The late 15th century marks the end of the heyday of the fortress. Pierre d'Amboise built the episcopal residence of Dissay is preferred to castellany Angles. To this succeeded the wars of religion, the sling. An expert on the condition of the fortress was commissioned in 1708. The parliament of Paris free the bishops of Poitiers their duty of care. In 1792, the fortress in ruins, is still confiscated and the municipality decides to use it as a stone quarry. But access is so difficult and demand very large, the ruins will be saved. The town bought the castle for one symbolic franc in 1986 and works to safeguard it from.
• The Chapel of St. Croix Isembert 1st to 1040 is behind the abbey. In 1088, Hugues de Lusignan 6th offers the abbey church at Saint-Cyprien de Poitiers. Around 1094, Pope Urban 2nd is replaced by Benedictine monks of the Canons Regular of the Order of St. Augustine, who held the abbey until the Revolution. But it was not until the late 12th century to see the rise abbey church which we see today the remains. Begun in 1175, it was consecrated in 1192, during the reign of Philip Augustus. The abbey soon enriched by many gifts and exchanges with the Mercy of God. But at the end of the Hundred Years War in 1428, resources have declined so drastically that it remains that 10 monks instead of 24. The abbots and one after another from the late 16th century, Holy Cross became an abbey in commendam. In 1768, at the end of the reign of Louis XV, there are still 5 monks. During the Revolution, the canons' houses are sold as national property to individuals, but the abbey remains state property and no one maintains. In ruins, the road angles to St. Pierre de Maille was built through the rubble in 1835.
• The Chapel of St. Peter: it was erected on the highest point of the cliff. Around the chapel remains a feudal mound are still visible today. The chapel is separated from the fortress by the "cut of the English" natural fissure managed by man. Legend has it that after the defeat by the English in Maupertuis's King John the Good, they are arrived at angles to capture the castle "in this passage in cutting the rock in one night to surprise the guards" . Similarly the constable had taken the castle by the English passage. The chapel was built in the 12th century. The current choir of the chapel has a shape in the quarter-circle as the choir of the chapel collapsed with the cliff in the 15th and was rebuilt roughly along the new edge. Currently, it houses many exhibits and is one of the views of the most remarkable corners.

• Also see: the men gather, paved pedestrian street which provides communication between the upper and lower town. It probably owes its name because the people gathered water at the bottom of this lane.
• The headband: the cellars at the arch served as a warehouse for salt traded at major fairs and Angles for salt smuggling. Its architecture is inspired by the Spanish cities (Zaragoza).

• Monuments:

• The Chapel of St. Peter which hosts numerous summer exhibitions.
• The Chapel of St. Croix.
• The Church of St. Martin.
• The Episcopal fortress open from April to September.

• The Interpretation Centre "Roc the Sorcerers"

• The frieze of the "Roc-aux-Stone", sculpted, carved and painted 15,000 years ago, exposed in the light of the history of arts and sciences.
• Today, a center devoted to it to allow everyone to discover this masterpiece of prehistoric times, almost unique, the experts see as a "Lascaux sculpture.
• The frieze, which lasted for more than 20 meters, is restored in 3-D scale. It is surrounded by a virtual installation at once dreamlike and teaching: an Art out of Time ", which invites everyone to form his own idea of the universe of the first sculptors of the world, who lived there ago 15 000 years.

• Also discover the village artisans.
• Discover the five municipal hiking circuits (map available at the Tourist Office).
• The guided tour of the village, contact the tourist office at +33 5 49 48 86 87 or info@anglessuranglin.com

• The weekend of Easter: Spring Flea Market.
• In June: Guinguette the waterfront. Evening fried mussels with orchestra.
• July: Medieval Festival of Crafts.
• In August: Fireworks display. Big fireworks of fame, with burning of the castle ruins and the Valley of the Anglin.
• In August: Festival of Books and You in the streets and alleys. A traditional appointment and waited for all book lovers.
• September: Fall Flea Market.

Stroller-lecturer, accompanied by his donkey, offering rides Discovery Environment from La Roche-Posay.

The Mill		Castle
Fortress Episcopal Angles-sur-l'Anglin		At the corner of the fortress
View the garden		The cross Hosannière
Friesland Magdalenian of the Roc Wizards		View from the Horn Hutch
The Mill		The trench of the English
The hoop		the picturesque Lane Gather

Monday 13 February Day Night Min. -11°C - Max. -1°C

Tuesday 14 February Day Night Min. -1°C - Max. 3°C

Wednesday 15 February Day Night Min. -2°C - Max. 5°C

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