In Villars, it is the Saint-Jacques church that welcomes you, it was erected on a former monastery. In the Middle Ages, Villars housed a priory dependent on the arch-priest of Gurat.
Mainly in the 12th and 13th centuries, Villars was on the eastern branch of a north-south variant of the Via Turonensis, a pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela that passed through the Charente by Nanteuil-en-Vallée, Saint-Amant- Of-Boixe, Angoulême, Dirac, Villebois-Lavalette, Gurat and Aubeterre. During renovations excavations were carried out by the Group of Archaeological and Historical Research Tolère (objects found).
