20-25 minutes from Sion campsite
Le Grand défi – Saint Julien des Landes
Nature leisure park offering activities for the whole family from 2 years upwards: Accrobranche, Aquapark, Paintball, Galactic laser, Disc’golf, orientation, Pony rides, Quick jump, Explor’game…
Only 30 minutes from the Sion campsite, enjoy a family day out!
Our partner offers a discount on presentation of your bracelet at the park reception.
Ecomusée Le Daviaud – La Barre de Monts
In the open air, at the bend of a path, you’ll discover a natural environment rich in both flora and fauna. The eco-museum is housed in traditional buildings and features exhibitions on the environment and popular arts and traditions. Discover the natural and human history of the Marais Breton Vendéen on a 15-hectare site. You’ll find a working salt marsh (June to September), a farm and its animals, a vegetable garden and an ornithological observatory. Length of visit: 2 hours.
Tel: 02 51 93 84 84
Le Jardin du Vent – Notre Dame de Monts
At the foot of a curious windmill topped with sails, hides an original garden that offers visitors an artistic, amusing and instructive walk… Animated sculptures, wind games, legends and meteorological indications punctuate this journey with surprises around a wind rose and a green theater.
In July and August, “kite” workshops are offered for children.
Tel: 02 28 11 26 43
Bourrine à Rosalie – Sallertaine
A habitat in the Sallertaine marshes, built with local materials (earth, stones, reeds) that becomes an island or a peninsula depending on the whims of winter. Where people stop for a moment to talk about another time… Where the inhabitants live between water and wind, you’ll learn the “story” of these people who are said to have no “story”…
Tel: 02 51 49 43 60 or 06 08 52 59 39
Le Moulin de Rairé – Sallertaine
Built in 1555, this seigniorial edifice is the only mill in France that has never stopped turning with the wind since its construction. Rejecting all folklore, the Burgaud family, descendants of a long line of flour-makers, continue to make this fascinating machine work in accordance with the techniques of yesteryear.
The millers invite you to take part in a guided tour of this astonishingly ingenious historic monument.
Specialities: organic wheat and buckwheat flours, crêpes, fine cookies, local produce…
Tel: 02 51 35 51 82
Ile aux Jeux – Challans
An indoor amusement park for all children, just a stone’s throw from the shops in Challans!!!
800 m² of inflatable games, trampoline, baby area, tubular games, tricycles, ball cannons…
Tel: 02 51 54 47 68
Vélo Rail – Commequiers
Enjoy a ride in the countryside with family or friends (2 to 4 people per carriage), on 10 km of old railroad track. That’s what the Vélo Rail offers you.
You’ll discover a specific flora, cross the river La Vie, pass through the old railway station of Saint Maixent sur Vie…
The velo-rail’s operating mode is extremely simple: all you have to do is pedal for the track to move forward. Reservations essential all year round. Departure and arrival at Commequiers.
Tel: 02 51 54 79 99
Château d’Apremont
This primitive fortified castle probably dates back to the 13th century and was built on a rocky promontory overlooking the Vallée de la Vie. Today’s two magnificent towers were part of a Renaissance château built in the first half of the 16th century by Philippe Chabot de Brion, Admiral of France and friend of King François1st, on the site of part of the medieval fortress.
Tel: 02 51 55 73 66
Le Moulin des Gourmands – St Révérend
The Moulin du Père Aristide Praud was built in 1842. It was in operation until 1930, and was restored in 1997.
From the cereal field, join the miller to discover the working windmill, then be welcomed by the baker in his wood-fired oven.
Enjoy galettes, crêpes and pizzas at the crêperie pizzeria, or picnic with bread and local produce from the bakery in the park, where donkeys and games for children await you.
Tel: 02 51 60 16 72
Vendée Miniature – Brétignolles sur Mer
The little Vendée of yesteryear brought to life with a sound and light show featuring 650 characters. Discover this fairytale world in 1/10th scale, with its carts, trades, stone houses, water mill, the town center dominated by its imposing 3-meter-high church and its shops. You’ll come across a steam locomotive as it rounds the windmill. 650 characters bring this village to life in the colors of the Vendée.
Tel: 02 51 22 47 50
45 minutes from the 3-star campsite
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Le Potager Extraordinaire – La Mothe Achard
In a park of over one hectare, the Potager Extraordinaire de la Mothe-Achard invites visitors to discover the magic of cucurbits and unusual plants. The extraordinary here lies in the presentation of over a thousand plants, extravagant in their shape, smell, taste, and the strategy they develop for their defense or reproduction.
The aim is not to subjugate nature in grandiose stagings, but to highlight natural curiosities, particularly in the “Bizarretum” or through the fun trail “Cherchez la petite bête…”, designed for young and old alike.
Tel / Fax: 02 51 46 67 83
L’Ile aux Papillons – Noirmoutier
In the heart of a greenhouse maintained at 26°C, stroll among hundreds of tropical butterflies from the 4 corners of the globe (Guyana, Kenya, Philippines, Madagascar) flying freely among tropical plants and flowers, in France’s largest butterfly greenhouse.
Discover the butterfly’s life cycle and witness their birth in the hatchery.
Tel: 02 51 35 77 88
Mini ville – Noirmoutier
Discover France’s traditional houses in scale models. Mini-Ville reproduces the rural habitat of our countryside by region. The “mini-houses” are reproduced using materials taken from their place of origin. Each one has required between 200 and 300 hours of work, and has been the subject of an in-depth study in each region: stone walls, roofs of tiles, slates, lauzes or thatch; differences in volume, colors from a rich and varied heritage.
Tel: 06 81 21 69 88
Maison de l’Ane – Beauvoir sur Mer
Come and discover this educational farm, located in the heart of the Marais Nord Vendéen (organic farming). You’ll see different breeds of donkeys and their colts, horses, mules and all the farm animals. A film on the birth and care of the donkeys completes the visit. You can enjoy hiking and carriage driving, and finish your visit with a donkey ride.
Tel: 02 51 93 85 70
or 06 15 45 11 63
Abbaye de l’Ile Chauvet – Bois de Cené
On an island in the middle of the marsh lies a 12th-century Benedictine abbey…
The Romanesque church, with its magnificent portal, opens onto the inner courtyard with its original well.
The monastery buildings and abbey church were damaged during the Hundred Years’ War in the 14th century and during the Wars of Religion in the 16th century.
This former monastery now boasts interesting architectural remains, including the Benedictine dormitory, kitchen, bread oven and cellar.
Tel: 02 51 68 13 19
Musée des Traditions Populaires – Olonne sur Mer
The Musée des Traditions Populaires is housed in a former schoolhouse dating from the late 19th century. Here you’ll discover collections of furniture, everyday objects, costumes and headdresses, and antique tools that bear witness to the daily craft and maritime life of the rural population of Pays d’Olonne in the early 20th century. You’ll also find the atmosphere of a classroom, with its old school books and violet-ink inkwells. Finally, the 14-18 war is evoked through moving objects collected by an Olonnais man over decades.
Tel/fax: 02 51 96 95 53
Les Salines – Les Sables d’Olonne
Immediate boarding for an extraordinary two-hour journey into the heart of the Olonne marshes.
Between sky and sea, salt and earth: the gentle boat trip takes you to the Jardin des Salines to meet the salt workers in their salt farms: discovery of the secret paths of the smugglers, a wellness and adventure trail, a rendezvous with the ancient land of salt, birdwatching.
Tel: 02 51 21 01 19
The Museum of Shellfish – Les Sables d’Olonne
A private collection of 45,000 tropical shellfish from all over the world, unique in Europe for the quality of the pieces on display and for the richness, diversity and number of shellfish in the showcase.
Also corals, naturalized crustaceans, sea urchins, sponges, starfish…
Tel: 02 51 23 50 00
Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte Croix – Les Sables d’Olonne
The museum, housed in a 17th-century building, is home to major collections of modern and contemporary art: the Gaston Chaissac and Victor Brauner collections. Also on display are works by Beckmann, Guston, Dubuffet, Lefranc, Magnelli, Marquet and Launois; contemporary artists include Baselitz, Combas, Desgranchamps, Fauguet and Hortala…
An attic room is devoted to the ethnography of sea bathing in the fishing port of Les Sables d’Olonne: boat portraits by Paul-Emile Pajot and shell paintings by Paul Amar and Hippolyte Massé.
Tel: 02 51 32 01 16