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New Aquitaine
Saintes
Crazannes

Porche de Pont l'Abbé – Saint-Vivien Church in Geay loop from Crazannes

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Road cycling routes
France
New Aquitaine
Saintes
Crazannes

Porche de Pont l'Abbé – Saint-Vivien Church in Geay loop from Crazannes

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Porche de Pont l'Abbé – Saint-Vivien Church in Geay loop from Crazannes

02:12

54.0km

290m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: July 9, 2026

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1

1.04 km

Saint-Pierre Church of Aulnay

Highlight • Religious Site

2

8.89 km

Saint-Porchaire Church

Highlight • Religious Site

Le flanc sud de cet édifice gothique est rythmé d'une belle succession de volumes que composent une chapelle, la tourelle d'escalier, la tour du clocher, la sacristie et plusieurs contreforts. Deux périodes de construction se distinguent nettement sur cette église. Sur la façade occidentale, la tradition romane est encore nettement visible : la composition étirée en hauteur reprend encore les schémas du XIIe siècle.
Le dédoublement des arcades du rez-de-chaussée représente cependant un parti original. Sur le mur sud, l'arcade de la première travée avec la corniche à modillons participent du même esprit. Cette première travée témoigne en fait d'un édifice de la fin du XIIe ou du début du XIIIe siècle.
La première croisée d'ogives se distingue d'ailleurs nettement des suivantes par le profil de ses nervures et la structure de ses supports, ainsi que par ses chapiteaux sculptés qui, comme ceux de la façade, sont d'esprit roman. Tout ce qui se trouve à l'est de cette première travée est le fruit d'un reconstruction du XVe siècle, période du gothique flamboyant.
Quelques éléments du 12e siècle subsistent dans la première travée mais le reste de l'édifice date du 15e siècle. La nef est flanquée, du côté sud, d'une petite chapelle abritant les fonts baptismaux et d'un clocher carré. Elle se termine par un chevet plat, percé d'une grande verrière à meneaux et à réseau flamboyant. L'une des chapelles du côté sud supporte le clocher carré, remanié au 15e siècle. La façade occidentale, surmontée de deux étages d'arcatures, date du 12e siècle mais sa porte a été remaniée au 15e. Les seules parties sculptées sont les chapiteaux de la façade et la frise à métopes et modillons du 12e siècle, de la première travée, côté sud.
Plusieurs traits permettent d'identifier ce style : à l'extérieur, le profil caractéristique des moulures, les remplages (réseaux de pierre) des fenêtres, le pignon à fleuron de la chapelle latérale, les gargouilles et, à l'intérieur, les voûtes à liernes (nervures s'inscrivant dans le creux des voûtains) dont les ogives pénètrent dans les supports sans l'intermédiaire de chapiteaux, les bases prismatiques complexes et la relative nudité des parois.
A l'intérieur : bel autel et retable à baldaquin du XIXe siècle ; traces d'un décor peint néo-gothique et caveau des seigneurs de la Roche Courbon du XVIIe siècle à 1711, dans le chœur.

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Bois des Ajoncs

Forest

13.8 km

Bois du Hou

Forest

5

15.7 km

Essards

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6

20.0 km

Saint-Nazaire Church

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The interest aroused by this church is concentrated on its façade. It has on the ground floor a semicircular portal framed by two false doors of the same height, with pointed arches. On the large arcade of the vast central window which intersects the cornice develops the allegory of the Wise Virgins and the Foolish Virgins. Groups of columns separate the windows, others furnish the extremities of the facade. Above, a cornice decorated with scrolls and foliage rests on highly ornate corbels.

Founded in the 2nd half of the 12th century, the current church was built in 2 stages: first the transept, surmounted by a bell tower, and then the choir. Then, towards the end of the 2nd ½ of the 12th century, the nave was barrel-vaulted and the western facade built.

The primitive chevet was ½ circular. It was rebuilt in the 17th century, a flat Gothic wall, pierced by an ogival window, replacing the original apse.

From the entrance, there is a massive wall pierced by a high and narrow door which, by 5 steps, reaches the nave. This narthex is lit by 2 semicircular windows. It is covered at great height with a starry ribbed vault.
The nave comprises six bays, the first 3 vaulted in warhead with sculpted keys; the following 3, less high, in a broken cradle.

In the 2nd half of the 15th century, following the Hundred Years War, a large part of the building was taken over. The left wall has been replaced by a series of 5 large smooth columns, without capitals
Lit by 5 pointed arch windows, this 2nd nave also has its own entrance door to the west and on a landing preceded by several steps.

Defensive elements were added to the south wall of the nave (walkway, crenellations, loopholes...), and a new bell tower was built above the 1st bay of the nave.
This work was completed in the 17th century, for the completion of the vaults of the 1st spans of the nave, and for that of the bell tower, covered with a hull roof.

Inside, the south wall of the nave is still pierced with semicircular bays framed by small columns with carved capitals.
As for the western facade, it presents the usual structure of the Romanesque facades of the region. Made up of 3 arcades on each of the 2 levels, like a Roman triumphal arch.

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31.7 km

Porche de Pont l'Abbé

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These are two cylindrical towers forming one of the 3 old gates of the fortified city and which included an iron portcullis closing the entrance. There were also battlements and machicolations which were destroyed: it is therefore today a truncated building.

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48.2 km

Saint-Vivien Church in Geay

Highlight • Religious Site

The church was built in Romanesque style in the 12th century. It consists of a single nave with four bays, which can be entered via a landing and several steps. It is decorated with three tiers of semicircular arches separated by columnar buttresses (Musee du Patrimoine de France).

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53.9 km

The Stone Trails – The Stone of Crazannes

Highlight • Natural Monument

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54.0 km

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Way Types & Surfaces

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53.1 km

721 m

201 m

< 100 m

Surfaces

51.1 km

2.97 km

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