What to See
» What to SeeCognac and the angels
The town itself as much as its famous eau-de-vie make Cognac definitely worth visiting. François 1er was born there...
The lakes of the Upper Charente
The lakes of the Upper Charente... a land of hedged fields, of rolling countryside covered with coppices of chestnut, forests of oak and cool streams...
Gardens galore
Ancient varieties of vegetables, flowers, fruits, simple square plots in medieval gardens, the poetry and friendship of weeds running riot... quick, to the gardens !
Charm of the villages
The villages in the Charente have the charm of the soil on which they stand : ochre or red clay, golden granite, white limestone...
Angoulême, capital of the comic strip
Angoulême, a town of art and history, on every corner its architectural heritage can be seen but not just that.
Sites and curiosities
At the thermal baths at Chassenon, Gaulois and Romans took to the water. In Aubeterre, around the year one thousand AD, Christians carved out a church in the heart of the cliff...
The mills
It was the quality of the water in the Charente which led to the expansion of paper and grain mills...