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| Stretching over nearly 100,000 hectares, from the Baie de l’Aiguillon to Niort, the Poitevin Marsh is the second largest wetland of France. Located in the North of Charente-Maritime, the Poitevin Marsh also extends into Les Deux-Sèvres and Vendée. |
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 Green Venice
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The Sèvre Niortaise is the main waterway that feeds the Poitevin Marsh. In the middle of the Marsh a large number of channels have been constructed - in fact the Marsh is artificial, created by human activity over the centuries, with works that made it possible to regulate the water level, limit flooding and extend cultivatable land and canals that facilitated trade and commerce. In the middle of this vast network is Venise Verte (Green Venice). A preserved site where nature reigns. |
An interregional nature park |
A leading tourist site that was initially the nature park of the Poitevin Marsh in 1976, the Poitevin Marsh became an interregional park in 1996. The natural, ethnographical and landscape heritage is thus preserved, and the Marsh is the subject of a huge public awareness program. A number of scientific research projects have also been conducted here.
It is an exceptional ecosystem, where herons, otters, Poitevin goats and marsh cows live side by side, to discover on board one of the many ‘plates’ (flat-bottomed boats) that glide up and down this extraordinary wetland.
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