Chasseneuil-du-Poitou is a commune in the department of Vienne, not far from the city of Poitiers, which owns the labels green holiday and tourist resort.
Full of charm, the city offers a perfect blend of modernity and tradition through a pleasant architecture and tourist facilities of great interest. Famous for hosting the famous Futuroscope park, the city of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou is definitely a family oriented and entertaining tourism.
Difficult to resist this town that continues to renew itself and to put forward a full and rich heritage interest. Fief of former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the city is popular with tourists who see it as a good way to enjoy the quiet, while being close to the most important sites to discover nearby.
Nature, architecture, culture, everything comes together for an exceptional stay in the heart of a region where life is good.
Dynamic and open to the world, the city of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou highlights its history and traditions to offer visitors an exceptional tourism.
Futuroscope is the main tourist attraction of the city of Chasseneuil-du-Poitou. Opened in 1987, it is an amusement park on the theme of technology, science, anticipation and recreation. A ten kilometers of Poitiers, it presents a set of attractions based on sensory approaches and image projections. Third leisure park in France in terms of annual attendance, Futuroscope is regularly renewed to offer all activities as impressive as each other.
Along the streets of the town, tourists can enjoy the traces of its history, as the town hall built in 1863, the mill Anguitard of the nineteenth century, or the beautiful San Clemente church built in the thirteenth century. Renovated and expanded in the nineteenth century, it has a beautiful stately chapel of the fifteenth century, and a statue of St. Peter Saint Braillou renamed for its miraculous powers to calm crying children.
Chasseneuil-du-Poitou also presents its New Bridge nineteenth century or the Roman Bridge.
Old house with typical architecture of the region, the home of this past nine thematic rooms in which are distributed collections of everyday objects, domestic or professional. One can admire in particular a school reconstruction 1940s, forging, laundry room or chapel. Small museum of art and popular traditions of old home regularly presents temporary exhibitions and collections of priestly objects, poitevins clothing or antique toys.
Natural Heritage Chasseneuil-du-Poitou not lacking more interest. Surrounded by islands that float on the water, the city is a green island including the Mill, Green Island is today a center of the town festivities, marshes and numerous walks, or the garden of Europe and twenty-seven trees from twenty-seven countries in the European community.
Do not miss, the walks in the plains of Mirebalais and Neuvillois classified as natural areas of ecological interest, flora and fauna.
Chasseneuil-du-Poitou offers regular cultural and sports activities to enliven the city center and its green spaces.
The Chasseneuil-du-Poitou market takes place all year, on Thursday morning. A Christmas market is also proposed in December.
Every summer, the town hosts its Festival The Comédiales. The program of this exceptional event, performances of theater and other cultural events all over the city.
In July and August: canoe trips on the night Clain information at +33 6 81 53 02 47.
Three Tuesdays during the month of July: Tuesdays Musical, musical and entertaining evenings, with picnic and concert, from 19h to 22h on the square of the Church.
"Chasseneuil a summer evening" at the Théâtre de Verdure: programming available on the festival committee's website.
The last weekend of August: Flea market / garage sale from 8h to 18h at Ribaudière Park.
Then at 21:30, torchlight from the park Ribaudière followed by fireworks at 22h in Exhibit Cardinals.
