Mervent

          One of the last posts I will devote to a brief description of the village next to Vouvant - I will talk about Mervent fairly briefly today. Therefore, let's start without extending.

          At the very beginning I would like to point out that I associate Mervent with my childhood mainly thanks to the zoo located there. Such a short anecdote - once we were there with the whole family and you could go to the farm with goats, so having bought a cup with popcorn, because with this popcorn we could feed animals there, one of the goats came as if to say hello and the other imperceptibly chewed a hole and in 3 seconds I lost all food for all animals, but at least the two goats have eaten, haha. I remember that I was very angry at them for this "prank", haha.

Interestingly, the zoo was established in the forest and covers an area of 7 hectares (no, I'm not so all-knowing, I had to borrow the number from Wikipedia). Unfortunately, photos of unruly goats, as well as other animals are lost in our family archive, only memories remain, but I will add to you the logo of this zoo here.

After an exhausting but very interesting trip around the Zoo, you should see at least a little more than the animals and the forest surrounding us in that place, although it must be admitted that the forest is beautiful and well-kept.

          From the buildings to see, I recommend to see the Castle de la Citardière. It still comes from the Renaissance, something beautiful and worth seeing. On one side it is surrounded by a river.

Then we have the vestige of the medieval castle on the edge of the forest of Mervent, as pretty as the Castle de la Citardière.

Then it's time to see something related to water, specifically bridges. There is no point in writing about them, in brackets I will add you information found about them.
1) The old Ouillères bridge (thirteenth century or fifteenth century)

2) The bridges of the Déluge and Diet (built under the power of Napoleon III)

This is the last point to catch and worth seeing, because there are few to see - the river and its huge dam.

          I think these are the most important points to see when you are in Mervent. As you can see it is a more natural place, zoo, forest, river, dam, rather than large amounts of monuments. Thanks to this, it is a rather quiet town, unless we are talking about a zoo - no, there are always a lot of people there, because everyone is fascinated by such a zoo. Although compared to the Poznań Zoo (120 hectares), the zoo in Mervent is just a part of the one from Poznań, but trust me in the area where I lived, there was no other Zoo, so nice with such a variety of animals, and even more built in the forest. This is another place that I recommend you see!