Royan Beach – Pisany Market Halls loop from Saint-Georges-de-Didonne
Royan Beach – Pisany Market Halls loop from Saint-Georges-de-Didonne
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Royan Beach – Pisany Market Halls loop from Saint-Georges-de-Didonne
03:50
94.8km
490m
Road cycling
Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: August 27, 2026
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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1.16 km
Côte de Beauté Cycle Path – Saint-Georges Beach
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13.2 km
Bike path with a view of the Talmont church
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19.5 km
Saint-Georges-de-Didonne Beach
Highlight (Segment) • Beach
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26.4 km
Royan Main Beach
Highlight (Segment) • Other
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28.7 km
Royan Beach
Highlight • Beach
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32.6 km
Rétention RP
Lake
49.4 km
Saint-Romain Church of Saint-Romain-de-Benet
Highlight • Religious Site
This rather atypical-looking building is the result of a multitude of reconstructions spread over nearly 8 centuries. If the first stone of the sanctuary was laid in the 12th century (the groups of columns bear carved capitals of 12th century invoice), this one will be very damaged following a fire, which occurred at the end of the Middle Ages during the Wars of Religion. Rebuilt economically, it was decided, around the 17th century, to restore it.
Ransacked in 1793, victim of revolutionary looting, the church remained under construction for a large part of the 19th century, when the vaults of the choir were replaced in 1830, before the Romanesque bell tower was raised, then in 1843 its apse and finally, in 1883, its facade was rebuilt in imitation of the Romanesque style (this one is pierced with an oculus, surmounting a portal with 4 archivolts resting on columns with capitals).
The characteristic/original element of this church is its line of cupolas, built in 1901 and left visible. Built in cement, they give the building a false oriental air. The sanctuary, which must originally have been in the shape of a Latin cross, has retained from its original structure only a nave made up of four bays, extended by a choir in a cul-de-four, which is pierced with seven bays. . 8 half-columns, distributed along the apse, serve as buttresses. The square bell tower rises on a spherical dome with pendentives; it retains a series of Romanesque arches in its lower part and is pierced with three thin openings in its upper part, according to a layout found in the church of Berneuil, a few dozen kilometers away.
The interior retains furniture dating mainly from the 19th century.
Several plaster statues, of rather naive invoice, are visible in the nave: they notably represent Saint Michael and Joan of Arc. The apse, cul-de-four, is decorated with murals representing a Christ in Majesty. At the entrance to the nave, on the left side, a capital dating from the 12th century has plant motifs. We will appreciate the majesty of the domes on pendentives, some of the capitals and the diagonal arrangement of the two altars between the nave and the heart.
Church open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Tel. 05-46-22-53-34
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55.4 km
Pisany Market Halls
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71.5 km
Bois de la Roche
Forest
74.9 km
Les Halles de Cozes
Highlight • Monument
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94.8 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
75.2 km
12.3 km
4.64 km
2.14 km
476 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
91.8 km
2.38 km
595 m
< 100 m
< 100 m
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