Saint-Jean-d’Angély

A maze of winding streets and triangular squares, called cantons, are the main hallmark of Saint-Jean-ANGELY. The center of this town has a medieval character that fades as you move towards the suburbs, where the streets are much more modern. Some buildings date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. They are in very good condition and full of life. There are also stately mansions dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although very little remains of the abbey that once presided over this lovely town, you can see the ruins and remains of what was one of the most beautiful and magnificent buildings in the region of Poitou-Charentes. Today you can visit the ruins where one of Jesus' cousins who was burned during the wars of religion was kept up until the sixteenth century. A very sad fate befell the relics and the temple.