Situated in the north of the Deux-Sèvres department, the Thouarsais is ideally located between the Loire Valley and the Atlantic coast. The 24 communes offer a varied landscape of agricultural plains, hedged farmland and vineyards. The GR36 and the Vélo Francette, two major national walking and cycling routes, cross the area and allow visitors to discover our natural, historical, cultural and leisure heritage.
Coulonges Thouarsais
The name Coulonges, Colungia, first appeared around 1080. It comes from the Latin colonia, meaning a rural property or a settler's tenure. Notre-Dame church is one of the last churches built under the Concordat of 1801, and before the 1905 law separating Church and State. By the end of the 19th century, the old Romanesque church was in a poor state of repair, and the steeple collapsed on 19 December 1885. Reconstruction was planned and the foundation stone laid on Sunday 14 June 1891. The church was built of granite on the outside and Poitiers stone on the inside.
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