Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm

Old Island Gulf Pictones, Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm was born withdrawal of maritime waters by monks in the 13^th century. Through the creation of levees along the Baie de l'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, the draining of marsh land has given the humidity and salinity for the development of a very mixed vegetation, as referred salt meadows the Mizottes.

With constant sunshine throughout the year, the town is in the fullness of the back Vendée coast. Particularly well surrounded and served, it is the convergence of the great beaches of l'Aiguillon-sur-Mer, La Faute-sur-Mer and La Tranche-sur-Mer, and more attractions such as La Rochelle, Les Sables d'Olonne or Luçon.

With a remarkable history, the city center is dominated by the old Royal Abbey and the nearby church, where you can experience a unique marble altar. The arts are also represented by the Musée André Deluol which displays over 150 works by the famous painter and sculptor.

Throughout the year, the village offers local services, 800m from the campsite, in particular banks, pharmacy, bakery, butcher, newsagent and tobacco, hair salons, but also doctors, nursing center, physiotherapist, osteopath, dentist veterinarian. A market is held every Thursday morning at the Town Hall Square.

Ile de La Dive

Still surrounded by the sea in the 17^th century, the island of Dive is the only remaining vestige of the old natural terrain that extended to Niort. Emerging from the old muddy sea, it overlooks the salt meadows (called Mizottes) and offers in its peak a unique panorama of land and Aiguillon Bay in the distance.
Nestled at 15m in height to the top of white limestone cliffs on which cling ivy and the setting sun at dusk, the viewpoint offers explained all the territory that unfolds in front of your eyes.
From this promontory of 1km in length and 250m in width, it is possible, with a clear sky, enjoy a unique view that extends around, sweeping the Aiguillon and its Bay, Pointe d'Arçay, and wider, the bridge of the Ile de Ré and La Rochelle.

La Digue des Polders

Between earth and sea, Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm is a city directly reclaimed from the sea and located in the marshes. naturally fertile territory, the old drained wetlands are covered by any hydraulic network within the work of Dutch engineers came to settle in the town. Won between 16^th and 19^th through the polder techniques (land is under the sea level), the salt meadows are squared by dykes (bots), the crests are currently occupied by roads and paths practicable, and channels (contrebots) irrigator successively decreasing sizes of different ditches (the achevaux flow into the gutters and the conches).

Between Camping and Dive's Island the amount and different mounds and mounds that dot the landscape and break the old swamps in a regular grid. Amid these grassy plains stand small huts perched on stilts. Built with a mixture of earth and lime, these little huts serve as nesting and migratory wild birds of prey that grow nearby.

More by going to the coast emerges and reveals among grasses and reeds an old pier. Picturesque harbor consists of docks and pilings booms used the tides by fishermen and residents, that dike, called "Dyke Morocco" was built in 1912 and opens directly into the loop of the Baie de l'Aiguillon.