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Local shops are within 1k of the Logis du Cherpre.
The shopping centres are also close-by.
The area is worth exploring for its regional produce,
the melons of Semussac, mojhettes (special beans) of Pont l'Abbé, Charentais grillons (preserved spiced pock),
salt from the Salt-water Marshes, the girdle cakes de Beurlay, the mussels of Charron.
Ground of vine-growing wich has the fame of the Cognac and Pineau.
And also famous for the oysters of and seafood of the Estuary.
In addition to its many beaches, our region offers many
excursions and activities as well as its rich heritage.
- 15 mn from the Saintes town-centre, ancient Mediolanum Santonum and its Gallo-Roman remains,
- 20 mn from the beatches of Royan-Pontaillac and St Georges de Didonne or from the beatches of the extensive coast of St Palais sur Mer,
- 20 mn from the Royal city of Rochefort-sur-Mer, by the edge of the Charente,
- 40 mn from the Côte Sauvage or the Ile d'Oléron,
- 40 mn from Segonzac,principal town of the Cognac region
- 50 mn from La Rochelle.
Not forgetting the whole of the Gironde Estuary.
Taking the verdon ferry you are in the vineyards
of the Medoc (Pauillac, Margaux, Saint-Estèphe...).
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