Frontenay-sur-Dive

Wandering through the streets of Frontenay is like walking through a living museum of traditional Poitevin housing. The peasant houses in the village boast fine rural architecture: walls with remarkable bonding, rustic porches sometimes housing a dovecote, gates and outside staircases. The Romanesque church of Saint-Pierre has an astonishing feature: its bell tower houses a dovecote with 77 bolts, transforming it into a loft housing a mixture of pigeons and bells. While in Frontenay, why not visit the Trois-Noyers educational garden, which specialises in forgotten vegetables such as squash, tomatoes and aubergines?