La Chapelle-des-Pots () is a
commune in the center-east of the
Charente-Maritime department
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Government and military
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in southwestern
France, in the former province of
Saintonge
Saintonge may refer to:
*County of Saintonge, a historical province of France on the Atlantic coast
*Saintonge (region), a region of France corresponding to the historical province
Places
*Saint-Genis-de-Saintonge, a commune in the Charente-Mari ...
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History
La Chapelle-des-Pots is a village where potters make ceramics for more than eight centuries. Many woods, brooks and local clay allowed the creation of ceramics.
Bernard Palissy even worked with local potters.
Population
Places and monuments
In the center of the town: a fountain covered with a dome made of cut stone and thrown into a wash-house, the church of Saint-Front (1786), whose foundations use stones from the old potters' chapel (Municipal Bulletin). A ceramic kiln built in 2006 of the chain type located near the town hall, an old ceramic kiln, call Varoqeau kiln, inscribed in historical monuments.
A school group inaugurated in 1955.
The municipality had an interesting regional museum: the Saintongean Ceramics Museum, where collections of local pottery from XIIIe to XXe. This museum, founded under the mandate of Raymond Viollier was closed by the current municipality.
Exterior of the borough: old seigniory, several small stone washhouses, numerous hiking trails VTT and pedestrian.
Environmental Heritage
The
GR 4
The GR 4 is a long-distance walking route of the Grande Randonnée network in France. The route connects Royan with Grasse.
Along the way, the route passes through:
* Royan
* Saintes
* Montbron
* Aixe-sur-Vienne
* Aubusson
* Mont-Dore
* Les Va ...
which runs from
Royan to
Grasse crosses the town and runs along the fountain of the center of the town.
Gallery
File:LCP4.jpg, La Chapelle-des-Pots Neoclassical church
File:LCP6.jpg, Lavoir
File:LCP2.jpg, Oven
upA double oven
A ceramic oven
An oven is a tool which is used to expose materials to a hot environment. Ovens contain a hollow chamber and provide a means of heating the chamber in a controlled way. In use since antiquity, they have been us ...
See also
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Communes of the Charente-Maritime department
*
Cognac, France
Cognac (; Saintongese: ''Cougnat''; oc, Conhac ) is a commune in the Charente department, southwestern France. Administratively, the commune of Cognac is a subprefecture of the Charente department.
Name
The name is believed to be formed from ...
References
External links
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Communes of Charente-Maritime
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