Top 3 activities in Saint-Vincent sur Jard
Take advantage of your camping holiday in the Vendée to visit Saint Vincent sur Jard, home to Georges Clémenceau’s house, one of the Vendée’s must-see places of interest!
Fishing on foot
Saint-Vincent-Sur-Jard and the surrounding area are a great playground for this family activity.
Discover the beaches of Ragounite, la Ragnette, Légère and du Musée, where you’ll find plenty of rocky plateaus for collecting periwinkles, oysters, mussels and other barnacles. Don’t forget to follow the regulations in force for collecting if you practice this activity during your stay at camping Saint Vincent sur Jard:
- oysters and mussels: 5 kg per person per day
- cockles: 4 kg per person per day
- scallops: 2 kg per person per day
- grey or pink shrimps: normal family consumption
- periwinkles, clams and razor clams: 3 kg per person per day
Visit Georges Clémenceau’s house
Visit the famous house where Georges Clemenceau lived at the end of his life. “La bicoque”, as he called it, is a simple, modest, low-slung house, typical of the region, with pale green shutters overlooking the sea.
He took care to create a delicate, multicolored garden, with the advice of his old friend Claude Monet. The plantings have been reconstructed thanks to correspondence between the two friends. You’ll be able to admire many souvenirs from the Far East: Chinese vases, Japanese paintings, sculptures of Buddhist divinities – George Clemenceau was indeed passionate about these cultures. A moving visit.
Observe the Grand Bouillac Dolmen
Don’t miss the Grand Bouillac dolmen, excavated and restored by George Lacouloumère and Maurice Beaudouin in 1905, which is thought to be a collapsed dolmen with an angled corridor.
Made almost entirely of sandstone, it is 6 m long and 4 m wide, with a table weighing close to 20 tonnes.
Arrowheads, flint flakes, human bones, pottery shards, etc. found during the excavations are kept at the Musée Sainte-Croix in Les Sables-d’Olonne.
