from OT Niort

Saint-Romans-des-Champs

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Credit : OTNMP, 2015

Although it is the smallest municipality in the canton of Prahecq and the least populated, Saint-Romans was occupied from the Bronze Age (objects preserved in the museums of Niort). First mentioned at the beginning of the 13th century, the village was originally called Saint-Romain-des-Champs. A soldier and Christian martyr of the 3rd century, Roman of Rome was celebrated on 09 August. Every last Sunday in July, the Communal Rural Entertainment Association organizes its old-fashioned hype festival.

To see: the oratory of La Fragnée and the wash house of Puits-Neuf (face of a washerwoman crunched with a knife on the well by a man).