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Lat, Lng:  45.643200, -0.552148
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Address:  1 Avenue du Prieuré, 17460, Colombiers, Charente-Maritime, Nouvelle-Aquitaine

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France
Colombiers
Charente-Maritime
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Saint-Maclou


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Colombiers - Saint-Maclou

Colombiers - Saint-Maclou
Colombiers is a small village (pop. 300) in the former marshes of the Seugne river. Life must be hard here in medieval times. Saint-Maclou, the village´s parish church, was erected in the 12th century. It was the church of a priory, dependent from the Benedictian Abbaye Saint-Sauveur in Charroux. The church got altered and modified during the Gothic period (15th.), when it lost its once Romanesque portal.

Single nave churches, like Saint-Maclou, are typical for the villages of the Saintonge. This nave does not look spectacular, but the carvings all around are extravagant.

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