Mortemart, 'Un des Plus Beaux Villages de France'

It is the only village in the department to be listed as "One of the most beautiful villages in France". It is famous for the remains of its glorious past. It offers an architecturaly-imposing group of buildings remarkable for the purity of its lines. Information boards will lead you to the village's various monuments : the château of the Dukes of Mortemart, the covered market (C18th), the convent of the Carmelite order with its monumental staircase (C17th), the convent of the Augustinian order whose chapel has become the parish church, and the former offices of the old tribunal.