Pays de Retz
The Pays de Retz ( Raez in Poitevin , the language of Poitou , Breton Bro Raez ) (variants: Rais, Rays, Raiz) is a landscape south of the Loire estuary in the Loire-Atlantique department . Originally the area was part of historic Brittany, but does not belong to what is now the French region of Brittany . The main towns of the Pays de Retz are Machecoul-Saint-Même , Pornic and Paimbœuf .
location
The Pays de Retz is bounded in the west by the Atlantic , in the north by the Loire, in the east by the Lac de Grand-Lieu and in the south by the Marais Breton and the Vendée department .
tourism
The Route Bleue ( German "Blue Route" ) runs through Pornic and has eleven important prehistoric megalithic monuments . Below this is the Dissignac tumulus (No. 1) near the city. Among the dolmens , numbers 9-11 on the Pays de Rets are particularly well-known: the Croix de Sandun (3), the Kerbourg (4), the du Riholo (5), that of the Rossignols (6), the Tumulus of Mousseaux west of Pornic (9), the Dolmen de la Joselière (10) and the du Pré d'Aire (11). There are also three menhirs: the menhir from Bissin (No. 2), the 2.1 m high Pierre de Couche (7) and the approximately 2.7 m high menhir de la Pierre Attelée (8), which has been a historical monument since 1992 is classified.
history
The name Pays de Retz comes from pagus ratiatum , which means pays de Rezé , the land of Rezé .