Mars-Sur-Allier: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Mars-sur-Allier combines the 3-kilometre-long Sentier des Cigognes with a Romanesque church: the trail begins at the village’s Romanesque church.

Mars-sur-Allier is a possible destination for anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment there.

Nature

There is a car park for the Sentier des Cigognes at the foot of this Romanesque church. Around ten pairs of white storks breed at the Mars-sur-Allier site every year.

The Val d’Allier is also part of the area’s natural environment: several hundred cranes spend the winter there. The first are usually observed in the Mars-sur-Allier area around mid-October.

Culture

The Église Saint-Julien in Mars-sur-Allier has been protected as a historic monument of France since 12 July 1886. It is a Cluniac site with building components from the 11th, 12th and 19th centuries. Since 2005, Mars-sur-Allier has been part of the “European Cultural Routes” and “Cluniac Sites in Europe” networks thanks to the Romanesque Église Saint-Julien.

The local architectural and commemorative heritage also includes the Chapelle Saint-Léger, a remnant of an earlier church, and the Château d’Oliveau, which was built in the 19th century.

In the Middle Ages, Châteauneuf-sur-Allier, a hamlet of Mars-sur-Allier, was one of the 32 châtellenies of the Nivernais. The American camp in Mars-sur-Allier was established by the US Army from 1918 onwards. A total of 37,774 patients were treated there before the camp was dismantled in 1919.

Further local pages are Oisy, Sermoise, Fléty, Corbigny, Ciez, Onlay, Anthien and Cossaye.

For the higher-level travel overview: Nièvre.