La Ferriere: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Maison de la Pêche et de la Nature introduces children to angling, fishing and the aquatic environment. The Jardins de Wandlitz are a wooded park with play and picnic areas.

The Bois des Girondins is a public forest within the municipality of La Ferrière, where visitors can go for walks, mountain biking and picnics.

Anyone considering La Ferrière as a travel destination may wish to rent a holiday apartment.

Culture

The Pôle Culturel et Associatif Marcel Rivière comprises a media library, an exhibition space and a music school. The Le Roc cinema is classified as “Art et Essai” and has a screening room with 150 seats. Le Roc cinema also organises the Art et Essai Festival and the Printemps du Cinéma Allemand.

The Les Thermelières site is classified in the Vendée département as one of 32 heritage sites with a geological identity. At Les Thermelières, iron occurs in a near-surface vein and emerges in places in crusts known as “chapeaux de fer”.

Culinary offerings

La Ferrière’s weekly market features a fishmonger, a vegetable grower, a goat cheese producer and, seasonally, a vendor of homemade preserves.

Geographical location

The RD 160 passes through La Ferrière and connects Paris with Les Sables d’Olonne.

Getting around

The circular route from La Roche-sur-Yon to La Ferrière is 9.1 kilometres long and includes 4.1 kilometres of voie verte and 5 kilometres of shared road. Parc des sports in La Ferrière is a starting point for this circular route. The Pont des Boches is a stop along this circular route.

Other places in the Vendée: La Pommeraie-Sur-Sèvre, Château-Guibert, La Chapelle-Thémer, Bazoges-en-Paillers, Le Boupère, La Châtaigneraie, Saint-Hilaire-De-Loulay, Mouzeuil-Saint-Martin.

To the higher-level travel overview: Vendée.