Les Tourailles

Geography

• Watercourses: The river Rouvre.

  History

• Notre-Dame de la Recouvrance chapel, departure point for pilgrimages since the 9th century.

  Administration

Population

Sites and monuments

• Basilica of the Notre-Dame de la Recouvrance chapel, completed in 1939.
• 16th-century castle keep, a good ensemble with two pavilions.
• Bridge of Tourailles, the remains of a Roman bridge.
• Pilgrimages on 8 September and 31 May.

  People associated with Les Tourailles

• Antoine de Montchrestien. Poet and author. Known by the name of 'Vatteville'. He tried to revive the religious wars of the sixteenth century but was killed when making a traveller's stop in Les Tourailles.