The oldest region of the South Vendée consists of the Massif Armoricain, ending at the door of Fontenay le Comte.

A walk along the waterways, in the hollows of the bocage, rewards you with unexpected discoveries: an always surprising landscape, a variety of scents, the perfumes of the plant-life growing either singly or in abundance.

The Vendéen Bocage, which rises from 80 to 300 metres above the sea, has witnessed the development of Charolais cattle breeding for a hundred years. The soil is generally acidic and moist, cool in the summer, and cattle breeding has developed advantageously.