Lezay

Lezay is an attractive market town in the south of Deux-Sevres. The town itself has all main commerce including bars and restaurants as well as a campsite, swimming pool, fishing lake and a great market on a Tuesday morning, where you can buy everything from fruit and vegetables to meat, clothing, plants and flowers and even live chickens. It also has a famous livestock market. It is only 40km from Niort which has a large retail park and historic quarters, less than an hour from the airport at Poitiers, and just an hour and a half by car from the coast and La Rochelle.