Here are our ideas for days out with kids in and around Niort, each one checked, for little ones and older kids alike. Here are 12 ideas picked from over 8,500 outings in the Trottimap app.
Castles and heritage
Musée du Donjon de Niort · Niort (79)
On the banks of the Sèvre, this double keep built by the Plantagenets tells a thousand years of the town's history, from knights to traditional Poitou headdresses.
Pools, beaches and water
Piscine Pré-Leroy · Niort (79)
Near the centre of Niort, this conurbation pool adds a covered family area with water games and a toddler pool to its swimming pools.
Museums and science
Musée Bernard d'Agesci · Niort (79)
In a former Niort secondary school, this museum brings together paintings, sculptures and natural history collections, so you can move from an old portrait to a display of animals in a few…
Sport and adventure
Patinoire de Niort Agglo · Niort (79)
On the banks of the Venise Verte, the conurbation's ice rink opens public sessions several times a week.
Leisure parks
Aventure Games Niort · Niort (79)
In this indoor complex in the Mendès-France area, you can combine a laser tag game, an obstacle course partly done in the dark with a torch, and an arena where players face…
Leisure parks
Monky Niort · Chauray (79)
This new leisure complex near Niort brings together a Kid Park for climbing and sliding, a trampoline Jump Park, a Baby Park for toddlers, plus bowling and laser game.
Pools, beaches and water
Centre aquatique des Fraignes · Chauray (79)
In Chauray, this aquatic centre run by the Niort conurbation focuses on family fun.
Sport and adventure
Karting Niort 79 (KN79) · Chauray (79)
On the edge of Niort, this kilometre-and-a-half circuit welcomes children from seven years old in sessions, provided they reach the required height.
Pools, beaches and water
Embarcadère La Trigale · Coulon (79)
From the heart of Coulon, you board a flat-bottomed boat to follow the canals lined with pollarded ash trees.
Animals and farms
La Ferme du Marais poitevin · Benet (85)
In southern Vendée, near Benet, this farm raises Marais breeds that have become rare, such as the Baudet du Poitou, the Poitou goat and the Poitou goose.
Pools, beaches and water
Embarcadère de la Venise Verte · Le Mazeau (85)
At Le Mazeau, in the Vendée part of the Marais Poitevin, a boatman poles the punt under the pollarded ash trees lining the canals.
Castles and heritage
Abbaye royale de Nieul-sur-l'Autise · Rives-d'Autise (85)
In southern Vendée, this Romanesque abbey founded under Eleanor of Aquitaine has kept a complete cloister, a rare sight in France.
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