Located in Haute Gironde, 40 km from Bordeaux, Saint-Ciers-de-Canesse is located in the Canton of Bourg-en Gironde, who has 15 municipalities: Bourg Saint-Trojan, Samonac Villeneuve, Gauriac, Teuillac, Saint-Seurin-de-Bourg-Bayon sur-Gironde, Tauriac, Prignac-and-Marcamps, Pugnac, Lansac, Comps and Mombrier.
Overlooking the Gironde estuary, this county is dedicated to the vine. So is it one of the first joint Côtes de Bourg "in both size and quality of its soil.
His vineyard is established on ridges and slopes of valleys with flowing streams, one of which is deemed a geographical limit. Indeed, he who bears the name Draft to the north and south of gamay is the historical border between the Langue d'Oil and the Langue d'Oc.
Country hills down to the Gironde common Saint-Ciers-de-Canesse offers broad views of the Estuary. The dorsal borrows the RD250 is the testimony of Mercier Nicoleau, exceptional views open onto the river and the hillside to Montuzet Plassac.
But if you arrive by Nodeau and take the local road towards Pinchaud, you will discover further views on Villeneuve and Gauriac, the Islands and the Médoc in the distant horizon.
Other landscapes, more closed, are also remarkable, including the valley slopes with Grenet Comps and Gauriac since the church square and the path of Tuilière since Boubereau, Valley Creek Chapel.
The centerpiece of the town of Saint-Ciers-de-Canesse is its Romanesque church, in situations of "belvedere" on Valley Grenet, flanked by his former rectory.
The old noble houses, only the castle remains and the castle The Rousselle Graulet located in valley bottoms.
Finally, the presence in the town of a limestone subsoil induced many revivals. Also fountains and wash racks are frequent. They are found at the end of rural roads as territory, Men, along local roads in the town at Bitot, but also private property Balleret or Guibonnet, best known for.
The former listed village of Bourg, Route de la Corniche, the mill at Grand Puy Lansac, prehistoric cave-Pair Non-Peer-to-and-Prignac Marcamps, the citadel of Blaye or the Cubzaguais are not to be missed!
