Poitiers, Ville d’Art et d’Histoire
Crossed by the Clain with its developed banks, Poitiers can be proud of an immensely rich past. Nicknamed "the city of a hundred steeples", Poitiers has an exceptional architectural heritage (churches, cathedral, megalith, etc.), a pedestrian city center, half-timbered houses, numerous parks, such as Blossac and the Roseraie. , as well as a University where great names studied there like Rabelais or Descartes, it is one of the oldest in France, established by Pope Eugene IV in 1431 and confirmed by King Charles VII in 1432, during the Hundred Years War when Poitiers was the political and administrative capital of France.
Today, Poitiers is an attractive and dynamic city due to its size, its infrastructure, its living environment and its university which allow it to remain “young”!
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