Mervent

Mervent
Commune
The Château de la Citardière
Location of Mervent
Mervent Mervent
Coordinates: 46°31′23″N 0°45′19″W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Vendée
Arrondissement	Fontenay-le-Comte
Canton	Fontenay-le-Comte
Intercommunality	Pays de Fontenay-le-Comte
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Joël Bobineau
Area 1	22.23 km2 (8.58 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	1,065
• Density	48/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	85143 /85200
Elevation	13–112 m (43–367 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Mervent is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Places and monuments

• The Château de la Citardière
• The Old Castle ruins in the village,
• The church Saint-Medard
• The Mère river.
• The Mervent-Vouvant forest
• The Pierre-Brune recreation park
• The Natur’Zoo.
• The cave where Louis de Montfort (an 18th century catholic priest) prayed

Main sights

• 
  Mervent's church
• 
  The forest
• 
  Mervent's lake
• 
  The cave of Louis de Monfort

See also

• Communes of the Vendée department