Puy du Fou: La Cinéscènie®:
A major open-air show featuring over 800 volunteers telling the story of the Vendée. Sound and light with multiple special effects, fireworks and stunts. Le Grand Parcours: a 30-hectare park offering a variety of shows including falconry, chivalry, a Gallo-Roman stadium, etc., as well as a medieval city, an 18th-century village and many other attractions.
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On the borders of Poitou, Anjou and the Marches de Bretagne, Puy du Fou’s strategic location once justified the construction of a medieval keep. Razed by the English during the Hundred Years’ War, archaeologists located the foundations of this vestige which, rehabilitated, became one of the elements of the falconry show in the Grand Parc du Puy du Fou®.
The right tone and closeness of the sketches are akin to theatrical practice, while the imposing technical equipment and natural sets harmonize with the power of cinematic artifice. Halfway between these two arts, Cinéscénie® sets space in motion to tell the story of the Haut Bocage vendéen, from the Middle Ages to the Liberation.
This nocturnal epic is narrated by one character, Jacques Maupillier, a young peasant from Vendée, whose adventures as a peddler take in chivalric jousting, fieldwork, parish festivals and a visit from François 1er. His descendants carried on the story during the Vendée War, the Renaissance and into the 20th century.
