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The Safari Parc de Haute-Saintonge, in the Charente, is a natural park. The estate is a place for observing and conserving wildlife, both fauna and flora, in a vast natural setting.
The visit is by 4x4 vehicle, allowing visitors to observe and photograph wild animals living together independently. It lasts about two hours and reveals the animals' daily life.
Discover the largest running birds in the world: ostriches. Visit of the paddocks, incubators and nursery.
Over 11 hectares, discover common and exotic animals: dromedaries, raccoons, wallabies, ostriches, emus, llamas, Corsican mouflons, red deer, fallow deer, sheep, yaks, antelopes, American bison, porcupines, rheas... and farm animals.
The lords of Chillac appear in many old texts; the castle existed by the 11th century but disappeared in the Hundred Years' War.
The fief of Montausier is recorded as held by the Taillefer Counts of Angoulême from the early 11th century.
The seigneury has been recorded since the 11th century as a possession of the Talleyrand-Périgord family, who bequeathed the château to the town hospice in 1883.
The Montchaude estate belonged to lords of the house of Barbezieux, then to the Saint-Gelais family.