title: Mervent
text: # Mervent
  
  Mervent (French pronunciation: ​) 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
  