Le Puy du Fou Offers French Medieval Adventure

Bored with reading history books? French medieval amusement park Le Puy du Fou invites history buffs and tourists to relive battles, legends, and myths from the Middle Ages in the Vendée region in southwestern France.
Le Puy du Fou Offers French Medieval Adventure
Actors perform at the Puy du Fou in Les Epesses, France, in a file photo from April 12, 2010. FRANK PERRY/AFP/Getty Images
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Bored with reading history books? French medieval amusement park Le Puy du Fou invites history buffs and tourists to relive battles, legends, and myths from the Middle Ages in the Vendée region in southwestern France.

The Le Puy du Fou adventure park was launched in 1978 as an open-air amateur theater night on the grounds of a ruined castle, where volunteers re-enacted the bloody history of the Vendée, a powerful political region in the medieval period.