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ALENCON
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Nb. of visits : 6
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Alencon, the largest city department, third in his region after Caen and Cherbourg, Alençon was for centuries an important administrative place, capital of the generality of Alencon, and economic, Alencon lace, printing and a communications hub between east-west on the Paris-Brittany, north-south axis on the Calais-Bayonne. In the early nineteenth century, Alençon was almost comparable in importance to rival Le Mans and Laval.
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6 VISITS CORRESPOND TO YOUR SEARCH |
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Historical Alencon
Tour Guide
Max. 2h
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 Walking Tour |
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Erected into a duchy in 1414, Alençon was permanently attached to the royal domain in 1549, after the death of Marguerite de France said Marguerite d'Angouleme, sister of King Francis I, a widow in first marriage of the last Duke Charles IV. Colbert founded in 1665 with his famous factories of the famous point or point of France Alençon created in 1650 from the point of Venice. Alencon employed at the peak of his art until eight thousand lacemakers. The weaving of linen and hemp canvas in the seventeenth century brought prosperity. Alencon factory at that time, a kind of cloth called blancard or foil. The city is beginning an industrial revolution which the revocation of the Edict of Nantes deal a fatal blow by causing the run of industrial Huguenots to England and Holland. |
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Fine Arts and Lace Museum
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Tour Guide
Max. 2h
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Walking Tour |
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In 1857, a factory designed to spread the love of arts and sciences is officially based in Alençon, following a combination of a cabinet of natural history and some works created after the French Revolution. Soon, the museum is growing and gaining importance thanks to Leon of Sicotiere, senator and local scholar. New collections and donations enrich the Heritage Museum. In this period late nineteenth century that most of the Museum's collection was formed. But not until the late nineteenth century that the famous lace Alençon make their appearance at the Museum. |
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Discover the Normand Switzerland
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Tour Guide
Max. 4h
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 Coach tour |
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Swiss Normandy is Normandy, straddling between Calvados and Orne. Its name comes from the rugged and verdant, with gorges carved by the Orne River and its tributaries, by erosion in the Massif Armorican, between Putanges-bridge Écrepin and Thury Harcourt. The banks of the river with steep terrain and a large forest. On the hills, fields of small size and steep, are often bordered by thick hedges or granite walls with dense vegetation. Mount Pinçon, which culminates at 345 meters is the highest point of the Normand Switzerland. The churches, houses and farm buildings have a style closer to that found in the Channel, rather than timbered Auge. |
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Discovery of the Mancelles Alps
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Tour Guide
Max. 4h
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Coach tour |
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Top of its 416 meters, the Mount of Avaloirs is the culmination of the Armorican Massif and the Great West. On site, a lookout offers a panoramic view of 360° visitors on the north-west, the forest and Monay Basin Pre-en-Pail by crossing the Mayenne, Mount Souprat and the Butte Chaumont, other peaks of the Massif Armorican; eastward campaign Alencon and massive forest Perseigne to the south, the Alps and mancelles Forest Pail. To the west, country of wooded Javron. From the viewpoint car park starts a trail that leads to the hamlet La Pierre au Loup, which takes its source the river Mayenne, on the common Lalacelle. St. Céneri-the-Gérei is one of the most beautiful villages of France. |
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Mortagne au Perche
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Tour Guide
Max. 4h
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Coach tour |
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Mortagne au Perche is a character medieval city steeped in history. A stronghold of the Counts of Perche and privileged three countesses. Mortagne has a rich architectural heritage with its sixteenth-century homes and mansions of the eighteenth century, decorated with many sundials. Birthplace of the philosopher Alain and many pioneers Percheron parties found the new France in the 17th century. |
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The Mansions of the Perche
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Tour Guide
Max. 4h
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Coach tour |
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Le Perche, French historical province, is a former county that takes its name from the Sylva Pertica forest. It covers the departments of Orne, Eure-et-Loir, Sarthe and Loir-et-Cher. A Regional Natural Park of Perche was created in 1998. The Manor Courboyer fifteenth century, listed Historical Monument: home of the Regional Natural Park of Perche. The strong identity of perch due in part to its customary law before the revolution. The county was formed by merging the county Mortagne, Viscount Châteaudun and lordship of Nogent-le-Rotrou. |
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