Partez à la découverte de l’Orne en Normandie, oubliez montres, plumes, dossiers et cahiers d’écolier : le temps est venu de s’évader !
The name alone should be temptation enough! Picturesque sites, sloping and verdant landscapes, snaking gorges sculpted by the Orne and its mysterious little tributaries, steep-sided valleys, babbling waters, rocky escarpments, open moorland, pastureland divided by hedgerows and stone walls as well as farmhouses built from schist, sandstone and granite.
- 120 km
On the route :
Le Lac de Rabodanges, cruises, water-skiing, canoeing, fishing….
Les Gorges de Saint Aubert, carved by the river Orne and bounded by rocky, wooded slopes, this is a wild and imposing sight..
La Forêt-Auvray and its 18th century covered market
La Roche d’Oëtre, one of western France’s most prestigious belvederes. A natural landscape with an imposing panorama over the Rouvre’s wooded gorges.
La Maison de la Rivière et du Paysage, a visitor centre dedicated to nature and the environment (at the entrance of the Gorge de la Rouvre)
Le Mont de Cerisy-Belle-Étoile, a hill resplendent with Rhododendrons (family stop-off)
The ancient yews of La Lande-Patry
Flers, a “town in the countryside”, as imagines by writer A. Allais, with a rich and varied architectural heritage arising from its industrial history. Château (16th century) and museum.
Athis-de-l’Orne the Jardin Contemporain “Intérieur à ciel ouvert”
Sainte Honorine-la-Chardonne, the gardens of the Boisnerie manor
Ménil-Gondouin Eglise vivante et parlante (The living and speaking church) (19th c.)
Putanges-Pont-Ecrepin, a charming village on the banks of the river Orne