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Saint-Cénéri-le-Gérei – Castle of the Dukes of Alençon loop from Alençon

Saint-Cénéri-le-Gérei – Castle of the Dukes of Alençon loop from Alençon

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Saint-Cénéri-le-Gérei – Castle of the Dukes of Alençon loop from Alençon

01:56

44.8km

370m

Road cycling

Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: April 8, 2026

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24.5 km

Bois de la Garenne

Forest

26.9 km

Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei — Village and Stone Bridge

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Starting from the center of the village and crossing the bridge to this point, remember to look back and appreciate the view of the village and the church towering above you.

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Saint-Cénéri-le-Gérei

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In the heart of the Mancelles Alps, the small village of Saint-Cénéri-Le-Gérei has that little extra soul that makes it one of the Most Beautiful Villages in France. In the 19th century, the village attracted a good number of painters, including Corot and Courbet.
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29.6 km

Saint Symphorien Church

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Saint-Martin Chapel. It dates from the 12th or 13th century. It is made of granite, roussard sandstone and brick. This small chapel is lost in the middle of the fields. It is a simple rectangular nave which has a Romanesque window at its chevet.

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35.3 km

Church of Saint Madeleine

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19th century Sainte-Madeleine Church, housing a painted panel (The Adoration of the Shepherds) from the 16th or 17th century classified as a Historic Monument

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42.2 km

Catholic Church - St. Peter of Montsort ⛪🌟🗝

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It is in this church that two sisters of Ste Thérèse of Lisieux were baptized, Marie Martin future Carmelite then her sister Léonie Martin, future Visitandine as well as on August 10, 1919 the blessed Marcel Denis of the Foreign Missions of Paris (1919-1961), one of the seventeen martyrs of Laos.

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43.1 km

Castle of the Dukes of Alençon

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The castle of the Dukes of Alençon is an old fortified castle, from the end of the 12th century. Its remains stand in the heart of the French commune of Alençon in the Orne department, in the Normandy region. During the Revolution, the remaining buildings of the castle were transformed into a prison, a function which it retained until 2010. The castle is classified as a historic monument.

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43.4 km

Saint Leonard's Church

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The Saint-Léonard church takes its name from the hermit Saint Léonard de Vandoeuvre. The latter, born at the end of the 5th century, left his family to serve God and settled in a place called Vandoeuvre, in Saint-Léonard-des-Bois, where he lived in austerity for several years. Joined by a few disciples, he built a monastery protected by King Clotaire. The relics of Saint Leonard, who died in 570, were transported in 868 to Corbigny by the monks of Vandoeuvre to preserve them from the Normans. Part of these was undoubtedly returned around 1025 thanks to the second lord of Alençon, William I, and deposited in an old chapel dedicated to Saint Martin located on the site of the current Saint-Léonard church. This saint is often invoked to cure deafness.

A first Saint-Léonard church, attested between 1160 and 1182, was probably built very close to the Saint-Martin oratory. This disappeared around the middle of the 13th century in forgotten circumstances, but parish life remained concentrated in the chapel until the end of the 15th century.

It is on the latter that the current church was built, in tertiary ogival style and flamboyant Gothic interior, by Duke René d'Alençon and his wife Marguerite de Lorraine. Most of the work took place from 1490 to 1505 and it was this same year that the building was placed under the name of Saint Leonard de Noblac, a character then more popular than Saint Leonard de Vandoeuvre.

On the stained glass windows of one of the eleven side chapels, which was for a certain time dedicated to Louis IX, ancestor of the counts and dukes of Alençon, and on the walls, appeared the coats of arms of the houses of Alençon and Lorraine, today now disappeared. It was in this chapel that the duchess and the duke attended services and in which a fireplace was built for them which no longer exists. After René's death, his heart is placed in a lead box, itself in the shape of a heart, covered with a stone. When around 1510, René's heart was transferred to the church of Saint-François de Mortagne, the empty box was left in his vault. In 1776, the stone, which also bears the imprint of a heart, was removed, then put back in its place, and this imprint, erased by the friction of the feet, no longer exists except in memory. In 1562, the church was pillaged by Protestants. At Easter 1645, Hertré's granite vault collapsed. Replaced by a simple plaster cradle, it was not until 1836 that a new Gothic style vault was built. The main door was built in 1663 and the clock was installed in 1727. Until 1789, this church depended on Notre-Dame and did not have a baptismal font. The carved wooden altar and pulpit, two side consoles and some mostly modern stained glass windows, deserve the tourist's attention. The Saint-Léonard church, restored in the 17th-18th centuries, then completely refurbished in the 19th century by the architect Isidore Dédaux, is classified among the historic monuments.

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43.7 km

General Leclerc de Hauteclocque Monument

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Crossing the Sarthe, you come across this "Monument Leclerc", a memorial paying homage to General Leclerc, commander of the 2nd Armored Division, who liberated the town of Alençon on August 12, 1944. On the wall are the main dates and places that marked the course of the 2nd DB. Opposite, there is one of the many terminals of the Koufra oath.

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44.8 km

End point

Train Station

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

41.9 km

1.61 km

918 m

234 m

174 m

Surfaces

43.7 km

938 m

121 m

105 m

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Highest point (230 m)

Lowest point (130 m)

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Saint-Cénéri-le-Gérei – Castle of the Dukes of Alençon loop from Alençon

Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei — Village and Stone Bridge

Saint-Cénéri-le-Gérei

Saint Symphorien Church

Church of Saint Madeleine

Catholic Church - St. Peter of Montsort ⛪🌟🗝

Castle of the Dukes of Alençon

Saint Leonard's Church

General Leclerc de Hauteclocque Monument

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