Porte Saint Denis – Castle of the Dukes of Alençon loop from Dorceau
Porte Saint Denis – Castle of the Dukes of Alençon loop from Dorceau
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Porte Saint Denis – Castle of the Dukes of Alençon loop from Dorceau
06:31
138km
770m
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Hard road ride. Very good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.
Last updated: April 10, 2026
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Saint-Germain d'Auxerre Church
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In the choir, we can see a beam of glory with Saint John and Saint Mary Magdalene.
The south chapel contains an altar, a tabernacle and an 18th century altarpiece as well as a painting of Saint Barbara.
You can also admire a 16th century Virgin and Child and bird (gift from the Jouvin family) and the 18th century baptismal font is framed by two paintings. A Damien organ from 1859, with original 13-note pedal board, still plays. A large textile fresco was embroidered by the Benedictine sisters.
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Porte Saint Denis
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Favorite holiday resort of the Counts of Perche and their wives, Mortagne-au-Perche is indeed endowed with a remarkable historical heritage with 17 sites listed in the inventory of historical monuments. The heart of the city shelters the clearly visible architectural traces of a former walled city: including the Porte Saint-Denis, the Crypt Saint-André (remains of the former Collegiate Church of Toussaint), but also the Cloister and the Chapelle Saint- Francois. It is still possible to walk along its ramparts, to discover its cobbled streets and alleys, its walled gardens, ... specific to medieval cities.
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Ste Thérèse family home 💒✨
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General Leclerc de Hauteclocque Monument
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Alençon Courthouse
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Castle of the Dukes of Alençon
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Saint Leonard's Church
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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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Catholic Church - St. Peter of Montsort ⛪🌟🗝
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83.6 km
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2.98 km
341 m
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108 km
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