Fontenay-sur-Eure Church – Ponds of Fontenay-sur-Eure loop from Fontaine-la-Guyon
Fontenay-sur-Eure Church – Ponds of Fontenay-sur-Eure loop from Fontaine-la-Guyon
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Fontenay-sur-Eure Church – Ponds of Fontenay-sur-Eure loop from Fontaine-la-Guyon
01:42
43.5km
150m
Road cycling
Easy road ride. Great for any fitness level. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: June 22, 2026
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68 m
Fontaine-la-Guyon
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Remains of the famous Louis XIV Canal are present in the Park. On the visible portion of the Canal, about 250m, a cooler, ancestor of cold rooms, bears witness to the vestiges of the past.
A space where nature and history surround you.
source: fontainelaguyon.fr/fontaine/histoire.html
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Fontenay-sur-Eure Church
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Ponds of Fontenay-sur-Eure
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Château des Boulard
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The castle was bought in 2004 by the Boulard family who restored it. Since then, it is possible to rent it for seminars or weddings.
A 22-hectare park surrounds two guest rooms and is home to wallabies and some unusual animals.
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15th-century murals in Saint-Orien church
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They represent a dance of death, symbolizing the confrontation between humans and death.
To have !
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Saint Orien Church
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Located near the old castle moat, the cemetery flanked it, on the north side in place of the current car park and the multi-purpose room, on the south side at the level of the green space currently planted with lime trees.
Originally only the central building existed and the bell tower topped it in its center. This is the reason why at the beginning of the 1980s, the framework began to collapse, weakened by the weight and the marks of time left by the old bell tower. This renovation proved, if necessary, through the design of the framework, the existence of the central bell tower. The time when the bell tower was moved off-center is at the end of the 16th century, beginning of the 17th century.
Concerning the creation of the sacristy and the side chapels, the departmental archives hold a plan of the church, dated August 19, 1853 which clearly indicates the existence of the sacristy and only the north chapel, the construction of the South chapel was therefore not concomitant.
In the masonry, the small Romanesque windows can still be seen, the only one remaining, unwalled, opens to the east and still today offers a light entrance into the apse.
Around the church we notice two types of buttresses, the first, the narrower ones date from the creation of the building, the more massive ones date from the 18th century, placed as reinforcements
Neo-classicism at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century left its mark on this building.
Outside, as we have seen, by the addition of the sacristy as well as the small side chapels now forming a transept.
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Église Saint Luperce
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Perhaps it was originally a bell gable, later augmented by a platform supported by these machicolations?
In front of the entrance, a small building called a "caquetoire" (a small meeting place) allows the faithful to gather and converse.
Inside the church, the furnishings date from the 18th and 19th centuries:
a marble high altar and its gray-painted wooden altarpiece (18th century) – a painted wooden altarpiece of St. Joseph (late 18th or early 19th century)
an altarpiece for the altar of the Virgin Mary (19th century)
a baptismal font in red-veined marble (19th century)
a waxed wooden pew (18th century)
a waxed wooden choir stall upholstered in velvet
paintings: the Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Octave Hauser (1839) and the Annunciation (18th century)
The stained-glass windows date from 1874.
The church and the eclipse
A bit of history:
The parish, established in the 13th century, was part of the deanery of Courville. The church's patron saint, Luperche or Luperchius, gave his name to the village. We must go back to the 4th century to find the first trace of this saint: At that time, Dacius, governor of the part of Spain that included Catalonia, Aragon, and the Kingdom of Valencia, was one of the most cruel ministers of persecution. Incited by the emperors Diocletian and Maximilian, he had eighteen confessors of Jesus Christ executed in the city of Zaragoza. In their honor, the poet Prudentius wrote hymns, and among these confessors, a certain martyr named Luperche became the patron saint of our church.
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The banks of the Eure
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43.5 km
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Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
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43.0 km
188 m
151 m
107 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
43.1 km
217 m
< 100 m
< 100 m
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