Carrefour du Chêne au Verdier – Sherman tank loop from Arçonnay
Carrefour du Chêne au Verdier – Sherman tank loop from Arçonnay
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Carrefour du Chêne au Verdier – Sherman tank loop from Arçonnay
03:03
48.0km
370m
Cycling
Hard bike ride. Good fitness required. You may need to push your bike for some segments of this route. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.
Last updated: May 1, 2026
Tips
Includes a segment that may be dangerous
A part of this route comprises technical, difficult, or hazardous terrain. Specialist equipment and prior experience may be required.
After 21.9 km for 22 m
Waypoints
Start point
Bus stop
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3.53 km
Footbridge over the Sarthe and park
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20.5 km
Carrefour du Chêne au Verdier
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The latter, victim of lightning, was condemned to disappear.
It was decided to give it a second life, in the form of a totem this time!
The carvings represent a ranger, an owl and an eagle,
guardians of the forest.
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21.9 km
Madame's Cross
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26.6 km
Sherman tank
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32.2 km
Necropolis of St Nicolas des bois "Les Gateys
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Address: 81 L'Ermitage, 61250 Saint-Nicolas-des-Bois
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This memorial, located in the heart of the Écouves Forest, contains the graves of 19 soldiers of General Leclerc's 2nd Armored Division (DB), who died for France during the fighting for the liberation of Alençon and the Orne department in August 1944.
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The cemetery was inaugurated on August 15, 1989. The remains of the soldiers, initially buried in various municipal cemeteries in the Orne department, were grouped together there. Latin crosses, Muslim headstones, and Stars of David are found there, reflecting the diverse origins of the soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division.
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42.8 km
Castle of the Dukes of Alençon
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43.5 km
Bike lockers in Alençon city center
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44.2 km
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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48.0 km
End point
Bus stop
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
30.2 km
6.78 km
5.31 km
5.12 km
513 m
< 100 m
Surfaces
27.4 km
14.8 km
4.85 km
612 m
266 m
< 100 m
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Elevation
Highest point (420 m)
Lowest point (130 m)
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