Sarthe: what to see and do
21 sites listed in the département. Land of the Maine, the Sarthe cultivates a world-famous motoring heritage around Le Mans and its 24 Hours, as well as a rich medieval heritage with its Plantagenet city. Green valleys and abbeys complete this Loire identity.
La Vallée de la misère
Saint-Léonard-des-Bois is a more modern town built in a cirque of rocky escarpment.
Le Mans
Prefecture of the Sarthe, known worldwide for its motor race, whose Cité Plantagenêt preserves one of the largest Gallo-Roman enclosures in France.
Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes
These high walls reveal to the attentive walker that the little priory, founded in the eleventh century, threatened with annihilation at the Revolution, then revived by the Benedictine Order established by Dom Guéranger in the nineteenth century, has become a great abbey, mother of many monasteries in France and beyond its borders.
Carnuta, Maison de l'Homme et de la forêt
Château de Ballon
Château de Courtanvaux
Château de Gallerande
Château de Montmirail
Château du Lude
At the crossroads of Anjou, Maine and Touraine, Le Lude counts among the great Loire châteaux.
Domaine de Pescheray
La Forêt de Bercé
The Bercé forest lies 11 km north of Château-du-Loir on a plateau at 150 metres' altitude.
Musée des 24 heures du Mans
The Musée automobile de la Sarthe is a French museum near the main entrance of the 24 Hours Circuit, in Le Mans.
Musée du Vélo - La Belle Echappée
Muséotrain de Semur en Vallon
Palais du Grabatoire
Papéa Parc
Sittellia, espace aqualudique
In the heart of the Parc des Sittelles, your Sittellia centre welcomes you all year round for moments of sport, relaxation and conviviality.
Source de l'Hermitière
Spaycific'Zoo
Transvap
This line, called "the Dukes' line", was at the end of the nineteenth century the flagship of the departmental-interest railway lines.
