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Les Tourailles

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Country
  
France

Department
  
Orne

Canton
  
Athis-de-l'Orne

Local time
  
Thursday 1:16 AM

Region
  
Normandy

Arrondissement
  
Argentan

Area
  
246 ha

Population
  
67 (1999)

Les Tourailles

Intercommunality
  
Communauté de communes du Bocage d'Athis

Weather
  
5°C, Wind NE at 5 km/h, 97% Humidity

Les Tourailles is a commune in the Orne département and the region of Normandy in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Athis-Val-de-Rouvre.

Contents

Map of 61100 Les Tourailles, France

Geography

  • Watercourses: The river Rouvre.

    • History

  • Notre-Dame de la Recouvrance chapel, departure point for pilgrimages since the 9th century.

    • Sites and monuments

  • Basilica of the Notre-Dame de la Recouvrance chapel, completed in 1939.
  • 16th-century castle keep, a good ensemble with two pavilions.
  • Bridge of Tourailles, the remains of a Roman bridge.
  • Pilgrimages on 8 September and 31 May.

    • People associated with Les Tourailles

  • Antoine de Montchrestien (born Falaise, Calvados 1570, died Les Tourailles 1621). Poet and author. Known by the name of 'Vatteville'. He tried to revive the religious wars of the sixteenth century but was killed when making a traveller's stop in Les Tourailles.

    • References

    Les Tourailles Wikipedia
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