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Château d'Avranches and Hortus, Garden of the Passeurs

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Château d'Avranches and Hortus, Garden of the Passeurs

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Château d'Avranches and Hortus, Garden of the Passeurs

Name: Château d'Avranches and Hortus, Garden of the Passeurs
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Location: Manche, France

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1. Le Val-Saint-Père – Basilica of Saint-Gervais loop from Le Val-Saint-Père

25.1km

01:58

370m

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2. Basilica of Saint-Gervais – Èglise Saint-Saturnin loop from Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme

39.3km

03:20

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3. Basilica of Saint-Gervais – Saint-Saturnin Church loop from Avranches

44.7km

03:35

690m

Hard bike ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly paved surfaces. Suitable for all skill levels.

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Willem VS

March 7, 2023

The Château d'Avranches was built around 950 by Onfroi Le Dane, on the remains of the old Roman walls. Located on a rock, the fortress could monitor the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel and the various invaders made no mistake and occupied it; Celts with the Abrincates, Romans, Saxons, then Franks. A succession of enclosures and ditches were added to it. The Roman keep unfortunately disappeared in the last century. The top of the curtain forms a platform at the same level as the terrace. A diagram, made by Canon Pigeon, shows how keep and curtain wall were connected. This is also verifiable in a document kept in the Calvados Archives. Another detail should be noted, it is impossible to access the terrace from inside the building. Passages were obstructed after a collapse of the upper level of the building, at an undetermined time. Today, at the top of a crenellated curtain wall, one discovers a panorama over the bay and the valley of the Sée, in the heart of the various Avranchinese districts.

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Location: Manche, France

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Château d'Avranches and Hortus, Garden of the Passeurs

1. Le Val-Saint-Père – Basilica of Saint-Gervais loop from Le Val-Saint-Père

2. Basilica of Saint-Gervais – Èglise Saint-Saturnin loop from Saint-Quentin-sur-le-Homme

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