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戦争の素晴らしい思い出、戦車が展示されています。

During very high tides, your wheels may be in the water.

Beautiful road through beautiful, living nature.

This former fortified castle was built in the 10th century to protect the city from Breton attacks. Located on a rock, it offers beautiful views over the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel and the Sée valley.

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.

small coastal mountain bike path, the ford of the thorn

This section of road runs along the Sélune estuary. Thousands of sheep feed in the salt meadows. At the aerodrome, they even maintain the runways. At the end of the day, at the ford of the Thorn one can attend their gathering by the shepherd dogs to lead them to the enclosure.

This monument commemorates the passage of the armored vehicles of the 3rd US Army of General George Smith Patton at this crossroads, from July 31 to August 10, 1944, achieving the breakthrough of Avranches. Near the monument, we can see a bust of the American general in tanker uniform, as well as a Sherman M4 tank. This type of 30-ton tank was the main armament of the Allied armored divisions. It was led by a team of five men and was armed with a 75 mm gun and two machine guns.