モンソー周辺のアトラクション＆必見スポット - トップ8

This part of the greenway is really in a pitiful state. Holes, stones, moss.... the other part up to Fougères is new.

a great discovery during the hike.

sublime facade. a nice break in the hike

beautiful basilica

interior of the basilica of Pontmain

Place of pilgrimage for Christians where the Virgin Mary appeared to the Barbedette children in 1871.

Place of pilgrimage for Christians at the place where the Virgin Mary appeared to the Barbedette children in 1871 https://www.sanctuaire-pontmain.com/

This polisher, dating from around 4,000 BC, is a quartz block of modest size, 1.25 m by 0.50 m, barely level with the grass. On its surface, there are a dozen parallel grooves and a basin. The bowl was used to polish flints and the grooves to sharpen the edges of axes. Excavations have uncovered polished axes, one of which is jade. The place is also called "Pierre de Saint-Benoît". Because according to one of the legends attached to this monument, it would be Saint Benedict petrified: the pink veins that run through the block would be the veins of the saint and the grooves his ribs. The water in the basin is said to have curative and febrifuge properties: feverish people came on pilgrimage, sprinkled themselves with this water and placed offerings in the grooves, hoping for the cure of their ailments. It is reached by a little busy and very pleasant little road.