Rémalard en Perche
Rémalard en Perche is a commune in the department of Orne, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of Bellou-sur-Huisne, Dorceau and Rémalard.
Geography
The Commune along with another 70 communes shares part of a 47,681 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Forêts et étangs du Perche.Points of interest
- Boiscorde Arboretum is a 15-hectare arboretum featuring over 500 trees.
- La Petite Rochelle is a 1 hectare botanical garden, open to the public which is classified as a classified as Jardins remarquables by the Ministry of Culture and the Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France.
- Carrière de la Mansonnière is a Natura 2000 conservation site measuring 0.17 Hectares. The site is a former quarry, used between the middle ages and early twentieth centaury which now hosts five varieties of bats, listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive, which are the Lesser horseshoe bat, Western barbastelle, Geoffroy's bat, Bechstein's bat and the Greater mouse-eared bat.
National heritage sites
The commune has 11 buildings and areas listed as a monument historique.- Saint-Laurent Church, an eleventh-century church in Dorceau.
- Château de Voré, an eighteenth-century chateau in Rémalard.
- Manoir de Brigemont, a sixteenth-century manor house in Rémalard.
- Le Chatellier Castle Motte, a strategic site for William the Conqueror in his conquest of the Lordship of Bellême in 1077.
- Manoir des Touches, a sixteenth-century manor house in Dorceau.
- Rémalard Church, a twelfth-century church.
- Manoir de Vaujour, a sixteenth-century manor house in Rémalard.
- Voré Tilery, a former tile factory in Rémalard, thought to date from 1828.
- New Farm, a twentieth-century farm in Dorceau that was built to breed the Percheron horse.
- Manoir de Boiscorde, a fifteenth-century manor house in Rémalard.
- Motte castrale dite Le Château, a raised circular enclosure on what was built a shell keep. In 1077, this castle was under siege from William the Conqueror when his son, Robert Curthose locked himself up there.
Architecture contemporaine remarquable
- L’Hermitage - is a hexaganol plan house built in 1949 by architect Gage André, in 2007 it was given the label of Architecture contemporaine remarquable.