Travel Guide Saint-Pierre-Sur-Orthe

This commune of the Mayenne of 450 inhabitants, deployed in a hilly and hilly region, south of the Coëvrons massif is close to Sillé-le-Guillaume and rich in source that nourishes drinking water the surrounding communes. The forest of Sillé, higher in altitude, forms a natural border between Saint-Pierre, also dominated by the timber of Clairet, and the department of Sarthe. The commune experienced its demographic apogee in the nineteenth century, while the activity of the lime kilns of the hamlet of la Boissière was at full speed, with 2,400 inhabitants in 1856. More ancient than lime ovens, Saint Peter's Church is of Romanesque origin. His eighteenth century stalals and the Rosary Institution painted in 1627 by Jean Duhay and painted in 1745 by Claude Bouchard are classified as objects to Historical Monuments.