Travel Guide Villaines-La-Carelle

In the north-west of Perseigne Forest, this sarthoise commune of 160 inhabitants is deployed on a wooded and wild territory with rich biodiversity that is worth classifying on its territory in several natural areas. It houses part of the valley of the Rutin, classified Natura 2000 site, rich in orchids, hibernation cavities, Coteau Regional Natural Reserve and Tessé Plateau protecting 5.5 ha of limestone limestone shelter of 15 plant species from the Red List of the Loire Countries almost 40 species of butterflies, some of them rare. Added a built heritage in the village. You can see the Gothic church of the sixteenth century dedicated to Saint Rémy and its stained glass windows representing angel angels, in the tympan of the great glass of the southern chapel, a statue of Saint Martin of the seventeenth century, a nineteenth-century presbytery, the entrance of a mushroom from the beginning of the twentieth century. century and town wash. Finally, it is in the village of Villaines-le-Carelle that the culmination of Sarthe (341 m) and its belvedy is located.