Things to see and do Vallons-De-L'Erdre

By visiting the Château de la Motte-Glain, we will stop at the church of the Old Hamlet, classified as a historic monument and located in Saint-Sulpice-des-Landes (D 878). It houses, the largest painted ensemble of the Gothic era of the Loire-Atlantique. The bright windows of the southern facade with windows lime suggest that its construction would take place at the beginning of the th century. Like the paintings using the wet process - hot glue paint, carried out on a dry background - in use in the Middle Ages. The Appearances of Christ, The Escape in Egypt, the Résurrection Resurrection… are represented. The chair dates back to 1784 and the curious Roman baptistery with double Tank.

On the Great beacon path, a few hundred metres from the forest trail, you will discover the right-hand oak on the nails. It is a 500-year-old tree that is supposed to have curative powers against espoir of humans. This oak would be the only survivor of a group of oaks slaughtered before 1742, it is now isolated in the midst of younger subjects. With a circumference of 4,20 metres to 1 metres from the ground, it is distinguished by a niche attached to its trunk which houses a Virgin to the Child, and especially by a trunk covered with hundreds of nails. In the past, the word nail designated furuncles; and popular tradition attributes to this oak the power to heal these painful conditions. A former pagan rite was practised: it was about coming alone, at night, sheltered from eyes, rubbing coffin nails against the sick part of his body; Then take seven times the tower of the tree, send a prayer to the soul of the tree, plant the nails in the trunk on the face that never see the sun. The rite ended with hindsight and welcoming the tree.

Incredible but true, Joel and Annick Tusseau have completely rebuilt a village in the 1950 s. This couple held a masonry company and had empty premises following their retirement. It was after participating in a village party in 2001 that they started collecting all sorts of objects on the theme of the 1950 s. In the museum, we discover a classroom that really existed, with its stove, its maps of geography and its encriers, but also a dairy, a room, a bistro ("Café de la Barre David"), promotional material of the time, tools of the farm, etc. The couple Tusseau sharing his childhood memories, and so just call to book. So if you want to immerse yourself in the world of the Choristers and the Petit Nicolas, don't hesitate!