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Randonnée Pierres et Nature à Mellé

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A hike in the region Bretagne

Art, stone, nature... They are the elements of this open-fields hike to discover landscapes and architecture of Brittany. This walk, proposed by Pierres et Nature, is marked out with educational panels that shed light on the relationship between nature and architecture.


1- Go down on the road D14 in the direction of Louvigné. At the housing estate Beauséjour, turn to the left toward Le Teilleul. Continue on this road up to a track in the descent on your right-hand side.
2- Go on this track which will lead you to the belvedere. By-pass the former quarry and continue up to the road D14.
3- Arrived on D14, turn first to the right and then to the tarred track on your left, in the direction of La Hérissais. Continue up to the old farm.
4- By-pass the hamlet by the right-hand side, continue on the track which goes along the brook. Cross the road and continue up to come back to the road.
5- Turn to the left then take the road D108 on your right-hand side. Walk up in the direction of the manor house Haute Vairie. Then go down the tarred track, cross the brook and continue up to the house of a master quarryman and the former workshops of "picaous" (stone-cutters).
6- Take the road to the right and go in the wood in which lay the cliff of the Devil (a stair goes up to the top). Continue up to the road.
7- Take to the right, cross the hamlet of Le Haut Rocher. Continue on the road, and after the hamlet of La Croix de Larcher, turn twice to the right in the direction of the hamlet of La Martais.
8- Take the road at the end of the hamlet and come down towards Le Moulin du Mellé. Turn to the right at the end of the track.
9- Take the road on your left, go through the hamlet of Villeneuve and continue up to a crossroads. Turn to the right, after the hamlet of Bérangerie turn to the right to go down to the manor house of Les Bas Domaines. Retrace your steps to get back to the road and turn to the right. At the crossroads, turn to the right to join the starting point.

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General points

  • Geographic situation. District : Mellé (department Ille-et-Vilaine, canton Louvigné-du-Désert)
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  • Starting point : Centre of the village, house Pierre and Nature, place of the church.
  • The length of the stroll is estimated at 9,8 Km and the walk duration is about 3 h .
  • The stroll is marked out all along
  • Stroll form : loop
  • Stroll relief : flat (alt. mini = 145 m ; alt. maxi = 195 m)
  • Maintenance : frequent (brushwood clearing at least annual)
  • Exposure : varied (both covered and uncovered areas)


Noteworthy places

Village de Mellé. The previous history of the village would go back up to the Gallic time: the etymology of the name, "Mell", means mound in Celtic. It has also been acknowledged the presence of a Roman way that it was deemed to have been overlapped by the road D108. The existence of the parish of Mellé in the XIIIth century is testified by a manuscript in the abbey of Savigny.
Eglise Saint-Martin de Mellé. Church from the XVth-XVIth centuries, enlarged in the XVIIIth by the addition of two chapels, a sacristy, and the tower of the bell tower.
Manoir des Bas Domaines. Family mansion with a pond.
Manoir de la Haute Vairie. Manor house dating from the XVth-XVIth centuries with a XVIIth century chapel.
Granite. The granite that one can observe in this hike belongs to the massif of Fougères-Louvigné-du-Désert, one of the numerous granitic massifs between Brittany and Normandy. The formation of this massif is very old since it goes back to the final precambrian (600 million years), at the time of the Cadomian orogeny.


Maps

Carto Exploreur 35 Nord, IGN 1316 E.

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Randonnée Pierres et Nature à Mellé
(code number : MELLE01001)
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