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Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley
Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley (, literally ''Saint-Georges of Rouelley'') is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France. Geography Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley shares a Natura 2000 protected area, Landes du Tertre Bizet et Fosse Arthour, with two other communes Domfront en Poiraie and Lonlay-l'Abbaye. See also *Communes of the Manche department *Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park (French language, Fr.: ''Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine'') is a protected area of forest and bocage located in the France, French Region of France, regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire. Geography ... References Saintgeorgesderouelley {{Avranches-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domfront En Poiraie
Domfront en Poiraie (, literally ''Domfront in Pear Orchard'') 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 Domfront (the seat), La Haute-Chapelle and Rouellé. Its seat, Domfront, is classed as a Petites Cités de Caractère. Geography The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Le Châtellier, Buais, La Guerdais, Rouellé, L'Hargrinière, La Pichellerie, La Croix Pavée, Saint-Front, Collière and Domfront. It is in size. The highest point in the commune is . The commune is within the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park. Domfront en Poiraie along with the communes of Perrou, Les Monts d'Andaine, Juvigny Val d'Andaine, Dompierre and Champsecret shares part of the Bassin de l'Andainette a Natura 2000 conservation site. The site measures 617 hectares and is home to creatures such as the Bullhead, Brook lamprey and white-clawed cra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communauté D'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie
Communauté d'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie is a ''communauté d'agglomération'', an intercommunal structure. It covers the southern part of the Manche department, in the Normandy region, northwestern France. Created in 2017, its seat is in Avranches.CA Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie (N° SIREN : 200069425) BANATIC. Retrieved 11 November 2024. Its area is 1,543.9 km2. Its population was 87,613 in 2019.Comparateur de territoire [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landes Du Tertre Bizet Et Fosse Arthour
Landes du Tertre Bizet et Fosse Arthour is a Natura 2000 conservation area that is 222 hectares in size. Geography This site is made up of several environmental elements, where there is a mixture of forests, heather moors, rocky points and scree. There are two sectors to the protected area; *The Tertre Bizet moor, occupying the northern slope of a small valley *The Fosse Arthour, an example of a deep cut into the Armorican sandstone and strewn with scree on its sides. It is spread across 3 different communes all within two departments the Orne and Manche; #Domfront en Poiraie #Lonlay-l'Abbaye # Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley This protected site is within the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park. Conservation The conservation area has one species listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive, which is the southern damselfly. In addition the Natura 2000 site has twelve habitats protected under the Habitats Directive The Habitats Directive (more formally known as Council Dir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonlay-l'Abbaye
Lonlay-l'Abbaye () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France, situated midway between the towns of Domfront and Flers. It has a beautiful abbey and town square and is surrounded by walks and scenery, including the local viewpoint Fosse Arthur. Geography Lonlay-l'Abbaye shares a Natura 2000 protected area, Landes du Tertre Bizet et Fosse Arthour, with two other communes Domfront en Poiraie and Saint-Georges-de-Rouelley. Points of interest *Biscuiterie de l'Abbaye - is the factory of the Sablé de l’Abbaye biscuit that was first manufactured here in 1964, which today still produces biscuits and is open for tours. National heritage sites The Commune has two buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique. *Notre-Dame Church: a thirteenth-century church that was registered as a monument in 1931. *Sarcophage creusé dans un rocher à la Thomassière: remains of a Merovingian sarcophagus from the Middle Ages, registered as a Monument historique in 1933. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of The Manche Department
The following is a list of the 445 communes of the Manche department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Périmètre des groupements en 2025 BANATIC. Accessed 28 May 2025. * Communauté d'agglomération du Cotentin * Communauté d'agglomération Mont-Saint-Michel-Normandie *Communauté d'agglomération Saint-Lô Agglo * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parc Naturel Régional Normandie-Maine
Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park (French language, Fr.: ''Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine'') is a protected area of forest and bocage located in the France, French Region of France, regions of Normandy and Pays de la Loire. Geography Spanning the Departments of France, departments of Orne, Manche, Mayenne, and Sarthe, the Normandie-Maine park was created in 1975 with a total area of . As of 2011, the parkland has expanded to a total area of and includes 164 Communes of France, communes with fourteen associated partner communes; the number of inhabitants within the park is approximately 171,000. The park encompasses the Sarthe (river), Sarthe river valley and the large Forêt des Andaines, Forest of Andaines. Conservation areas The park contains seventeen sites that have been listed as Natura 2000 protected areas. Twelve of these protected areas are managed by the park, with 5 being managed by other external bodies. List of Natura 2000 sites wiuthin the Normandie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Communes Of France
A () is a level of administrative divisions of France, administrative division in the France, French Republic. French are analogous to civil townships and incorporated municipality, municipalities in Canada and the United States; ' in Germany; ' in Italy; ' in Spain; or civil parishes in the United Kingdom. are based on historical geographic communities or villages and are vested with significant powers to manage the populations and land of the geographic area covered. The are the fourth-level administrative divisions of France. vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlet (place), hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are ( or ), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers. Except for the Municipal arrondissem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rouellé
Rouellé () is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Domfront-en-Poiraie. 21 December 2015 See also * *Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine
Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park (French language, Fr.: ''Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine'') is a protected area of forest and bocage located in the Fra ...
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Manche
Manche (, ; Norman language, Norman: ) is a coastal Departments of France, French ''département'' in Normandy (administrative region), Normandy on the English Channel, which is known as , literally "the sleeve", in French. Manche is bordered by Ille-et-Vilaine and Mayenne to the south, Orne and Calvados (department), Calvados to the east, the English Channel to the west and north and by sharing maritime borders with the Crown Dependencies of Bailiwick of Jersey and Bailiwick of Guernsey of the United Kingdom to the west. It had a population of 495,045 in 2019.Populations légales 2019: 50 Hérault INSEE History Manche is one of the original 83 Departments of France, established during the French Revolution on 26 February 1790. It was created from part of the province of ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Departments Of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivity, territorial collectivities"), between the Regions of France, administrative regions and the Communes of France, communes. There are a total of 101 departments, consisting of ninety-six departments in metropolitan France, and five Overseas department and region, overseas departments, which are also classified as overseas regions. Departments are further subdivided into 333 Arrondissements of France, arrondissements and 2,054 Cantons of France, cantons (as of 2023). These last two levels of government have no political autonomy, instead serving as the administrative basis for the local organisation of police, fire departments, and, in certain cases, elections. Each department is administered by an elected body called a departmental council (France), departmental council ( , ). From 1800 to April 2015, these were called gene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Normandy (administrative Region)
Normandy ( ; ; ) is the northwesternmost of the eighteen regions of France, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy is divided into five administrative departments: Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne and Seine-Maritime. It covers , comprising roughly 5% of the territory of metropolitan France. Its population of 3,322,757 accounts for around 5% of the population of France. The inhabitants of Normandy are known as Normans, and the region is the historic homeland of the Norman language. The neighboring regions are Hauts-de-France and Ile-de-France to the east, Centre-Val de Loire to the southeast, Pays de la Loire to the south, and Brittany to the southwest. Its prefecture and largest city is Rouen, although the regional council sits in Caen, making Normandy one of two regions in France (along with Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) in which the prefect does not sit in the same city as the regional council. Normandy's name comes from the settlement of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlantic, North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and List of islands of France, many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it Exclusive economic zone of France, one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its Regions of France, eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of and hav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
