Orne
Orne (; or ) is a département in the northwest of France, named after the river Orne. It had a population of 279,942 in 2019.France
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. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes of L'Épinay-le-Comte,
Passais
Passais (; also: ''Passais-la-Conception'') is a former Communes of France, commune in the Orne Departments of France, department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Passais Villages.Saint-Siméon.
Points of interest
*Combles de la chapelle de l'Oratoire de Passais is the attic of the l'Oratoire de Passais chapel, which is listed as a
Natura 2000
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conservation site. The chapel roof contains a nest of
Greater mouse-eared bat
The greater mouse-eared bat (''Myotis myotis'') is a European species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
Description
''Myotis myotis'' is a large bat with a long, broad muzzle and big, long ears. The body's dorsal side is brown to reddish-br ...
s, which are listed in Annex 2 of the
Habitats Directive
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.
National heritage sites
The commune has four buildings and areas listed as a
Monument historique
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.
*Devil's Table Dolmen a
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...
dolmen
A dolmen, () or portal tomb, is a type of single-chamber Megalith#Tombs, megalithic tomb, usually consisting of two or more upright megaliths supporting a large flat horizontal capstone or "table". Most date from the Late Neolithic period (4000 ...
, it was registered as a monument in 1973.
*L'Épinay-le-Comte Manor a twelfth-century manor house, registered as a
Monument historique
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in 1940.
*Manoir de la Guerinière a fifteenth-century manor house, registered as a
Monument historique
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in 1975.
*Menhir du Perron a Neolithic
Menhir
A menhir (; from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large upright stone, emplaced in the ground by humans, typically dating from the European middle Br ...
, registered as a
Monument historique
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in 1926.
See also
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Communes of the Orne department
The following is a list of the 381 communes of the Orne department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):