Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei

Corot, Courbet and Harpignies were all drawn to Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei, a granite outcrop in a wooded loop of the Sarthe, and from 1875 to 1908 artists filled the Moisy sisters' inn. Stone houses step down to the river and a four-arched bridge, while the Romanesque church above keeps frescoes that lay under plaster for some two centuries.

Highlights

• Romanesque church with 12th- and 14th-century frescoes, rediscovered after centuries
• Auberge des Sœurs Moisy museum and its Room of the Beheaded silhouettes
• The 15th-century chapel of Saint Céneri, alone in a riverside meadow
• The stone bridge, where a metal screw marks Normandy's border
• Jardins de la Mansonière, a garden open to visitors

Text adapted from Wikipedia (Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei (FR), Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei (EN), Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei (IT)), Wikivoyage (Saint-Céneri-le-Gérei). Available under CC BY-SA 4.0.