Distance: 15.5 km
Average duration) : 01h
Level: Medium
Val-d'Izé
Labeled FFRandonnée
Follow yellow markings (PR)
Possible links with Mecé and the Corbière forest
Good bocage paths in a slightly hilly countryside dotted with houses of character.
Your itinerary
Val-d'Izé
Good bocage paths in a slightly hilly countryside dotted with houses of character.
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The old church became town hall. In Val d'Izé, there are 2 bell towers. The oldest of the two is that of the Saint-Etienne-des-Eaux church, from the 1902th century. Its name refers to its location near a marshy area. It is also for this reason that the architect Henri Mellet would have rebuilt elsewhere, at the top of the village, a new church. However, nothing explains the unusual choice of the municipality, to convert the old building into a town hall in XNUMX... Not to be missed inside: the mosaics of the Odorico brothers, an Italian family living in Rennes, who worked in throughout the West at the end of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries.
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The Jactiere
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Saint-Etienne Church. In 1896, the parish of Izé undertook with the architect Henri Mellet, the construction of a new church. In sandstone, schist, granite and brick, this one is in the neo-Romanesque style, just like the Saint-Martin de Vitré church. Its construction ended in 1924.
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The pond of Noë is a private wetland of 38 ha, classified in ZNIEFF (Natural Zone of Ecological Floristic and Faunistic Interest). It is home to various protected plant and animal species. It is a favorable environment for the nesting of a dozen species of birds and an interesting wintering area for ducks: mallards, winter teals, whistlers, tigernuts, pochards and tufted.
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On the facade of this house, rue Saint-Martin, we can see in a projecting window 2 statuettes representing Saint-Etienne and Saint-Martin.