The Bois Guy castle, a beautiful Renaissance home and a subtle blend of grey granite and slates provides a pleasant stay.
After having reached the verdant banks of the river Nançon you will enter into the beech clusters of the Fougères forest where the ruined dolmens and a megalithic alignment called « Lardon des Druides » can be seen.
You will find back the river Nançon at the foot of the medieval castle of Fougères, a stronghold at the borders of France and Brittany.
After having visited the Bonne Fontaine castle you will reach the town of Antrain perched on a promontory at the confluent of the Loisance and Couesnon. The sloping streets lined with XVIth and XVIIth century houses liven up on market days.
The visitor cannot visit this Brittany area without being impregnated by the atmosphere of the places that Chateaubriand was about to discover with the French Romantism . The sweetness of the landscape contrasts with the former Du Guesclin castle looking like a fortress which towers the old town of Combourg.
The legendary menhir of Champ-Dolent thanks to its imposing sizes will signal the vicinity of the former Bishop’s city : Dol-de-Bretagne. The Saint-Samson cathedral which was first built in the XII th century illustrates the importance of the Bishop’s place.
You will cross the marsh to climb the Mont Dol (65 metres) so as to distinguish le Mont Saint-Michel at the heart of this flat country still flooded by the ocean only a few centuries ago.
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