Discoverthe historic centre of Alençon
When friends and family come to visit, I like to show them around Alençon’s pleasant historic centre, with its multi-faceted architecture, hidden courtyards, narrow streets lined with graceful granite or timber-framed houses and pretty banks of the Sarthe.
The town was lucky enough not to have been bombed during the Second World War, so it has retained a rich built heritage: old timber-framed houses and shops dating back to the Middle Ages, town houses from the 17th and 18th centuries and other 19th-century monuments including the elegant Corn Exchange.
The superb flamboyant Gothic porch of the Notre-Dame Basilica always makes an impression, and the visitors are sure to come away smitten!
