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Distance : 20.7 km
Walking - Duration (average): 5h
Walking - Level: Difficult
Départ : PEZE-LE-ROBERT

Situated on the edge of the Armorican Massif and the Paris Basin, this route takes in the Champagne Conlinoise, the Sillé bocage and the Sillé national forest.

From the church in Pezé, dedicated to Saint Martin (a stained glass window recalls the episode of the sharing of the cloak), head towards Ségrie and Beaumont, then turn right.

Heading south, you will discover a plain landscape. Vast open plots of farmland stretch across the Champagne Conlinoise, the limestone soils being ideal for growing wheat. If you turn north, you'll discover a slope that is mostly covered in meadows surrounded by hedgerows (bocage), where the slope and shale soils are less suitable for farming. The forest of Sillé overlooks the whole area. The south is the Paris Basin, the north the Armorican Massif.

Near the door to the nave of the church at Saint-Rémy-de-Sillé, outside the church, the remains of a wall are visible, probably the remains of an ancient Gallo-Roman temple.

By choosing such a location, Christianity was asserting its desire to succeed the pagan religion once and for all. The Romanesque style of the church has led to it being listed as a historic monument.