1. Vitré to Le Bourgneuf-la-Forêt

The present appearance of the Church of Our Lady, which was rebuilt between about 1440 and 1580, is that of the 15th and 16th centuries. As a transitional building between the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance, it adapted to changing taste: in the flamboyant Gothic decor, Renaissance ornamental motifs are discernible (left side of the south façade).
We are in the presence of a so-called "multi-gabled" church: the multiplication of the gables on the aisles, pierced by wide windows, allows the light to shine more broadly on a building without high windows.
The main facade, on the west side, is less elaborate than the one on the south side. It was in fact masked by the Great Cloth Hall, made of wood, which was replaced after the fire of 1886 by a butter hall made of cast iron and bricks, destroyed in the 1960s.
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The present St. Martin's Church is in neo-Romanesque style. It remains to this day the most important neo-Romanesque building in Ille-et-Vilaine. Construction began in 1883 and the building was consecrated in 1895. It is likely that its framework is made of metal, a framework to which rubble was grafted. This technique, practiced since the 1850s, had the triple advantage of a fast, inexpensive and solid construction.

St. Martin's Church was not yet erected as a parish at the beginning of the 15th century. It was however in the centre of one of the first vitreous suburbs, as early as the end of the 11th century. It was destroyed at the end of the 1880s, while a new St. Martin's Church was built further south and west. However, the old bell tower, known as the Tour du Vieux-Saint-Martin, was preserved.
Together with the three other bell towers of the town, with the high towers of the castle and that of the Bridole, it is one of the monuments that give Vitré its very special silhouette.

Launched in 1982, the role of the Haute Vilaine water body is to protect the Rennes agglomeration against winter floods. It also provides a reserve of drinking water for the Rennes and Vitré basins and supports low water flows to ensure the quality of La Vilaine's water during the summer.

The present parish church was built from 1841 by the architect Charles Langlois15 , its tower being completed in 1843; it was blessed on 15 May 1844 by Mgr de Saint-Marc, Archbishop of Rennes. Its choir, in the form of a polygonal apse, was rebuilt in 1872.

In 1905, Mr. Mellet, the architect of the castles of the Vitré region, erected at La Chapelle-Erbrée a surprising building in this rural village with no significant Gothic heritage.
It is in the style of a neo-Gothic edifice, used since the end of the 19th century in medieval towns with a rich past such as Vitré, Fougères, Redon or Saumur.

The building was built in 1636.
The church has a Latin cross plan. In the 19th century, the flat chevet of the choir is decorated with a five-sided sacristy and the bell tower was built. On the facades, René Godard's coat of arms is sculpted in a roundel on granite shields.
If the church is open visit the interior with the Monument to the Dead of the Great War.

Built in 1857, this castle is made of coated stone.

The very modest church has a magnificent bell tower which enhances if the church is open discover its statuary and painted wooden ceiling and a beautifully decorated interior.