Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne Département, Normandy, France

🇫🇷 Mortagne-au-Perche is a commune in the Orne department in Normandy, north-western France. It is classed as a Petites Cités de Caractère.

National heritage The Commune has seventeen buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique. • Hôtel de Longueil a former 15th centaury hotel, it was registered as a monument in 1975. • convent of the Poor Clares of Saint-François a former sixteenth centaury convent, registered as a Monument historique in 1920. • Saint-Nicolas hospital a former sixteenth centaury hospital, registered as a Monument historique in 1997. • Collegiate church of Toussaint a former thirteenth centaury church served by a college of canons, registered as a Monument historique in 1972. • Notre-Dame Church a fifteenth centaury church, registered as a Monument historique in 1910. • Saint-Germain-de-Loisé Church a fifteenth centaury church, registered as a Monument historique in 1972. • Mortagne Hippodrome the three wooden grandstands at this racecourse are the oldest preserved examples in France they were registered as a Monument historique in 1996. The stands are used Each year on the first Sunday in September, for the Orne departmental competition for conformation and gait of Percheron horses. • Hôtel a former eighteenth centaury, it was registered as a monument in 1975. • Hôtel de Fontenay an eighteenth centaury hotel, still in operation, it was registered as a monument in 1975. • Hotel des Tailles an eighteenth centaury hotel, still in operation, it was registered as a monument in 1971. • House of Henry IV a sixteenth centaury house, that Henry IV visited in 1599, it was registered as a monument in 1979. • Dean Toussaint House a fifteenth centaury house built for the dean of the collegiate church, it was registered as a monument in 1975. • The house of the Counts of Perche a seventeenth centaury stately house built on the site of where the counts of Perche resided in the 12th century, it was registered as a monument in 1975. • Birthplace of Alain a nineteenth centaury house where the philosopher Alain was born, it was registered as a monument in 1995. • Turret house a fifteenth centaury house, with a Turret, it was registered as a monument in 1975. • Porte Saint-Denis a twelfth centaury door, revealing a Cart arch that was the entrance to Fort Toussaint, it was registered as a monument in 1975. • Statue of Neptune' located in the garden of the town hall, this statue was created in 1866 by Emmanuel Frémiet, it was registered as a monument in 2006.