Montsecret tourism and travel guide

Visit Montsecret: highlights and tourist information

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Montsecret is situated in the Orne department and Normandy region, in the north of France at 70 kilometres from Alencon, the department capital (general information: Montsecret is 222 kilometres from Paris).

Popular places to visit nearby include Vire at 16 km and Domfront at 23 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.

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Montsecret, France: places to visit and attractions

Some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Montsecret in Normandy.

Note that all distances below are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater!

... or see ALL recommended places to visit in Orne

Map of places to visit near Montsecret

Markets in and near Montsecret

• Flers: market Wednesday & Saturday (10km)
• Conde-sur-Noireau: market Thursday (11km)
• Vire: market Friday (16km)
• Sourdeval: market Tuesday (20km)
• Aunay-sur-Odon: market Saturday (25km)
• Briouze: market Monday (25km)
• Thury-Harcourt: market Tuesday (25km)
• Villers-Bocage: market Wednesday (32km)
• Bagnoles-de-l'Orne: market Wednesday & Tuesday & Saturday & Friday (33km)
• La Ferte-Mace: market Thursday (33km)

More information about Montsecret, Normandy

Tourist attractions near Montsecret, France

What to do at Montsecret? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Montsecret.

National Monuments

• Carrouges Chateau (47km)

Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour)

• Domfront (23km)

Regional Natural Parcs

• Normandie-Maine (48km)

Churches and religious monuments

• Abbaye de Cerisy-la-Forêt (Cerisy-la-Foret) (48km)
• Abbaye de Caen (Caen) (49km)

Remarkable gardens

• Jardins du château de Vendeuvre (48km)
• Parc floral de Haute-Bretagne (60km)

Sites of natural beauty

• Rochers des Parcs (20km)
• Forêt de Saint-Sever (27km)
• Roches de Ham (37km)
• Forêt de Cerisy (46km)
• Prairie (Caen) (47km)
• Jardin des plantes de Caen (49km)
• Forêt de Fougères (57km)

Villages d'etape

(recommended place to break a long journey)

• Villers-Bocage (32km)
• Torigni-sur-Vire (35km)
• Villedieu-les-Poeles (40km)
• Ducey (49km)

Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)

• Domjean (34km)
• Saint-Fraimbault (35km)

Zoo and/or wildlife park

• Parc zoologique de Jurques (23km)

Geography and distances

Getting here

Montsecret is in the north of France. Most visitors arrive in one of the cross-channel ferry ports with Caen being especially close, typically within an hours drive. For driving distances to Montsecret from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.

We have 12 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Bernieres-le-Patry, Caligny, Cerisy-Belle-Etoile, Clairefougere, Frenes, La Bazoque, La Lande-Patry, Landisacq, Moncy, Rully, Saint-Pierre-d'Entremont and Tinchebray.

This page in French: Visiter Montsecret