Maison De La Lanterne Combourg Alexandre Lamoureux 710There’s no better way to visit the Petites Cités de Caractère® of our Destination than on a guided tour, and Combourg is no exception. Let me guide you through the streets and history of the town to prove it to you…
We begin our guided tour in front of our Tourist Information Office, which today stands next to the Post Office but which, at one time, was part of the Combourg girls’ school.This is an opportunity for me to talk about the Petites Cités de Caractère label, which is sometimes still rather misunderstood, but also the origins of the Combourg name. I then invite you to take a look at the beautiful Notre Dame church, sometimes nicknamed the cathedral church because of the splendour of its neo-Gothic architecture, and the street of the same name lined with pretty bourgeois houses with a variety of shops.
It’s also along this street that we’ll contemplate the enigmatic façade of the Maison de la Lanterne; this 16th-century mansion only reveals part of its secrets when you look at the dates inscribed on its stone lintels, so we’ll try to discover them together.
