Cesson-Sévigné

Population

Culture

Sights

• The cultural centre.
• Bourgchevreuil Manor, in the centre of the town.
• The church.
• The Museum of Communications here Ferrié which opened in 2004 near the ESAT in the technology center of Rennes Atalante.
• Chalotais Manor.
• The course of the river Vilaine, formerly named "rue de la Mairie," is the main artery of the old Cesson. It is bordered by a set of simple houses or shops in stone, in an alignment giving a remarkable perspective view.
• "Castle", manor house and barn of Fresnerie.
• Church, built in 1902.
• The Gaudaie Manor.
• Castle Cucé, historic monument with perimeter protection; it is beyond the Menouriais, on the border with Chantepie.
• The natural site of the Vilaine and old bridges. Facing the Calvaire, there is a fourth bridge, smaller and obscured by an embankment in recent years.
• The site of the park and La Monniais with its grand house in the English style, nicknamed the castle, and farther along the road, the old manor. This site has served as a stone quarry.
• The Dézerseul ponds, a nature reserve created by the town in 1973 for recreation and leisure, composed of 40 hectares.
• The port of Cesson, leaving over the Vilaine, at the intersection with the Rue de Rennes, which it faces. Its heyday was at the beginning of the eighteenth century, with the transport of stone extracted from Cesson, for the reconstruction of Rennes.
• From Fresnerie to the Vilaine, through the course of Vilaine, the walker can discover flying bats, pipistrelles and other birds. All these species, as well as their habitats, are protected. They nest in the stone walls and under the roof of the old houses, hunt around the trees and on the Vilaine.

  International relations

• Waltrop, Germany since 1984
• Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland
• Dan-Kassari, Niger

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