Pont-Bellanger

Geography

The commune is located on left bank of Vire, on the tourist site of the throats of Vire, upstream Pont-Farcy.

History

Administration

Demography

source: http://www.insee.fr/fr/ffc/docs_ffc/psdc.htm (Population without double accounts).

Monuments

Castle of 16th and 19th centuries.

Church of the 19th century, which was one of the more disaster victims of the department by the storm of December 26th, 1999, the bell-tower, of which part of its masonry, having fallen on the roof from the church. Bridge-Bellanger depended before the 14th century on the parish on Saint-Martin-Gift whose inhabitants, to excuse the delays of the inhabitants of Bridge-Bellanger to the mass, would have called them the “Tousloins”.

Events

Each year, the festival committee of the commune organizes a lamb barbecue to gather the inhabitants of Bridge-Bellanger like those of common the neighborhoods. The festival is always a success since it brings together 500 people approximately from one year to another only for the meal. Indeed, this lamb barbecue is animated by plays which oppose in a friendly way the members of the festival committee to those of the surrounding communes: Seven-Brothers, Campeaux, Landelles-and-Coupigny, Pont-Farcy, Holy-Marie-Laumont, etc the shooting with the cord, the tournament on a slipping beam located above a swimming pool improvised starting from cover and bales of straw and other plays quite as strange attract each year accustomed this local fair. A good means to keep the alive commune and to bind the inhabitants of a long friendship.

Births

Death

See too

Common of the Apple-brandy

External bonds

Bridge-Bellanger on the site of the national geographical Institute
Bridge-Bellanger on the site of INSEE
Bridge-Bellanger on the site of Quid
Localization of Bridge-Bellanger on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Bridge-Bellanger on Mapquest

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