Saulges

Saulges is a common French, located in the department of the Mayenne and the area Pays of the Loire.

Geography

History

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

Small city of character, Saulges belongs to the Pays of Art and History Coëvrons-Mayenne.

The canyon and caves

the site of Saulges , classified Natura 2000, is famous for its prehistoric caves and its natural heritage (the canyon of Saulges , on the river the Erve.

The calcareous formation of Saulges is exceptional in the Armorican solid mass by its forms of tunnel erosions and surface of ic type Karst, giving a network of caves in particular: the Caves of Saulges (located on the territories of the communes of Saint-Pierre-on-Erve and Thorigné-in-Charnie). The rock was constituted in a not very deep sea with the Carbonifère (340 million years). Then, taken in crumpling hercynien, it emerged. A long time after, there are 1,8 million years, the Erve dug a valley with the sides precipice, kind of Canyon . By increasing cracks, water dug an underground grid laterally. 20 entries of caves are listed.

See also: Caves of Saulges, Cave Rochefort, Cave Margot, Cave Mayenne-Sciences, Cave of the goat

Web site of the canyon and the caves

Churches

the city of Saulges shelters also two religious buildings, the vault Saint-Pierre and the church Notre-Dame , and a hermitage, rested by saint Cénéré de Saulges.

To see too

Old Lime kiln (1834) restored in 2007.

Old laundrette .
flowered Village: 3 flowers allotted by the National council of the Cities and Flowered Villages of France to the Contest of the cities and flowered villages.

Personalities related to the commune

Céneré de Saulges, holy hermit venerated with the oratorical of saint Céneré (festivals the May 7th and the July 21st);
Louis Hulled grain, priest and hunter of wolves;
Mérolle, Chorévêque of Saulges.

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