Moulins-La-Marche: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

The Fête des Potiers in Moulins-la-Marche takes place every year and reached its 35th edition in 2026. It brings together potters and local craftspeople with their ceramic creations and demonstrations. The festival also includes pottery workshops for children, where participants can make their own creations and take them home.

Those who choose Moulins-la-Marche for their stay may be planning to rent a holiday apartment.

Culture and History

A stele commemorating resistance fighters who fell in combat was erected at Clos Mottet in 1949. Medieval traces include the Moulins-la-Marche motte, which was probably built in the mid-11th century with several rings of fortifications and a summit platform for a wooden keep, several buildings, and a chapel.

Les Fossés le Roi is a linear fortification in the Norman border territory. Henry II Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and King of England, ordered its construction; the fortification complemented an existing line of castles that had already been reinforced under Henry I Beauclerc.

Culinary Delights

The recipe for Moulins-la-Marche brioche was invented by Raymond Fanouillet in 1973. The original shape of the Moulins-la-Marche brioche was created through a vote between the two bakers and the pastry chef who were working there at the time.

Events and Leisure

Moulins-la-Marche has an innovative practice course for learning to ride a bicycle. Horse races take place at Hippodrome Jean Gabin for three days each in June, July, and September. The grandstands and natural elevations of Hippodrome Jean Gabin offer views of the Perche River.

More local pages: Boucé, Banvou, Fel, Putanges-Pont-Ecrepin, La Ferrière-Bochard, Trun, Neuvy-Au-Houlme, Marchemaisons

For the broader travel overview: Orne.