Piacé: Holiday Apartments and Holiday Homes

Art and Architecture

In Piacé, the Piacé le radieux art trail features 60 works, including micro-architectures, sculptures, and installations. The trail is accessible year-round. Piacé le radieux is an art center for contemporary art, architecture, and design and is connected with a utopian project by Le Corbusier and Norbert Bézard.

The temporary exhibitions at Piacé le radieux are located on the ground floor of the Moulin de Blaireau. The Moulin de Blaireau is a former grain mill dating from the 18th or 19th century. Its garden contains the Grange noire, a former sheep barn that hosts exhibitions, performances, readings, and concerts.

Those who choose Piacé as a place to stay may wish to rent a holiday apartment.

Historic Sites

The Chapelle priorale Saint-Léger in Piacé is listed as a historic monument; it was listed on November 28, 1988. The Chapelle Saint-Léger is a 13th-century chapel on the site of a former priory dependent on Saint-Vincent Abbey in Le Mans.

The Notre-Dame Church is also part of Piacé’s historic character: it combines an original section from the 11th and 12th centuries with a 19th-century Neo-Romanesque section.

Landscape and Trails

The “vallée de la Bienne” footpath is one of the hiking trails listed in Piacé. The Bienne Valley is listed in Piacé as a landscape element of heritage interest. Likewise, the Île du Moulin area in Piacé is listed as a landscape element of heritage interest. One footpath is classified in Piacé as an ecologically interesting feature.

Other places to choose from: Dissay-Sous-Courcillon, Saint-Rémy-De-Sillé, Aigné, Vallon-sur-Gée, Courdemanche, Vinay, Sainte-Osmane, Tresson.

To the main travel overview: Sarthe.