The Rock of Oetre

The Rock of Oetre is located within the center of Norman Switzerland, inside the commune of Saint Philbert sur Orne, now not a long way from the border among the departements of Calvados and Orne, and almost equidistant from Thury Harcourt and Ecouche. It is one of the most prestigious lookouts within the west of France. The environmental recognition of the Orne departement, the Rock of Oetre harbours numerous species of plants and animals rare in France. The spring spergula or spurrey , the European inexperienced lizard and plenty of species of lichen. These are very susceptible to being trampled, so traffic need to keep to the marked trails. The brink, a new timber pavilion turned into opened in May 2006.

It offers site visitors local vacationer information, a museum, library and keep, and a bar-restaurant. The museum space might be used to allow visitors find out the Mountains of Normandy with an interactive landscape, legends and objects about the long geological records of the oldest mountains in Europe, the Armorican Massif, from how, thousand million years ago, they had been extra than 5 km. above sea stage, to their gift 417 metres.