La Roche de Murs

Crossed by the Louet and the Aubance rivers, Mûrs-Erigné offers diversified landscapes thanks to its location in the alluvial valley from the left bank of the Loire river and on slaty hillsides.

Tourist places :
- Old sand port: the extraction of sand “from Loire” began in the 19th century and was managed by the Allory family from 1882. Since the end of the 20th century, sand extraction along the Loire river’s course is forbidden.
- The Republican monument, built in 1889, is a symbol of La Roche-de-Mûrs’s history and reminds the Republican concepts of freedom, equality and fraternity, where 600 Republicans died, some by throwing themselves down the cliff, during the battle “contre les Blancs”, the 26th of July 1793.
- The blockhouse built during winter 1942-1943 was the centre of the system implemented in Érigné by the Kriegsmarine based in the château de Pignerolles in Saint-Barthélémy-d’Anjou.

Equipment at your disposal :
- Picnic tables on the route

Departure point :
- Sablierport, chemin des Prés in Mûrs-Érigné

Practical information :
- Trail not passable during floods

Circuit marked out in mauve.