Aubigné-Racan

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Commune of Aubigné-Racan
Administration
Country	France
Région	Pays de la Loire
Département	Sarthe
Arrondissement	La Flèche
Statistics
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Aubigné-Racan is a town and commune in the Sarthe département of France, in the région Pays-de-la-Loire.

The town has a romanesque church from the 11th century.

Aubigné-Racan is the site of the archeological excavation of Cherré, a Gallo-Roman complex of 20 hectaires from the 1st to the 3rd centuries. The site was likely a rural center of commercial and religious activity before the Roman conquest. Excavations in 1977 by C. Lambert and J. Rioufreyt discovered an ancient theatre, two temples, Roman thermae, a forum and an aqueduct.

In the surrounding countryside, one can also find prehistoric standing stones, or dolmen ("dolmen de la Pierre" and "dolmen du Colombier")

Aubigné-Racan is the birth place of the 17th century poet and dramatist Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan. The place of his birth, the Manoir de Champmarin, is still standing.