Aubigné-Racan

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Coordinates: 47°41′29″N 0°16′07″E / 47.69138, 0.26861

Commune of Aubigné-Racan
Location
Administration
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Sarthe
Arrondissement	La Flèche
Canton	Mayet
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes Aune et Loir
Mayor	Michel Royer (2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation	37m–118m (avg. 31m)
Land area¹	32.03 km²
Population² (1999)	2,138
- Density	66.74/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	72620/ 72800
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: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

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

[edit] Sights

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 hectares 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")

[edit] Miscellaneous

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.

Coordinates: 47°41′N, 0°16′E