Fontaine-les-Bassets

Commune in Normandy, France

(2020–2026) Patrice Verrier^[1]Area5.88 km² (2.27 sq mi)Population111 • Density19/km² (49/sq mi)DemonymFontenoisTime zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal codeElevation67–111 m (220–364 ft)
(avg. 81 m or 266 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Fontaine-les-Bassets (French pronunciation: [fɔ̃tɛn le basɛ]) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Geography

The commune has the River Dives running through it, as well as the Guerard stream.^[3]

Notable buildings and places

National heritage sites

The Commune has 2 buildings and areas listed as a Monument historique

• Château à Fontaine-les-Bassets an eighteenth Century Chateau registered as a Monument historique in 1984^[5]
• Dolmen dit Pierre-Levée a Neolithic dolmen registered as a monument historique in 1934^[6]

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  Château de Fontaine-les-Bassets
• 
  Pierre-Levée Dolmen

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

References