Bécon-Les-Granits: Holiday apartments and holiday homes

Bécon-les-Granits focuses on the granite of the region and makes it accessible in an unusually vivid way. At the Musée du Granit, a 1.5-hour guided tour takes visitors through a 500-square-metre exhibition.

Culture

The Musée du Granit has four exhibition rooms that explain the secrets of granite quarrying. The museum also includes an outdoor area with monumental and exceptional pieces of granite, as well as equipment and machinery from earlier times.

The buildings in the town also preserve traces of history. The Château de Landeronde in Bécon-les-Granits is partly classified as a Monument historique and partly listed as a Monument historique. The Château du Bois-Guignot includes a 19th-century chapel and a dovecote.

The importance of the material extends beyond the town: granite from Bécon was used to pave the Champs-Elysées.

Trails and landscape

The Sentier du Bocage is a hiking trail in the heart of Bécon’s bocage landscape. Another signposted route is called “Le tour de Bécon en 80 minutes” and is marked on the ground.

The Sentier du Granit includes remnants of the local Petit Anjou railway. This railway operated in Loire-Atlantique and Maine-et-Loire until 1948.

Activities

Maïtaï Plongée in Bécon-les-Granits offers introductory scuba diving and underwater snorkelling for families with children aged 8 and over. Fins, snorkel and wetsuit are provided.

At Maïtaï Bécon Plongée, diving courses range from the first introductory dive to training as a diving instructor. Maïtaï Bécon Plongée is located in a former granite quarry.

Anyone wishing to rent a holiday apartment in Bécon-les-Granits is thereby choosing the type of accommodation for their stay.

Other destinations in the same broader area: Montrevault, La Chapelle-Sur-Oudon, Vezins, Chemillé-Melay, Baugé En Anjou, Tillières, Bauné, Beaufort-En-Vallée.

For the overview of destinations in the broader area: Maine-Et-Loire.