Le Mans - Musée de Tessé

In Le Mans, immediately northeast of the theater, in a park, is the former Bishop's Palace, now occupied by the Musée de Tessé, with a large collection of pictures. Among other items of interest is an enamel panel, made in Verdun between 1145 and 1150, from the tomb of Geoffrey Plantagenet.

To the west of the old town, on the right bank of the Sarthe, is the former abbey church of Notre- Dame-du-Pré, a fine Romanesque building (11th and 12th C., restored) with an impressive crypt.