1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Bellême (French pronunciation:[bɛlɛm]ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France.[3] It is classed as a Petites Cités de Caractère.[4] The musicologist Guillaume André Villoteau (1759–1839) was born in Bellême, as was Aristide Boucicaut (1810-1877), owner of LeBon Marché, the world's first department store. This town is possibly the origin of the English and French surname Bellamy.
Location
At the heart of the Parc Naturel Régional du Perche, in the Orne Department, Bellême is on a hill that dominates the Perche area.
Governors House - 17th to 19th Century house built from the Hotel De Fontenay.[10]
City gate entrance - Built in the 15th Century[11]
Clock Tower - 13th Century polygonal tower and the only remaining parts of the old city walls.[12]
Landscape
The town is built around the crest of a natural bowl, in which sits an outdoor lido (swimming pool), moto-cross circuit, stables and an expansive 18-hole golf course with adjacent hotel and holiday apartments.
Events
Les Mycologiades internationales : Annual international wild mushroom festival.
The town's football club, FC Pays Bellêmois, compete in the Ligue de Football Basse-Normandie and the Coupe de France, playing their home games at the town's Terrain Intercommunal.
Moto Club Bellêmois hosts motocross events that welcome an international field of competitors.
Augustin de Romanet de Beaune (b. 1961) a French political advisor and business executive, chief executive officer of Groupe ADP was a municipal councillor here for 19 years.[18]