Every year, 7 1/2 million of rose bushes are sold, and, in mid-July, one can admire some 100,000 rose buds that are being displayed, representing large numbers of different types of roses grown in the region. These "Day of the Roses" take place in magnificent & historic caves. Since 1999, a park was opened displaying 800 varieties of this flower.

Doue La Fontaine sits on numerous caves called "troglodytes" and on quarries of "falun." These grottos are exceptionally well-kept. Some have been made into museums, some in showrooms, and some into dwellings. Situated 4 kilometers from town, the Zoo of Doue La Fontaine is partly built within the network of the "troglodytes. "Recently, a cave containing sarcophaguses was unearthed.

In the region the castle of Brézé with its hundreds of metres of gallery, the Cellar St-Maur and the underground working of a mushroom bed, as well as the Cellar in sarcophaguses and the troglodytique village of Rochmenier learn you of numerous and rich secrets on the life of our ancestors.

Whether below or above ground, Doue La Fontaine will delight you with its historical past and beauty of the present