Sources de Mortain

Sources de Mortain in Mortain-Bocage, Manche, Normandy, France, offers ferruginous and bicarbonate mineral spring waters whose iron-rich character creates the dramatic visual spectacle for which the area is known—the Grandes Cascades de Mortain, the highest waterfalls in Normandy at 25 meters, where the iron-bearing spring waters tint the rocks, vegetation, and pool margins with vivid orange and rust coloring that contrasts strikingly with the granite boulders and green Normandy forest. The ferruginous mineral character of the spring reflects the iron-bearing geological formations of the Armorican Massif's ancient granite and metamorphic rocks, whose iron mineral content gives the spring water its distinctive orange coloration within a long thermal tradition. The 25-meter cascade with its iron-stained rocks, combined with the mineral spring heritage, creates a Mortain visit of exceptional natural geological drama in the bocage landscape of inland Normandy.