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Arrival and information
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The hub of Le Mans today is the
place de la RA©publique
, with its assortment of Belle A?poque facades, fountains and more modern office blocks. Beneath the square in the underground shopping centre is the city
bus terminal
; buses #3, #5 and #16 run between here and the
gare SNCF
via avenue GA©nA©ral-Leclerc, where the
gare routiA?re
is located. From place de la RA©publique, rue Bolton leads east into rue de l'A?toile, where you'll find the
tourist office
(Mon-Sat 9am-6pm, Sun 10am-noon, July & Aug also Sun 2-6pm; tel 02.43.28.17.22, fax 02.43.23.37.19) in a turreted seventeenth-century building on the corner with avenue de la PrA©fecture.
Bikes
can be rented from Top Team, on place St-Pierre in the old town, or from MA©tayer Loisirs, 73 av Jean-JaurA?s (the continuation of rue Nationale). Other useful information
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France,
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