SAINT-JEAN-DES-VIGNES ABBEY
Visit to discover the ruins of a remarkable abbey full of history in ...Read more
VAUCLAIR ABBEY
12th-century Cistercian abbey with chapter house, refectory and medicinal ...Read more
BASILICA OF ST. QUENTIN
Basilica considered as a place of international fame because of its ...Read more
PARK OF ISLE AND ANIMALIST
A park for wallabys and other animals, with play areas and views over the ...Read more
REMAINS OF THE CASTLE OF THE LORDS OF COUCY
An opportunity to discover the castle, with its ramparts, circular towers ...Read more
SAINT-GERVAIS AND SAINT-PROTESE CATHEDRAL
Cathédrale Saint-Gervais-et-Saint-Protais de Soissons, offering a free or ...Read more
THIÉRACHE SPORT NATURE
Read moreThis association, which specializes in activities and stays in the heart of nature, has some nice surprises in store for you. Canoeing, archery, climbing, geocaching, mountain biking, multi-sport raids, nature outings, orientation: there is always something to enjoy in this magnificent and preserved setting. Multi-activity trips based on different themes (the water cycle, fauna and flora, wetlands or the impact of human activity on nature) allow for multiple discoveries. On the Oise river, calm and accessible to all, you will enjoy a descent that alternates between drossages, gravel pits and small rapids. Tuna is a more maneuverable and wild course on which you will appreciate the crossing of the mills marking the descent and which offer small thresholds. Climbing enthusiasts will be delighted to discover the natural site of the Pas-Bayard rocks, located in the middle of the forest with about thirty routes from level 4a to 7a. An indoor climbing room is also available. The Thiérache Sport Nature base is the guarantee of a good time with family or friends!
The pond and the Blangy waterfall
A rejuvenating stopover in the heart of nature to relax or play with the ...Read more
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Read moreA magnificent library, set in the old St. Martin Abbey. Through a large and majestic staircase, you will reach the floor and the large number of funds available to the library: manuscripts, incunables and old print; local newspapers and books; more than 25 000 contemporary books in direct lending (90 000 in indirect lending), as well as current month periodicals, dictionaries and encyclopedias…
SAINT-FERREOL ABBEY
Church of pure gothic style organizing visits, exhibitions, meetings, ...Read more
FATHER'S CASTLE
This building dating from the 13th and 16th centuries in Gothic and ...Read more
MUSEUM OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
Museum dedicated to Fine Arts, and presenting one of the first collections ...Read more
AMERICAN COAST MEMORIAL 204
Monument commemorating the involvement of American troops in the First ...Read more
REMAINS OF THE MEDIEVAL CASTLE
One of the jewels of medieval defensive architecture in the heart of the ...Read more
OUTLET CANAL
Read moreThe staff of the Ourcq Canal was considered in order to supply firewood and construction. Work began in 1560, along with the construction of reservoirs, including the ponds of La and a system of flotation and locks. Proof that toll is not a modern invention, at that time a right was payable to borrow the canal. It is said that Leonardo da Vinci would have carried out the first lock tests on the river Ourcq…
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE MUSEUM
Museum allowing to rediscover all the fables thanks to innumerable supports ...Read more
MUSEUM OF RESISTANCE AND DEPORTATION
A museum with Tourism & Handicap accreditation, presenting the ...Read more
RUINS OF THE CASTLE OF LOUIS DUKE OF ORLEANS
The castle's façade is 102 metres long and 28 metres high.Read more
JACKDAW NOTHING TO DECLARE
Read moreVisit the locations of Dany Boon's film, Nothing to Declare. Relive the border crossing between Macquenoise (Belgium) and Hirson-Forêt (France). The atmosphere of the film is tremendously well recreated, thanks in particular to André Meunier, a true local figure! You will learn more about the territory, about various products such as Chimay beer or maroilles and about filming. Eight years after the film's release, the places, which have been transformed into a small museum, still attract many visitors, so that in 2017 the team created an escape game called "The Office". Locked in the customs offices, your team has 60 minutes to find the keys to the famous 4L of the film in order to escape the customs chief. The success has been such that, since then, two other escape games have emerged: "Le Garage" and "L'Enquête". A frank part of laughter in perspective.
THE FORT OF THE MALMAISON
Read moreBuilt in 1878 on the plans of Séré de Rivières, the Fort of Malmaison was fiercely contested throughout the conflict due to its strategic position. A German cemetery in 1939-1945 is close to the fort.
OFFICE DE TOURISME DE SAINT-QUENTIN
Tourist office, near the Grand-Place of Saint-Quentin, with a dynamic team ...Read more
BARBARIAN MUSEUM
Read moreThis is one of the most exciting museums. An essential stop that will captivate young and old alike. Unique site in France, the museum is interested in a period that extends from the 5th to the 8th century. The atmosphere of the place is particular and the visitor quickly immerses himself in this little-known period. The Museum of Barbarian Times shows archaeological treasures discovered more than 25 years ago in the territory of Goudélancourt-les-Pierrepont. A necropolis of 400 tombs and several isolated dwellings had been discovered there. Today, reconstructions are available and we appreciate the many explanatory panels that guide visitors to the heart of history. Enjoy the immense park that hosts the village of Les Francs, where regularly, great events take place, such as the Viking week or the Roman and Barbarian weekend. Fighting will be presented to you: great show guaranteed!
FRESCO JEAN JAURÈS
Read moreThe monumental work of Jérémy Amate, a young Parisian artist, was made with the black chalk and coal. The gaze of Jaurès spread over 30 m in length and 11 m high. Impressive. In the 100 years of the disappearance of Jean Jaurès, Hirson wanted to pay tribute to the French humanist. In front of the small school that bears the name of the member, this great memorial wall captures attention. A detonating fresco that does not pass unnoticed in the local landscape.
VICTOR HUGO FRESCO
A large-scale fresco by a Ukrainian-Hungarian painter to decorate the Place ...Read more
THE FLORENTINE TOWER
Read moreClassified as a historic monument since 6 November 1995, this concrete concrete work of French architect Gustave Umbdenstock and Engineer Raoul Dautry is over 45 metres on six floors. Built in 1920-1921, the tower was a referral station from Hirson station. Art Deco bricks and ceramics complement this magnificent witness of the past. Surprisingly distinctive, its style recalls northern belfries. It is possible to approach the monument as close as possible to impressive photos.
THE HOUSE OF THE ENVIRONMENT NATURE RESERVE
Read moreThe nature reserve of the Isle of Isle is nature in the heart of the city. A few minutes walk from the centre, the visitor is surrounded by wild and semi-wild nature. Located in a wetland area of approximately hectares, part of which is devoted to water sports and fishing, the reserve presents a wide variety of species in the moving waters, and a particularly rich avifauna of breeding birds or seasonal hosts: butternut, posh, coot, rousserolle, fauvette and, in times of migration, many ducks, sandpipers, curlew… The farmhouse allows visitors to observe chickens, ducks, sheep, peacock, geese, kids, lambs and ponies. A few steps away, the Wild Wildlife protection centre treats injured birds (kept out of the public eye). The Environment House, at the entrance to the park, regularly hosts exhibitions on local fauna and flora. Site tour by a peripheral path, guided every first Sunday of the month.
TOURIST RAILWAY OF THE VERMANDOIS
Chemin de fer du Vermandois offering a ride on a small tourist train to ...Read more
THE MAIL
Read moreLike an island between the Ourcq and its canal, the mail is a beautiful walk that belongs to the city of Paris since the th century. The river is bordered by a footbridge built by a young engineer from the city of Paris, unknown at the time, named Gustave Eiffel. On either side of the bridge and the tower belonging to the former city hall, you can see: on the left, the garden of the property of the Sconin, the property of Jean Racine, and the right, the garden of the property Héricart, where La Fontaine is married.
THE MARINE
Read moreYes, La Marne, if one sometimes tends to forget it, is one of the most important assets of the commune. A few years before the Revolution, in 1784, when men hijacked it from its original bed to gain ground, the river caused significant flooding, which was repeated in the early th century. The preferred solution was to lift the right bank. But if his relations with man were sometimes tense, they also gave rise to beautiful works, including beautiful bridges, including the one built by François I, with 9 arches.
LA FERME DES CAPRICES DE SIDONIE
Amazing farm that offers a guided tour of a rather atypical farm in ...Read more
MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS ANTOINE LECUYER
Visit the Musée Antoine-Lécuyer, to admire exhibitions of Italian, Nordic ...Read more
MUSEUM OF THE ACADEMIC SOCIETY
Read moreThe Academic Society, which is essential for historical research as well as the preservation of the local heritage, has housed in its premises a little known museum, which presents an important collection of more than 300 silex, Pointes and Levalllois points, but also microlithes and pointes pointes, or even polished stone axes of the Neolithic.
PARC DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES
A superb park of the "Champs-Elysées" with a horticultural garden and ...Read more
GARDENS OF OLD HOUSES
The site is located at the head of a Romanesque church, with a park ...Read more
VERMONT MUSEUM
Read moreSet in the old mill of the village, this museum presents the result of excavations carried out in the territory of the commune, the Gallo-Roman site. There are also collections of fossils and an exhibition of objects from the excavations of a Gallo-Roman necropolis. Religious art is represented here with his sacerdotal clothes accompanied by objects of worship and piety, and presentation of uniforms of soldiers, officers and civilians from 1870 to the present. The Musée des métiers d'antan re the workshop of the carpenter, the blacksmith, the marshal-farrier. A not miss: a real Ali Baba cave of the 1950 s.
THE MUSEUM TOWER
Tower-museum located in Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique for a visit not to be ...Read more
THE VICTOR HUGO FOUNTAIN
Read moreEven though the work may still be debated in the city - some will say that it swears in the landscape - the Victor Hugo fountain is still in place and animates Victor Hugo's place of its many jets of water, summer. Realized in 1990 by artist Patrick Saytour, also known for its decorative and utilitarian objects, the fountain was completely restored and consolidated in 2012. An astonishing contemporary creation, a kind of theatrical parody of art, to you to form your own opinion on this fountain that continues to divide!
THE OLD MAN CRACKS
Read moreA few kilometres after the village exit, a sign indicates «Old Craonne», there is nothing, green meadows, groves… old Craonne was completely razed during the First World War. It was rebuilt 500 metres lower thanks to Sweden's financing. At the location of the old village and above many cellars was erected a arboretum of remembrance which counts fifty-seven species such as tulip of Virginia, giant Redwood, vineyards, bucolic… Currently managed by the National Forestry Office - NFB -The arboretum is, on the one hand, a place of memory and allows, on the other hand., amateurs of botany to discover a remarkable flora. It was in the cemetery of old Craonne that the famous writer Yves Gibeau wanted to be buried.
BASQUE MONUMENT
The Monument des Basques is an original representation of the fighting men ...Read more
THE STATUE OF NAPOLEON
Read moreThis statue of Napoleon I am the work of Georges Thurotte, who sculpted it in 1974. It recalls the victory acquired on 7 March 1814 by the French armies in Craonne on the Russian armies and prussian, then commanded by General Blücher. The statue was raised on the location of the mill of Vauclair, which served as an observatory during the battle. The wedding of the statue with the landscape is magnificent.
CHAPEL - CHEMIN DES DAMES MEMORIAL
Chapel dedicated to the memory of the fallen soldiers of the First World ...Read more
OFFICE DE TOURISME DU PAYS DE LAON
Tourist office offering a discovery of the treasures of Laon and its ...Read more
FAMILY'S PLEASURE GARDEN
A garden that used to allow the cultivation of personal plots, now ...Read more
FORTIFIED CASTLE
Former castle, the vestige is a keep dominating the valley of the Oise, ...Read more
REGIONAL MUSEUM OF AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY
A museum exhibiting fossils and agricultural machinery from prehistoric ...Read more
JEAN-RACINE MUSEUM
The Musée Jean-Racine in La Ferté-Milon features a wealth of documents ...Read more
THE CRYPT OF THE ABBEY OF SAINT-MÉDARD
This crypt is made up of a dozen chapels served by a central corridor.Read more
ART AND HISTORY MUSEUM - SAINT LÉGER
Museum located in the former Saint-Léger Abbey, presenting the history of ...Read more
CONDORCET MUSEUM
Read moreThe birthplace of Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was built at the end of the th century by the family of Gaudry, the maternal branch of Condorcet. It remains private property until 1989, the date of its acquisition by the commune of Ribemont. Opened in 1994 to 1998, and fully restored from 1998 to 1999, it has been reopened to the public since June 2000. This museum is composed of seven rooms, the life of Condorcet and other famous native Hommes. The visitor will also find a history of the municipality.