Travel Guide Villenauxe-La-Grande

All along the promenades of the tour de ville, a bucolic green belt planted on the line of the ancient ramparts, the murmur of the water will accompany your steps and whisper to you all the life that the wave has seen flow by over time. On your way out, with your guide from the tourist office, the diaphanous, luminous transparencies of the stained glass windows created by David Tremlett for the church of Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul will illuminate your souls with their colored lights. On the other side of the church, at the Espace Patrimoine, you may be lucky enough to come across a "cul-blanc" or a "gueule grise" who will take you back in time to the great industrial epic of the arts of fire and clay extraction. As you leave, turn left around the corner and you'll come straight to Hervé Bazin's former home, which he so aptly described in Vipère au poing, and where he made "Folcoche" live. After admiring one of the town's half-timbered houses in Place du Delta, you'll pass the pink-fronted Maison Jacob, and a few steps away, opposite the Giberot ceramics workshop-boutique, you'll admire what was once the Benedictine abbey. Having rejoined the promenades via the little rue Saint-Pierre, you'll stop for a moment at the 1870 war memorial, whose shape and stones have a particular history that your guide will be sure to tell you about. You won't be able to resist the pleasure of letting the waves guide you back to the town center along the Noxe and its spillway.