Things to see and do Picardie

In order to build this theatre in the 19th century, it was necessary to demolish in 1842 the Hôtel du Cornet d'Or, Hôtel des 3 Poissons and Hôtel de l'Ange, as well as the old theatre. Designed by the architect Guy de Caen, it was completed in 1844. Typical of Italian-style theatre, it has a facade derived from Greek art, sculpted in 1854 by Matagrin and Cléron. Until 1914, there was a performance every day: operetta, opera, vaudeville, and it was sold out. It is still today a popular venue for shows.

A veritable autonomous fortress, located east of the fortified enclosure giving access to the castle, the building consists of two massive towers of rectangular plane forming galleries, finished in the east on the side of the attack by finger finger at right angles. These two defensive elements, stuffed the entrance passage without covering it completely, to ensure a direct defence. " The existence of finger finger, the operator apparatus of the masonry, the exposed sas shows that this door is the culmination of research carried out by the royal engineers, at the end of the th century. The door Saint-Jean takes place in the vicinity of the doors of Mortes Dead and Carcassonne, which it adopts, by improving the characters " (Jean Mesqui, Ile de France Gothic).

Located outside the medieval enclosure, they date back to the th century after Jesus Christ, when the city called Augustomagus, that is, the «Augustus market». Under the Mérovingiens, they served as a quarry of stones, from dumping to excavations in the late th century. In Gallo-Roman, its stands could hold up to 12 000 people. They disappeared, their stones being reused in the construction of the city. On the other hand, the vomitoirs, corridors that led to the stands and their floors remained visible.

Towers adorned with statues depicting the horse, put in place, by the architects in memory of a legend claiming that a miraculous white beef would appear in the sky to help men assemble materials from the lower city to the high city. From there, the visitor will be touched by the grace of the high city.

This is a building that has suffered. And again, since after having suffered a fire in the 2008 th century and then during the Hundred Years War, the abbey once again fell prey to flames in. It was built in the century by Brunehaut, a queen merovingian. Her church was built in 1175. The pediment of the Germain house was restored in the th century by Jean Carpentier, the last secular abbot of the abbey.