Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Picardie

Castle
02380 Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

Coucy Castle, built in the 12th and 13th centuries in Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique (Hauts-de-France), was a medieval fortress renowned for its 54-metre dungeon, destroyed in 1917. Today in ruins, it bears witness to the exceptional military and seigneurial architecture.

Castle
02130 Fère-en-Tardenois

The castle of Fère-en-Tardenois, built in the 13th and 16th centuries, is an ancient castle in ruins located in Fère-en-Tardenois (Aisne, Hauts-de-France), famous for its Renaissance gallery bridge and medieval heptagonal enclosure.

Renaissance style castle
02460 La Ferté-Milon

The castle of La Ferté-Milon, an unfinished 14th century vestige in La Ferté-Milon (Aisne), dominates the valley of Ourcq. Ranked a historic monument, it bears witness to an ambitious military architecture abandoned in 1407.

Castle
02130 Seringes-et-Nesles

The castle of Nesles, remains of a 13th century castle, stands in Seringes-et-Nesles (Aisne, Hauts-de-France). Ranked a historic monument, it illustrates the philippian architecture with its quadrangular enclosure and eight symmetrical towers.

Castle
02600 Villers-Cotterêts

The castle of Noüe, built in the 13th century in Villers-Cotterêts (Hauts-de-France), is a fortified mansion renovated in the 15th, 16th and 19th centuries, combining medieval architecture and Renaissance, surrounded by a enclosure and equipped with a monumental dovecote.

Castle
02200 Pernant

The castle of Pernant, ancient medieval fort of the 14th century, dominates the village of Pernant in the Aisne. Transformed into a strong house and then into a castle of pleasure, it is now a classified vestige of Hauts-de-France, marked by the destructions of 1918.

Castle
02120 Guise

The castle of Guise, built in the 10th century in Guise (Hauts-de-France), is a medieval fortress transformed in the 16th and 17th centuries into a bastioned citadel, a witness of 1,000 years of French military history.

Donjons
02200 Septmonts

The Donjon de Septmonts, built between the 13th and 16th centuries, is an ancient episcopal castle located in the Aisne, in Hauts-de-France, marked by medieval and Renaissance architecture, surrounded by moat and classified as a historical monument.