Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the Ardennes

Vestiges de la Guerre 14-18
08370 La Ferté-sur-Chiers

La Ferté is a small fort on the Maginot line, built between 1935 and 1937 at La Ferté-sur-Cheers (Ardennes), marking the northern end of this defensive line. Designed for 106 soldiers, it was destroyed in May 1940 during violent fighting.

Fortification
08230 Rocroi

The fortifications of Rocroi, built between the 16th and 19th centuries in the Ardennes, form a bastioned, star-shaped enclosure, a strategic symbol of the north-eastern border of France.

Maison forte
08240 Bayonville

The castle of Landreville, an ancient 16th century fortress in Bayonville (Ardennes), is a rare example of the Ardennes seigneurial residence of the Pre-Renaissance, surrounded by moat and classified as a historical monument.

Chartreuse
08390 Le Mont-Dieu

The Chartreuse du Mont-Dieu, a 17th-century cartreux monastery located at Le Mont-Dieu in the Ardennes, is a historical vestige classified as a historical monument, marked by elegant architecture and a turbulent history since its foundation in 1132.

Château fort
08200 Sedan

Sedan Castle, built in the 15th century in the Ardennes, is the largest medieval fortress in Europe (35,000 m2). Located in Sedan on a rocky spur overlooking the Meuse, it combines defensive architecture and princely palace, a witness to Franco-European conflicts until the 19th century.

Fort
08600 Givet

Charlemont Fort, built in the 16th century at Givet (Great East), is a bastioned fortress overlooking the Meuse, marked by changes in the 17th and 19th centuries under Vauban and Séré de Rivières.

Maison espagnole
08500 Revin

The Spanish house of Revin, a 16th century building, is a rare architectural testimony of the Spanish occupation in the Ardennes. Located on the banks of the Meuse River, it now houses the Old Revin Museum.

Halle
08220 Saint-Jean-aux-Bois

The hall of Saint-Jean-aux-Bois, built in the 3rd quarter of the 18th century, is one of the last halls preserved in the Ardennes, classified as a historical monument in 1981 in this village of the Grand Est.