Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the East

Fortified farm
08600 Foisches

Foisches Castle, a former 17th-century fort house in Foisches (Ardennes), combines defensive architecture and farming in a unique regional style.

Castle
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.

Baroque Church
08190 Asfeld

The church of St Didier d'Asfeld, built in the 17th century in the Ardennes, is a unique baroque jewel in the shape of a viola de gamba, classified as a historical monument since 1913.

Fortified Church
08250 Saint-Juvin

The church of Saint-Juvin, a 17th-century fortified building in Saint-Juvin (Ardennes), combines military and religious architecture with its turrets and thick walls, reconstructed identically after 1918.

Fortified farm
08130 Charbogne

The fortified farm of Charbogne, a defensive building of the 16th and 18th centuries, stands in the heart of the Ardennes village. The Quadrilatère, with its corner towers and moat, illustrates Renaissance military rural architecture.

Strong
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.

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.

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.