Selection of the most beautiful monuments in the Hauts-de-France

Château fort
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.

Château fort
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.

Chapelle romane
60129 Orrouy

The ruins of the Romanesque chapel of Champlieu, a religious building of the 11th and 12th centuries in Orrouy (Oise), bear witness to an ancient parish and prior church, linked to a Marian pilgrimage and the Brunehaut roadway, a major medieval road.

Château fort
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.

Château fort
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.

Abbaye
59550 Maroilles

Maroilles Abbey, a former Benedictine abbey founded around 650, is located in Maroilles, Hauts-de-France. This historic monument, partially destroyed during the Revolution, preserves a mill and a tithe barn from the 16th to the 18th century.

Cité ouvrière classée MH
02120 Guise

The Familistere de Guise, built in the 19th century in Aisne, is a utopian social palace designed by Jean-Baptiste André Godin to house its workers in innovative conditions, mixing collective housing, cooperative and social services.

Château de style Classique
02300 Blérancourt

Blérancourt Castle, built in the 17th century in Blérancourt in the Hauts-de-France, is a former seigneurial castle housing today the Franco-American museum, surrounded by thematic gardens.