Les Guides

Chamina

Version française : Les Eglises fortifiées de la Thiérache
 

Travel guide - Historic sites, walks and tours

The guide:

• 48 pages
• Map of the Thiérache
• This guide contains all the tourist information you need to discover the Thiérache at your own pace and in your own way, including eight fortified churches selected out of a total of over sixty in the region.

For car and bicycle tours:
Rendezvous pages 12 and 13 to discover the sites of the selected churches.

On foot:
Take a look at the guide's six short, easy walks of 20 to 60 minutes that will take you through picturesque villages.

Set in the village centres, the massive red-brick churches are a prominent feature in the bocage landscape that covers the plateaux and valleys in the Thiérache region. In years gone by these brick and stone church keeps guarded the villages; today they exemplify a military architectural style that created imposing churches within whose walls lay a formidable system of defence ready to protect the local population from any number of possible terrors...