Welcome to fère-en-tardenois

Fère-en-Tardenois welcomes you all the year, you will discover strange places: the castle, its bridge gallery and its door Jean Pin of 16th, Markets, Hottée of the Devil, the feudal castle of Nesles, the literary circuit of Paul and Camille Claudel, ways of hiking, many demonstrations.

Duration: 2:00

This route, presented by guide guide of  tourist office in Fère-in-Tardenois, takes along the visitor of Villeneuve-sur-Fère to Hottée of the Devil for the discovery of a ground traversed with passion and had the childhood by Camille and Paul CLAUDEL and illustrated by the texts of Paul CLAUDEL.

You know that this castle belonged to the prestigious family of Montmorency and that its bridge gallery would have been used as model with the construction of that of the castle of Chenonceau?

On a hillock which dominates of 20 meters the surrounding countryside, raising the ruins of the medieval fortress built in XIII century by Robert II, count de Dreux and small son of King Louis Le Gros. 3 centuries later, Anne de Montmorency, constable of François 1st, made build the superb bridge gallery rebirth which spans today still the ditch. This gallery, single in the North of France, is allotted to the prestigious architect Jean Bullant.

Today the vestiges, the castle of Fère-en-Tardenois us suggests his history. If you wish to discover his past er its secrecies, Tourist office proposes guided visits to you (for the groups of 10 people minimum).

• The park of the Heathers of Fère-in-Tardenois

In the middle of a wooded park of 90 hectares, 2 artificial lakes allow you to devote to practic of the pçeche (carp, pike, pike perch). Thus come to walk around the ponds or to fish there

• Hottée of the devil

Fabulous site, sand, sandstone with the monstrous forms, such are the universe which inspired Camille and Paul Claudel. And if this place you inspire.

• Oxygenate

To see nature differently , nothing like it a forest course in the electric car. In the middle of flowered clearings, the ponds and of meadows, M and Mrs. Omont Delattre make you discover the animal life and vegetable in forest. Opening of at the end of April at semi October, every day except Monday.