Picquigny
Topic | Sites and museums |
Departure | PICQUIGNY (80) |
Details | Picquigny is a french town, located in the department of the Somme and the Picardie area. |
Discover the feudal Castle
Built in the early eleventh century, the building filled with circular towers at the corners has been rebuilt in the fourteenth century and completed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Despite serious damage during the First World War, the castle has retained its glory and is regularly used for medieval feasts.
The site continues to be highlighted regularly in the partnership established between the tourist and the Rempart Association.
Crédit photo : Marc ROUSSEL (markus3), license CC-BY-SA-3.0
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The collegial Saint Martin
The collegial Saint Martin was with the origin the vault of the strong castle, is in the vicinity immediate of the vestiges of the home, at the interior of the ramparts. You reach it is by the staircase Saint-Jean (east coast) is by crossing the strengthened door (west coast). The frame of its nave was completely destroyed at the time of a fire at the beginning of the XX century. The roof made the object of a rehabilitation in 2008, which is concluded by the installation of a cock-wind vane, on August 2, which was preceded a blessing and a small ceremony at the time which part of the assembled population around was photographed. Its ground still reveals the entry of an important underground.
Crédit photo : Marc ROUSSEL (markus3), license CC-BY-SA-3.0
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Prehistoric park of Samara
Medieval Castle and church of Picquigny, prehistoric park of Samara, Tenfol farm or Caroline's garden : thoses sites are opened to public visits.
For more information, tourism board of Picquigny Ouest Amiens
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The gardens of Caroline
Within the framework of her pretty Picardy farm, Caroline the owner of this site where it is good to walk, will make you penetrate in her universe made up of long-lived and the shrubs in all kinds.
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