The best road cycling routes around Gourchelles

To refill your water bottle there is a water point in the cemetery.

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Magnificent, well-maintained, inhabited residence.

This is a magnificent mill that is three centuries old. It stopped grinding in 1925 and has had other uses using hydraulic power. The whole is kept in good condition and is worth a visit.

Blainville-Crevon Castle is a site where five different castles were built and destroyed over the centuries. You will be able to discover the ruins of the medieval fortress, admire the magnificent staircase and the underground cellars, and learn the history of the place from the passionate volunteers who have been excavating and restoring it since 1967. The castle is open on Wednesdays and Saturdays, and you You can also enjoy the cultural events that take place there, such as the Archéo Jazz festival.

After 80kms we need somewhere to grab a bite to eat. The pain au chocolate in this boulangerie were incredible! Well worth the time to stop and enjoy.

In a magnificent (but private) park, the Château de Prouzel will enchant the visitor as well as the green setting in the middle of which it is built. I recommend the path that goes around the enclosure. Next to the castle, there is a small church on the side of which is an old well and a magnificent dovecote in the farmyard of the adjoining property. In the extension of the alley of the castle, you can admire magnificent horses grazing quietly in an XXL park.

#15 - Cathedral and Tourist Office Here the cathedral attracts everyone's attention! Like all visitors, Jules Verne admired the grandeur of this “magnificent example of 13th-century Gothic art,” as he wrote in An Ideal City. He also refers to it in The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: “The cathedral [...], a 13th century building that mixes Romanesque and Gothic styles. However, this cathedral has beautiful parts that deserve the attention of connoisseurs: its facade framed by two towers, its spire located in the transept, three hundred and fifteen feet high, its central portal with very elaborate arches, its large rose window through which the rays of the setting sun and from which the large nave is largely illuminated, and finally its rounded apse between the numerous buttresses. Notre-Dame Square has changed over the centuries and through numerous events. It does not resemble what Jules Verne knew in the 19th century, with its old houses and a small square in front of the building. After the Second World War, houses reminiscent of the shapes and decorations of the 13th-century houses were built opposite the cathedral, and the square was enlarged. Nowadays the tourist office is also located here. Source: https://www.amiens.fr/Grands-projets/Aronnax/Etapes/etape-15/Cathedrale-et-Office-de-Tourisme-allemand