Avesnes-sur-Helpe Travel Guide

 wandeljp Says:  Flaumont-Waudrechies millOn our course of after midday we could see four of the many old mills. It are not useful today any more but are the witnesses of a popular past. Here also the restorations were in hand to give him a new life. 

 wandeljp Says:  RestorationsEnd XIX ème century had brought a generalized painting of the frontages. Lately an important programme of restoration of a hundred frontages carried out with European funds and the contest of the Town of Avesnes was undertaken. If one takes account of the former... 

 wandeljp Says:  Local tradition. Traditionaly, the craftsmen can of the owner of the factory use the remainders of the heat of the furnace and the molten glass to make perssonels objects; Thus, it is of habit to place balls of coloured glass at the top of the roofs. (See photographs) In... 

 wandeljp Says:  Local TraditionWe walked in the nature from 10 am to 12 o clock. In Beugnies we found the MaryDy cafe where we stopped for drinking and eating our lunch.Beugnies is a very little village near Sars Potterie. Sars Potterie was always known for the glass blowers.See tip "local... 

 wandeljp Says:  Local dévotionIt is a very old tradition. The inhabitants (farm and people of the ground for the majority) called upon the saints for all kinds of reasons: plague, the lightning, storms , diseases as well for people for the animeaux ones. What there is the very particular... 

 wandeljp Says:  Special building wayPlease have a look on the local traditions tips ! 

 wandeljp Says:  City view (2)The Bastions, except the Bastion of the Queen, are widened and of the outer works are established towards 1630 pennies the direction of the Knight of City. From this time goes back the door to Mons (1628) and the Rider of the Bastion of France. Vauban integrates... 

 wandeljp Says:  JUSTICEThe Law courts of 1828 also have an important peristyle in the form of Greek temple of the enough successful Doric order. 

 wandeljp Says:  Collegiate Saint-Nicolas ChurchThe collegial Saint Nicolas's Day In the current of XIIème century is arranged in edge of the initial core of the town of Avesnes a place intended to receive the market, on which gives the Market and later the belfry. It is the current place of... 

 wandeljp Says:  City viewThe first fortifications go up in XIème century. They followed a perimeter including part of the high city in the quadrilateral delimited by the Street Léo Lagrange, the cliff and the public garden of the Madeleine. In XIIIème century, a broader enclosure... 

 wandeljp Says:  Sint LouisI took this pic in a side street of the main marked. But I did know more about it for now. Perhaps later? I update them. Promise! 

 wandeljp Says:  CityhalThe Town hall of 1757 rather severe of aspect announces the style Louis XVI. There is a curious passage under the building who's take you to an other street. 

 wandeljp Says:  AVESNESPicturesque city fixed on the side of a rock cliff, Avesnes-on-Helpe is founded by Wédric the Bearded one in XIème century. Its lords are famous since the House of Avesnes gives rise to Philippa de Hainaut, future Queen of England, which obtains the grace of the... 

 wandeljp Says:  The hunting assistant The day of our visit was the day of opening of hunting. What one little to see on the photograph it is a ferret. The animal to domesticate is employed to make leave rabbits their burrow. Curious tradition . 

 wandeljp Says:  You have also on the way boards with a map of al the circuits in the area. We saw twoo of this boards on the way.