The Brotherhood invites you to discover the treasures of an often overlooked part of the Nord Pas de Calais, Avesnois. This territory is so vast and rich in the oddities GRAND TOUR AVESNOIS will decompose in 4 volumes:
- VOLUME 1: BRM Val de Sambre et Marbriers (91km)
- VOLUME 2: GRP Fagne and Val Joly (90km)
- VOLUME 3: BRM Ponds Forge and (82km)
- VOLUME 4: BRM Bocages and Maroilles (101km) to close deliciously adventure ...
first shipment Saturday, June 19, 2010:
90km in 12:00 with John Mich ', Seb, Jer, Oliv & Friar Tuck (dropping to 40th km )
departure 14:00 / arrival 2:00 - Place de l'Hotel de Ville (Place du General de Gaulle) to BAVAY
's photos Oliv
Photos of Friar Tuck
Presentation
During this journey through this former industrial area once so prosperous you will escape by many deed to sail peacefully along the Sambre, where Stevenson was practicing canoeing.
By taking the many Roman roads you will discover Bavay, ancient city, capital of Nervii where -57 in BC, combined with Atrebates Viromandus and they made an instant swing the fortunes of Caesar at the Battle of Sabis. The thousand treasures of this mysterious city gathered in a museum archaeological excavations and discoveries continue ...
Crossing Village Malpaquet you tread down the site of the battle over the killer of the Old Regime in the War of English Succession.
But you also ventilate trudge through the forest Mormal which is nothing other than the largest forest of Nord Pas de Calais!
Several feudal remnants punctuate the adventure of the castle lords Eclaibes (XIIth), Knights of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai guerroyèrent Holy Land.
Always on the edge of the town you pass through Belgium Joint Gognies Floor, half-French half-Belgian. In the church maintained a driveway shared cost neutral to the enclosed porch Belgium!
Plan your front ...
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