Regional guide
Picardie
Choose a city as your starting point, then explore the departments and guides available in this area.
Ideas to get you started
Available guides: 3
Ideas to get you started
A selection of city guides to help you choose your base.
Amiens
Amiens combines a monumental Gothic centre with canals, market gardens and several places connected with Jules Verne. Its principal sights lie around Notre-Dame Cathedral, the pedestrian city centre a…
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Beauvais
Much of Beauvais was damaged by bombing during the Second World War, but important parts of its earlier architecture survived. The cathedral precinct contains the city’s principal medieval buildings, …
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Laon
Laon’s upper town preserves a dense record of religious, civic and military history. Medieval streets cross the hill within eight kilometres of ramparts, passing the cathedral, former ecclesiastical b…
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Places to visit in Picardie
Use this regional index to choose between Picardie’s three departmental guides. Places of interest are organised under Aisne, Oise and Somme, with a city section available through each department.
Browse by department
Select Aisne, Oise or Somme below. Each department page is the next step towards the city guide included in this directory: Laon for Aisne, Beauvais for Oise and Amiens for Somme.
- Aisne: open the departmental index and continue to Laon.
- Oise: open the departmental index and continue to Beauvais.
- Somme: open the departmental index and continue to Amiens.
Choose a local guide
If you already know which city you need, follow Laon through Aisne, Beauvais through Oise or Amiens through Somme. Otherwise, begin with a department and use its index to continue. The structure is deliberately simple: this page gives an overview of Picardie, while the linked pages narrow the directory to a department and then a city.
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