La Fère – Marest-Dampcourt
This stage and the next cross the Moyenne vallée de l’Oise, made up of large expanses of hay meadows that often flood, and are home to more than 200 species of bird, including one protected species, the corncrake.
Tergnier is a former railway workers’ housing estate designed by Raoul Dautry and destroyed during the Second World War. Chauny, ravaged during the First World War, was rebuilt in an Art-Deco style.
At Tergnier, connection with the Veloroute Vallée de Somme – V30.
19 km
1h45
good
easy
Vermandois
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Itinerary Eurovelo3, recommended by CTE
Itinerary Tab :
At Tergnier, when you make a U-turn before the lock, take the pavement (respecting pedestrians) and join the driveway on the left, just after the bridge.
Information Tab :
From Ribemont
bus : Saint-Quentin
From La Fère
- TER Amiens, Noyon, Lille, Laon, Reims
Mustsee Tab :
Tergnier :
- cité cheminote
- museum of the Resistance and Deportation of Picardy
- place Carnegie : radio-concrete square built after the First World War.
- Frette nautical base, a vast 32-hectare lake –
Chauny :
- market hall, station, town hall
Manicamp gave its name to a “maroilles” style cheese.
Proximity :
- Saint-Gobain
- glass and mirror factory created in 1665 by Colbert, now closed, of which only the portal remains visible
- Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique
- ruins of a 13th-century fortified castle on a spur overlooking the town.
