Maubeuge – Liessies
After Maubeuge, the route passes through a landscape of hedged farmland where you can discover churches, bandstands, dance halls, mills and the economic activities of yesteryear revealed by the earthenware and pottery museum at Ferrière-la-Petite and the glass museum at Sars-Poteries.
26.5 km
2h50
good
easy
Sambre
Avesnois
< Maubeuge
Liessies >
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Itinerary Tab :
Leave Maubeuge via the Pont de Paris over the railway tracks. At the roundabout, take the Rue du Chemin Vert opposite (counter-flow cycle route), which leads to a footpath that has been converted into a greenway as far as Ferrière-la-Grande. Then follow the old Maubeuge-Fourmies railway line, which has been converted into a greenway as far as Liessies, then Trélon.
Information Tab :
Markets
- Soire-le-Château, Tuesday
Trains
- from Maubeuge:
- Intercités <=> Charleroi, Namur
- TER <=> Jeumont, Aulnoye-Aymeries, Lille, Saint-Quentin, Compiègne, Paris
Mustsee Tab :
Ferrière-la-petite :
- earthenware and pottery museum
- château de Gossuin 17th century
Obrechies :
- church(1599)
Damousies :
- church, one of the oldest in the region
Wattignies-la-Victoire :
- Four memorials and dance kiosk
Dimechaux :
- dance bandstand
Dimont :
- Saint-Georges church (XV-XVIIth c.)
Sars-Pottery :
- Glass Museum
- Delmotte water mill
Lez-Fontaine :
- church (13th century), bandstand, open-air theatre
Soire-le-Château :
- church with bulbous bell tower (15th-17th century)
- Renaissance town hall
- bandstand and brick and bluestone houses
Felleries :
- picturesque village
- Woodworking Museum
Ramoussies :
- church (1674)
Liessies :
- church (12th century)
- Liessies Abbey Departmental Park
- château de la Motte (hotel)
Nearby :
- Val Joly (tourist resort), departmental park with lake (180 ha) and forest (1000 ha)
