The best walks and hikes around Béthisy-Saint-Martin

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This architectural ensemble included thermal baths, a performance building and a temple. To have !

The Gallo-Roman site of Champlieu is located on a plateau near the Compiègne forest. The site offers the ruins of a temple, a theater and a bathing establishment dating from the first centuries of the Roman Empire. You can explore the remains of these ancient buildings and imagine how they looked in their original splendor. You can also admire the medieval church of Champlieu, located nearby and built in the 11th and 12th centuries. The site is open all year round and has information panels and a digital tool to help you better understand its history. By browsing this site, you will immerse yourself in the past and the present and you will have a good sports session.

The Champlieu Chapel, also known as Notre-Dame-de-la-Nativite, is a Romanesque church that was built in the 11th and 12th centuries on the site of an ancient Gallo-Roman villa. The church is now in ruins, but you can still admire its elegant architecture and carved capitals. The church is surrounded by a peaceful forest and a cemetery, where there are ancient tombs and crosses. The Champlieu Chapel is a hidden treasure that offers insight into the medieval history of Picardy.

The Gallo-Roman site of Champlieu is located on the old road of the Chaussée Brunehaut. There you can admire the ruins of a temple, a theater and thermal baths dating from the first centuries AD. You will also be able to see the remains of a medieval church which was built in the same place in the 11th and 12th centuries. The site is open all year round and has informative panels and a digital tool to help you better understand its history. You can also book a guided tour with the Valois Tourist Office. Champlieu is a privileged place to immerse yourself in the past and enjoy the beauty of nature.

The Gallo-Roman site of Champlieu is located on the Roman road or Chaussée Brunehaut. The site is in the town of Orrouy, about twenty kilometers from the towns of Senlis and Compiègne. It is a small ancient town which developed from the 1st century BC to the 4th century AD, the ruins of the monumental center of which can still be visited today: its temple measuring 22 m side, its theater with a capacity of more than 3000 places and its thermal baths. The site is open for free all year round. (source: oisetourisme.com)

An ancient theater lost in the middle of nowhere at the entrance to the forest of Compiègne.

Here we find the ancient site of Champlieu. It was discovered by Napoleon III in the 19th century during archaeological excavations. Otherwise it was known since the 16th century by writings as a simple Roman camp. But research revealed that it was in fact a small town.