Gisors

Historic capital of Vexin Normand, the small town of Gisors, installed on the banks of the Epte, on Route Normandie-Vexin History, invites you to discover its heritage listed, with one hand, the church Saint-Gervais- et-Saint-Protais of the twelfth to sixteenth centuries, remarkable for its Renaissance facade, his flamboyant Gothic High Gothic nave and choir, and secondly, the castle of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, superb example of medieval military architecture .

Built in 1097 at the request of the English king William Rufus, son of William the Conqueror, and emphasized by Henry II in the twelfth century, the fortress of Gisors, which was a tumultuous past during the Hundred Years War, is flanked an imposing fortified walls, the middle of which stands a feudal mound topped with an octagonal tower. A beautiful garden at the foot of the castle mound and a superb panorama of the city and the Epte Valley from the top of the keep, in addition to the discovery of places.

See also in Gisors, Vienna street, punctuated by typical old timbered houses, but also the picturesque wash house along the River Epte, with a wood frame.