La Ferté-sous-Jouarre: history and sights
Served by: Transilien P.
Did you know?
La Ferté-sous-Jouarre owed its fortune to millstone grit, quarried on the Marne hillsides, whose former quarries are preserved in the Bois de la Barre and Bois de la Bergette.
Anecdote
Notre-Dame de Jouarre abbey, a mixed monastery born of the Columbanian movement, keeps a Merovingian crypt; Benedictine nuns still live there.
Around La Ferté-sous-Jouarre
- Abbaye Notre-Dame de Jouarre, 2400 m away — An abbey with a church, a Merovingian crypt and a Romanesque part, still inhabited by Benedictine nuns.
- Sites de la meulière (bois de la Barre et de la Bergette), 2000 m away — Former quarry sites of the millstone grit that made the town's fortune.
- Bords de Marne, 500 m away — A riverside circuit with views over the Marne valley.