Gisors

Gisors  is located in the  department of Eure in the region of Normandy.

 

From Paris Chatelet Les Halles RER A to Cergy Prefecture.

Cergy Prefecture  bus  604 or 609 to Gisors.

 

 

Castle of Gisors is a former château-motte, built between the late 11th and 11th centuries.

The castle, built on a motte castrale*, consists of a circular keep added to an existing fortress.

 

The castle was a key fortress of the Dukes of Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries.

 

 

*A motte-and-bailey castle is a European fortification with a wooden or stone keep situated on a raised area of ground called a motte, accompanied by a walled courtyard, or bailey, surrounded by a protective ditch and palisade.

The donjon

The church of  Saint-Gervais-Saint-Protais.

 

The church is build in 1110.

 

Martyrdom of Saint Crépin and Saint Crépinien

The canal Epte 

 The wash-house, 15th cenruty

Old half-timbered houses.

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