PLACES OF INTEREST ON THE ROUTE
Gisors.—Exceedingly interesting and picturesque town on the old Norman frontier; Norman castle, built by William Rufus, Henry I. and II., and Philippe Auguste; streets full of timber-framed houses; beautiful church, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, with Classic west end; Hôtel de Ville, seventeenth century, formerly a convent.
Dangu.—Interesting château, chiefly of the time of Louis XIII.
Les Thilliers-en-Vexin.—Small hamlet; Château de Bois d’Enemets, sixteenth century, attributed to Mansard.
Harquency.—Hamlet, with small Norman church.
Le Grand Andely.—Small town, with a remarkably fine church, thirteenth to fifteenth centuries, with good sixteenth-century glass; fountain of Ste. Clotilde; remarkable inn, Le Grand Cerf, built in 1515, rich carving.
Le Petit Andely.—A little town, under the shadow of Château Gaillard; old houses and very interesting thirteenth-century church.
Château Gaillard.—Imposing ruins of the great fortress, built by Richard Cœur-de-Lion in 1197; fine scenery and rare wild-flowers.
St. Nicholas-de-Pont-St. Pierre.—Village in the pretty valley of the Andelle, with a fine fifteenth century château.
Boos.—Small town; ruins of thirteenth-century manor-house, with remarkable pigeon house of sixteenth century.