Oise is a part of northern France. It was named after the river Oise.
Oise is a part of northern France. It was named after the river Oise. The inhabitants of the department are called Oisiens or Isariens, with the Latin name for the river, Isara. The Oise department is situated in the Picardy region of northern France just a short distance north of Paris, which makes the department a popular destination with Parisians escaping the city for the weekend exploring the forests and countryside trails.
1. Astérix Park
Parc Astérix is a theme amusement park in France, based on the comic book series Asterix by Albert Uderzo and René Goscinny. With more than two million visitors yearly, Parc Astérix is the country’s second-biggest theme park after Disneyland Paris and its 14 million annual visitors. It is especially well known in France for its large variety of roller coasters; it has begun incorporating rides and themes from historic cultures such as the Gauls, the Romans, Ancient Greece, and recently Ancient Egypt, but always in the visual style of the stories.
2. Château de Chantilly
The Château de Chantilly is a historic French château located in the town of Chantilly, Oise, about 50 kilometers north of Paris. The site comprises two attached buildings: the Petit Château built around 1560 for Anne de Montmorency and the Grand Château, which was destroyed during the French Revolution and rebuilt in the 1870s. It is owned by the Institut de France, to which it was bequeathed in the will of Henri d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale. A historic monument since 1988, it is open to the public. The château’s art gallery, the Musée Condé, houses one of the finest collections of paintings in France. It specializes in French paintings and book illuminations of the 15th and 16th centuries.
3. Château de Pierrefonds
The Château de Pierrefonds is a castle situated in the commune of Pierrefonds in the Oise département of France. It is on the southeast edge of the Forest of Compiègne, northeast of Paris, between Villers-Cotterêts and Compiègne. The Château de Pierrefonds includes most of the characteristics of defensive military architecture from the Middle Ages, though it underwent a major restoration in the 19th century.
4. La Cathédrale Saint-Pierre
The Cathedral of Saint Peter of Beauvais is a Roman Catholic church in the northern town of Beauvais, France. It is the seat of the Bishop of Beauvais, Noyon, and Senlis. Construction was begun in the 13th-century. The cathedral is of the Gothic style. It consists only of a transept and choir, with apse and seven polygonal apsidal chapels, which are reached by an ambulatory. A small Romanesque church dating back to the 10th-century, known as the Basse Œuvre, still occupies the site destined for the nave of the Beauvais Cathedral.
5. Palais de Compiègne
The Château de Compiègne is a French chateau, a royal residence built for Louis XV and restored by Napoleon. Compiègne was one of three seats of the royal government, the others being Versailles and Fontainebleau. It is located in Compiègne in the Oise department and is open to the public.