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Guise
Information
Country	France
Area	16,13 km²
Population	4 731 hab. (1er january 2018)
Density	293,3 inhab./km²
Postal code	02120
Spindle	UTC 01:00, UTC 02:00
Location
49 ° 54 ′ 1 ″ N 3 ° 37 ′ 39 ″ E
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Guise is a city of Picardy in the department ofAisne in France.

Understand

This city was at the forefront of a "utopian socialist" experiment launched by Jean-Baptiste André Godin: Le Familistère. This experience, ultimately not so utopian, will last from 1859 to 1968.

To go

By car

From Saint-Quentin

25 km journey, by the D1029.

From Amiens

104 km of journey, by A29 then A26 then D1 then finally the D1029.

From Paris

186 km journey, by A1 then A29 then A26 then D1 then D1029.

From Lille

110 km of journey, by A23 then D649 then D934 then D946.

Circulate

To see

The Familistère

The Familistère, a "family meeting place", is made up of many buildings. Only part of the buildings can be visited and belong to a museum. Some buildings are still living quarters today.

Godin, a former worker who succeeded in becoming an industrialist, decided to try to improve the living conditions of his employees, thus setting up a place, the Familistère and a cooperative offering an exceptional standard of living to these employee-associates. for the era.

Tickets are purchased at the site reception in the commissary building.

• 49.9041673.6252781 Familistère de Guise (welcome) Familistère square,   33 3 23 61 35 36 March-October: Mon.- Sun. : 10 h - 18 h, November-February: Mon.- sat. : 10 h - 18 h. Full price: 9 € (~ 9.95 Fr. - course on 04/27/2021) (~ C $ 13.48 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ $ 10.87 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ 5,900.45 F CFA - price on 04/27/2021), reduced price 6 € (~ 6.63 Fr. - price of 04/27/2021) (~ C $ 8.98 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ $ 7.24 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ 3 933.64 F CFA - price of 04/27/2021). – Guided tours at fixed times. (last update Feb. 2021)

The ticket allows you to visit some of the major places of the site:

• 49.904663.625212 The central pavilion  (last update Feb. 2021)
• 49.903753.625863 Theater and schools  (last update Feb. 2021)
• 49.904813.627234 Laundry-pool  (last update Feb. 2021)

Other historical monuments

• 49.8963.6235 Guise castle ,   33 3 23 61 11 76, e-mail : [email protected]  7 € (~ 7.74 Fr. - price of 04/27/2021) (~ C $ 10.48 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ $ 8.45 - class on 04/27/2021) (~ 4,589.24 F CFA - price on 04/27/2021). – an old fortified castle, attested from the X^e century, transformed in the XVI^e century and reworked by Vauban. (last update Feb. 2021)
• 49.89863.623936 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul Citadel Street (last update Feb. 2021)

Places of remembrance of the Great War

• 49.8761373.6287377 National Necropolis of La Désolation  – French military cemetery where the bodies of French or allied combatants, fallen during the two world wars, rest: Individual graves: 3,095 dead, Ossuaries: 2,402 dead. Conflict of 14-18: 2,643 French, 2,332 Germans, 48 British, 31 Belgians, 13 Russians, 1 Romanian. Conflict of 39-45: 428 French, 1 Soviet (last update Feb. 2021)

Do

To buy

Eat

• 49.904313.626441 The commissary's refreshment bar 178 Central Familistere,   33 3 23 61 35 36 on the opening days of the site museum: 10 h - 17 h. – Refreshment area in the familistère museum. (last update Feb. 2021)

Have a drink / Go out

Housing

Communicate

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