Around Charmeval

Depart from the town of Grandchamp, latitude 47.7233440 (N 47° 43’ 24”), longitude 5.4508920 (E 5° 27’ 3”)

• Pond and bridge of Grandchamp

• The 18th century bridge is quite common this time. It is formed of three arches in basket of cut stone, extradossées in staircase. Visible on the old cadastre of 1838, this bridge
• then had a cross on the parapet downstream. It is registered on the Supplementary Inventory of Historical Monuments since May 13, 1996.

• Cross of Heuilley-le-Grand

• Cross of the cemetery of the first half of the 16th century (1526). This stone cross consists of a square base bearing on one of its faces an inscription with the date 1526; in front of the basement, there is a small altar formed of a table placed on two square columns. On the bedrock, stands a large column resting on a base and supporting a capital decorated with four scrolls and small heads of angels between scrolls. The cross rests on the capital; the arms are finished with florets; a Christ is figured on the east face. It was registered with the Historical Monuments on July 9, 1909.

• The castle of Pailly

• Still partly surrounded by moats, the former palace-fortress of the Saulx-Tavannes family orients one of its facades on a garden of classical composition which ends on a shaded walkway of lime trees carved into a marquise. Reinvented in the nineteenth century by the family of Breuil de Saint Germain, the large parterre is adorned with a circular basin on which end eight median aisles that delimit four flowerbeds and four green carpets; it is the subject of a flowering based on annuals. To the North and East, the garden is surrounded by a lime tree mall.

• Our Lady of the Woods Chapel

• Chapel located east of the village, on the western edge of the Bussières-les-Belmont national forest. It is reached by the village by a way of cross or by a forest road departing from the Departmental 136. A pilgrimage there takes place every year on the eve of the nativity of Mary.
• In 1914, the abbot Jean-Edouard Lamy, native of Pailly and parish priest of La Courneuve in Paris, acquires the hunting lodge and the forest. He brings a gilded wooden statue of the Virgin bought at a junk shop in the capital. A pilgrimage was organized spontaneously in early September 1914 and in 1915, the pavilion was transformed into a chapel. Since this day, many walkers, faithful, make the detour through the clearing to seek a change of scenery, calm, serenity, meditation... The parish which groups the villages around Chalindrey took as denomination, in 1998, Notre-Dame des Wood. All a symbol that brings together!