Oise: Chantilly, Beauvais Cathedral, and Parisian Commuters
Oise lies just north of Paris and has long served as a retreat for the Parisian elite. The Chateau de Chantilly, home to the Musee Conde with its collection of Old Master paintings second only to the Louvre, is the department's greatest cultural asset. Beauvais, the prefecture, has a cathedral whose choir vault at 48 metres is the tallest in Christendom, though the nave was never completed.
Compiegne has a royal palace used by Napoleon III and the nearby Forest of Compiegne where the 1918 Armistice was signed. Senlis, with its medieval streets and Gallo-Roman arena, is another draw. The department's population is about 831,000. The southern portions function as commuter territory for Paris, while the northern half remains agricultural. Creil and the Oise valley industrial corridor have faced economic challenges since the decline of heavy industry.
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Oise lies just north of Paris and has long served as a retreat for the Parisian elite. The Chateau de Chantilly, home to the Musee Conde with its collection of Old Master paintings second only to the Louvre, is the department's greatest cultural asset. Beauvais, the prefecture, has a cathedral whose choir vault at 48 metres is the tallest in Christendom, though the nave was never completed.
Compiegne has a royal palace used by Napoleon III and the nearby Forest of Compiegne where the 1918 Armistice was signed. Senlis, with its medieval streets and Gallo-Roman arena, is another draw. The department's population is about 831,000. The southern portions function as commuter territory for Paris, while the northern half remains agricultural. Creil and the Oise valley industrial corridor have faced economic challenges since the decline of heavy industry.
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