L'ancienne résidence des Jésuites (XVIIème siècle) renferme notamment une sublime bibliothèque, chef-d’œuvre de l’art baroque français orné de guirlandes, de volutes et d’angelots.
Dans le réfectoire...
Like the other FRACs in each of the French regions, the Regional Funds is mandated to create and promote a collection of contemporary works of art, to conceive and produce exhibitions of contemporary ...
Situé au sein de l’Office de tourisme de Vitry-le-François, porte d’entrée marnaise de la région du Der, l'Espace Scénographie Vitry, Champagne et Der est un petit parcours mis en scène pour vous donn...
Behind the plot occupied by the Mumm house remain traces of the former premises of Champagne Chauvet, a winegrower established in Rilly-la-Montagne since the 16th century.
Chapelle commémorative du village détruit de Nauroy
BEINE-NAUROY
Historical sites and monuments
Cette chapelle, d'inspiration Art déco, en pierre blanche fait office de Monument au Morts. Elle est située devant les restes du cimetière et l'église du village de Nauroy, détruit durant la Première...
Verzy Forest boasts the largest concentration of "Fau" beech trees anywhere in the world. The origin of this rare tree, with its especially twisted, knotted branches, remains a mystery to botanists.Th...
The Reims motto “God will guard” was translated from a vow by Louis the Debonaire during his coronation in 816, when he announced the demolition of the fortifications in order to repurpose stones, at ...
Rousselet pear from Reims, early cherry from Prin ... more than twenty ancient fruit species grown in Montagne de Reims, in the Marne Valley and Tardenois can be seen in the conservatory orchard.
Suite à la destruction de l'ancien temple qui datait de 1867 durant la Première Guerre mondiale, ce temple a été reconstruit entre 1921 et 1923 par l'architecte Charles Letrosne.
On peut y admirer de...
Sur la route entre Jonchery-sur-Vesle et Pévy, au lieu dit : « la Croix du Conte » à l’embranchement de la ferme de Naurois se trouve une stèle commémorant l’emplacement de cet ancien hôpital construi...
The Carnegie Library, built as a result of donations from the American steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, was inaugurated in 1928 by the President of the Republic, Gaston Doumergue.
Its semi-cylindrical ...
Between 22 and 29 August 1909, in this sector, lying just to the north of Reims, the first ever global aviation meeting took place, drawing in a million visitors. Up until 1913, it was followed by a h...
Les étangs ont été creusés au XIIe siècle par les moines de l’abbaye d’Igny pour la pisciculture. Grâce aux étangs, ils approvisionnaient tout archevêché en poissons.
Vendus lors de la Révolution, ils...
The Cryptoporticus reminds that the Roman were here. The building is parlty buried and when it was built, at the beginning of the 3rd century, the basement dealt with bean storage and the surface was ...
The Saint-Nicaise church is a unique structure thanks to its Greek cross layout and its both Roman and picturesque styles. It was built in 1923-1924 by Jacques Marcel Auburtin, at the behest of the in...
As the flagship of a blend of Art nouveau and Art déco, Villa Demoiselle was built from 1904 to 1908 according to plans by the architect Louis Sorel. In 2004, Paul-François Vranken, president of Vrank...
This museum is located in the 17th and 18th century buildings of the former St. Remi Royal Abbey, where the holy ampula, used to anoint the kings of France, was kept.
Our Lady of Peace Chapel was entirely imagined and decorated in the refined Japanese tradition by Léonard Foujita, a Japanese painter of the School of Paris, in 1966, after his conversion to catholici...
Oeuilly: a village out of time. Follow the guide for 1.5 hours to 3 authentic places from the early 20th century. Discover a typical Champagne home, entirely furnished with objects from the daily life...
The Town Hall dates from the first part of the 17th century, but was ended in the 19th century.
It displays an in-relief equestrian sculpture of Louis the 13th in its front.
The symmetrical composit...
Designed in 1926-1927, this building is the work of François Le Coeur, an architect for the Ministry of Postal Services and an associate of Henri Royer. A circular, 17.5-metre-wide room was open to th...
This house was built by Nicolas Noël, Lord ofMuire (area to the west of Reims), after a request made to the municipal magistrates in 1565. It is one of the rare examples of Renaissance architecture in...
Reims has around 100,000 files on damage caused by war. In order to facilitate processes, owners assembled in cooperatives. Although they were encouraged by town planners, few ,projects involved reorg...
Située devant un plan d'eau, l'église Notre-Dame de Gueux date du 19ème siècle. Elle a du être restaurée suite aux bombardements et a été inaugurée en 1934.
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Basilica of Notre-Dame de l'Epine is a major work of the Flamboyant Gothic style, with numerous gargoyles of great originality.
Its facade has three portals...
The Reims-Gueux circuit is situated on the western edge of Reims, between the communes of Thillois and Gueux. It is 7.8 km in length and was made up of secondary roads and a section of the N 31.
The ...
The Champagne Wine and Regional Archaeology Museum, located on the Avenue de Champagne, is housed in the Château Perrier, a 19th century building that has been classified as a Historic Monument since ...
Classée au titre des monuments historiques depuis 1920, l'église Saint-Julien a été construite à partir du 11ème siècle. Son clocher est en bâtière : son toit est simple, avec deux versants opposés....
Hôtel Mignot (Piper-Heidsieck et Charles Heidsieck)
REIMS
Historical sites and monuments
This private mansion, which belongs to the Piper-Heidsieck and Charles Heidsieck champagne houses (founded in 1785 and 1851, respectively), was built in 1911 by the grocery merchant Édouard Mignot (18...
Assembled in 1794, the museum collections grew throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. To highlight the bequests of Henry Vasnier (1907), the City set up the museum in the buildings of the former Abbe...
Sainte-Clotilde Basilica is a Neo-Byzantine church built in 1898 in memory of King of the Franks Clovis' wife. It houses 2 000 relics of the important saints of France, that are gathered in 120 shrine...
The reconstruction of this beautiful banking institution, built on the colossal scale characteristic of the 19th century, is representative of the reconstruction methods that combine preserving the fa...
This villa, commissioned from architect Pol Gosset by notary André Douce in 1929, is different in its Art Deco modernity to the other manor houses in the style of Louis XV or Louis XVI associated with...
The monumental Mars Gate dates from the first part of the 3rd century and gave access to the Gallo-Roman town of Durocortorum. It is made of three arches on which original sculptures are still visible...
The Maestris school and, since 2015, Esupcom’Reims (University of Communications) occupy these buildings, which still carry the name “G.H. Mumm & Cie”. This was the champagne house that made this rich...
Built in 1757 in honour of king Louis XV, the architecture of Place Royale is typical of the 18th century: arcades and roofs with balusters with horizontal lines. The pediment of the Hôtel des Fermes,...
Built in 1927 by the architect Émile Maigrot and the engineer Eugène Freyssinet, the Boulingrin Covered Market was created following an architecture competition launched in 1922 for the construction o...
On Monday, 7 May 1945 at 2.41 am in the War Room of General Eisenhower’s supreme headquarters (S.H.A.E.F.), which occupied part of what was Reims’ technical college, the Allied Forces put an end to th...
The Necropolis of Sillery-Bellevue was built in 1923 to receive the bodies of soldiers from several French municipal cemeteries in the surrounding area and from temporary cemeteries settled throughout...
This building, which dates back to 1878, was constructed on the “brand-new boulevard Gerbert” by industrialist Jean-Marie Philippot-Mélin. It was subsequently acquired by Léon d’Anglemont de Tassigny,...
En pleine Brie champenoise, un chef-d’oeuvre de l’art flamand en bois sculpté et peint. L’expression intense des quelque 150 personnages illustre la vie et la Passion du Christ.
