Posée sur une éminence dominant les champs de bataille de Champagne de la Grande Guerre, l’impressionnante et presque menaçante pyramide de béton et de grès rose rend hommage aux combattants des armée...
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...
With no more space available in the garden city, the Foyer Rémois housing organisation completed its urban plan by financing a school building, located along the boulevard, for the City of Reims. Crea...
600m² divided into 7 scenographic spaces show you 3 major times: Europe and Champagne-Ardenne before the war reminds you what the Belle Epoque period was, until the launching of the conflict.
The War...
Ce quadrilatère à l’appareillage champenois typique de la région est l’un des plus beaux châteaux de la Champagne. Plus de 50 jeux anciens, les Jeux des Chevaliers, et bien d’autres activités pour déc...
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Saint-Remi Basilica is a collection of history and art which should not be missed. The 11th century Romanesque nave was lengthened by two transepts at the end o...
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...
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 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 ...
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,...
À l’écart des grands axes, voici l’une des plus remarquables églises de Champagne. L’élégance et la clarté de son choeur ne sont pas sans rappeler Notre-Dame de Reims. Normal : son architecte est auss...
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...
110 years of automobile creations have been assembled in the museum and some models were manufactured in only a few specimens. Nearly 230 vehicles are exhibited in one of the most important car museum...
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 ...
A listed historical monument of the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries. Remarkable collection of decorative arts, works of art illustrating the History of Reims and the Royal Coronations. Original engravin...
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.
Prenez le temps de découvrir le magasin de chocolats fabriqués par une communauté de moniales cisterciennes : produits monastiques et régionaux variés sont au rendez-vous ! Ce magasin se trouve au sud...
The last public edifice built after the First World War, the Grand Théâtre in Reims did not open until November 1931. The architects François Maille and Louis Sollier retained the façade built by Alph...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 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...
St. Jacques Church is the oldest church of Reims after Remi's abbey church. Its simple façade, pierced by three portals, masks a 12th century Gothic triforium and nave, a flamboyant Gothic chancel da...
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...
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.
Returning to the Mutualism of the 19th century, shops with multiple branches made history in Reims, like Goulet-Turpin, the Établissements Économiques or the Comptoirs Français. Some announced mass di...
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...
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...
The Northern Cemetery (Cimetière du Nord), located outside the city following the hygienist reforms of the Age of Enlightenment, is the final resting place of the great families of Reims, regardless o...
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...
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.
L'Arboretum de Jonchery-sur-Vesle a été réalisé pour l'ensemble des publics, dans un soucis de connaissance de la cinquantaine d'espèces d'essences recensée.
L'objectif est de contribué à la conservat...
This particular hotel was probably built by Pierre de Bezannes, the inhabitants’ lieutenant in the 15th century. Originally established on a vast plot, it was made up of a main body and two wings that...
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...
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...
Overhanging one of the most prestigious slope of the Montagne de Reims, the lighthouse of Verzenay and its Musée de la Vigne invites you to discover the fascinating world of the vineyards of Champagne...
