Selection of the most beautiful monuments in Champagne-Ardennes

Commanderie templière
10110 Bar-sur-Seine

The Commanderie d'Avalleur, founded in the 12th century in Bar-sur-Seine (Aube), is a former Templar Commandery, now a hospital, classified as a historical monument for its Gothic and Romanesque chapel.

Palais
08130 Attigny

The Palace of Charlemagne in Attigny, a Renaissance building dating back to the 16th and 18th centuries, is a vestige built on the ruins of an ancient Carolingian palace, located in the Ardennes in the Great East.

Ferme
08290 Prez

The farm of the Maipas, a fortified house of the early 17th century in Prez (Ardennes), is a classic house built after the Renaissance, marked by its imposing roof and preserved architecture.

Ferme fortifiée
08600 Foisches

Foisches Castle, a former 17th-century fort house in Foisches (Ardennes), combines defensive architecture and farming in a unique regional style.

Eglise gothique
08090 Charleville-Mézières

The Notre-Dame-d'Espérance Basilica of Charleville-Mézières, built in 1499, is a flamboyant Gothic jewel of the Great East, famous for its modern stained glass windows and its turbulent history, classified as a historic monument in 1910.

Eglise fortifiée
08250 Saint-Juvin

The church of Saint-Juvin, a 17th-century fortified building in Saint-Juvin (Ardennes), combines military and religious architecture with its turrets and thick walls, reconstructed identically after 1918.

Chemins de Compostelle - Au bord des voies
51000 Châlons-en-Champagne

The Collège Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, a Gothic jewel of the 12th to 13th centuries in Châlons-en-Champagne (Grand Est), combines Romanesque influences and primitive Gothic elegance. Classified at UNESCO, it was a high Marian pilgrimage site and a Champagne architectural masterpiece.

Eglise à pan de bois
10330 Bailly-le-Franc

The church of the Exaltation-de-la-Sainte-Croix, a 16th century religious building with wooden strips, stands in Bailly-le-Franc in the Aube, in the heart of the Pays du Der.