Places to Explore In Champagne Country

Discover the best places to explore in Champagne Country with curated recommendations from our travel experts.

Amiens

Although Amiens showcases some pretty brazen postwar reconstruction, epitomized by Auguste Perret's 340-foot Tour Perret (a soaring concrete stump by the train station), the city...

  • 2 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 5 Things To Do

Beauvais

Beauvais and its neighbor Amiens have been rivals since the 13th century, when they locked horns over who could build the bigger cathedral. Beauvais lost—gloriously...

  • 1 Restaurants
  • 2 Hotels
  • 2 Things To Do

Châlons-en-Champagne

The administrative capital of the Marne and the Champagne region is famous for its Blanc de Blancs vineyards. The town center, crisscrossed with canals and...

  • 1 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 2 Things To Do

Château-Thierry

Château-Thierry is best known as the birthplace of the French fabulist Jean de La Fontaine (1621–95). Built along the Marne River beneath the ruins of...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 0 Hotels
  • 1 Things To Do

Épernay

Although Reims loudly proclaims itself to be the last word in Champagne production, Épernay—on the south bank of the Marne—is really the center of the...

  • 1 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 4 Things To Do

Laon

Thanks to its awe-inducing hilltop site and the forest of towers sprouting from its ancient cathedral, lofty Laon basks in the title of the "Crowned...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 3 Hotels
  • 2 Things To Do

L'Épine

Legend has it that in the Middle Ages some shepherds herding their flock down from pasture found a statue of the Virgin in a burning...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 1 Things To Do

Lille

Born from the ancient marshes that gave its name (from the Latin "insula" for island), Lille is the 10th largest city in France and sports...

  • 3 Restaurants
  • 2 Hotels
  • 5 Things To Do

Reims

Behind a facade of austerity, Champagne’s largest city remains one of France's richest tourist sites, thanks especially to the fact that it sparkles with some...

  • 5 Restaurants
  • 4 Hotels
  • 11 Things To Do

Soissons

Although this was a major city in medieval times, the ravages of the French Revolution and World War I left little of it intact. Nowadays...

  • 0 Restaurants
  • 1 Hotels
  • 3 Things To Do

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Sights 33

Shopping 2

Performing Arts 1

Restaurants 13

Hotels 16
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