Champagne

Understand

250px|thumbnail|The cathedral at [[Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, Northeastern France]]

The home of champagne could only be welcoming. Accept its invitation and feast your eyes and taste buds! La Champagne department is the birthplace of le champagne wine, the world's most festive wine.

Champagne-Ardenne was an administrative region of France until 2016 when it was merged with Lorraine and Alsace to form the Grand Est region.

See

Champagne and its famous vineyards Mémorial Charles de Gaulle, in Colombey-les-deux-églises In Troyes, its cathedral, its Museum of Modern Art, its House of Tools and Workers' Thought and its old houses, In Châlons-en-Champagne its cloister-museum, its cathedral, its collegiate church, its Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology and its waterways, the battlefields of Champagne, the ruins of the Abbey of Trois-Fontaines, the mill of the Battle of Valmy, Langres with its ramparts. In Épernay, its Avenue de Champagne and its cellars, the valleys of the Marne and the Meuse In Charleville-Mézières, its Place Ducale, its Rue de la République, its Rimbaud Museum, its Museum of the Ardennes and its basilica In Bogny-sur-Meuse, its Museum of Ardennes Metallurg In the village of Elan, Sedan and its fortified castle -historium, the Vendresse estate, In Monthermé, small capital of the loops of the Meuse In Mouzon, its abbey church and its Felt Museum In Juniville, its Verlaine Museum In Reims, its Palais du Tau, its old abbey-museum, its cathedral and its cellars, the Notre-Dame-de-l'Epine basilica, the Auberive Abbey, In Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, the Charles-de-Gaulle memorial

Do

Visit champagne cellars – take a trip to see the Moet and Chandon cellars in Epernay. The Montagne de Reims regional natural park   Charleville-Mézières, the World Capital of Puppetry, hosts a biennial festival. Nigloland amusement park is one of the most visited in France. It's in Dolancourt, near Bar-sur-Aube. The Pays du Der is a natural region belonging to the humid Champagne region where the route of half-timbered and stained-glass churches and the Pays de Der museum are located The Ardennes Regional Natural Park has two national nature reserves and seven Natura 2000 sites. The Champagne and Burgundy Forests National Natural Park is a forest massif shared between Haute-Marne and Côte d'Or. The Forêt d'Orient Regional Natural Park has large lakes, and attracts nature lovers, fishing enthusiasts, hikers, swimmers and water sports enthusiasts. Camp on the river Marne There are many tour operators that specialise in providing private individuals, couples and groups with wine tasting opportunities and wine vacations to the Champagne region.