Meuse

In the heart of europe, next to lorraine and champagne, 2h from paris and strasbourg, 3h30 of brussels, the meuse reserves emotions!

Bar-le -duc high town  Visit of this safeguarded sector,  the Renaissance district,  the Transi de Ligier Richier,  the pressoir,  the clock tower,  the castle  and the covered way: a huge museum size.

The fortified churches  Meuse region has more than one hundred churches including 69 still equipped with defensive elements.  The discovery of these churches is an invitation to go through the country roads to have a look on a unique landscape where art, history and nature are live together.  This guided tour proposes you to discover the churches of Chauvency Saint-Hubert, Dugny sur Meuse, Foucaucourt sur Thabas, Gironville sous les Côtes, Ribeaucourt, Saint-Pierrevilliers, Sepvigny, Tronville en Barrois, Troussey, Woël, Vertuzey.

Game manufacture  Visit of the factory of Petitcollin headstocks and bathers in the town of Etain. Petiticollin is today the last factory of headstock 100% Frenchwoman.  Visit of the Verdun famous Dragée manufacture in the Braquier House.

"pêche à la mouche"  Located 15km in the south from Verdun, down the top of Meuse, the field of Sommedieuse offers you a 12 ha water and 3,5 km riverine course.  A succession of small lakes crossed by a river, supplied with many sources make water perfectly crystalline and allow all the fishing techniques "à la mouche" (nymph at sight, drowned dries, streamer). "Pêche à la mouche" exclusively.

forest wind  Located in the forest of Lahaymeix, a path of forty kilometers is marked out by the works carried out from wood, stone or iron, as original as surprising, by artists coming from the whole world (Germany, the United States, Japan...)

Astronomy initiation  The Observatory of the Meuse coast is a permanent center of practicing and initiation to astronomy, equipped of one of the largest European telescopes opened to the public. Evenings of observation, conference and diaporama can be proposed.

Speleology  The Lorraine house of speleology is located in the valley of Saulx, near the remarkable karstic resau, most significant of Lorraine