Discover the ardennes department

Discover towns and cities to visit in the ardennes department.

Discover the town of elan  Located at the doors of Charleville-Mézières and Sedan, the territory of the Country of the Sources to the Valley of Bar will charm you by its many assets which give to the landscape its rich and diversified character: forest and water for you ressourcer, inheritance built and religious to incite with the meditation… The country of the Sources, it is also a territory where it makes good food and to have fun, with animations and demonstrations which follow one another throughout the year: the carnival of Flize, days of the inheritance, of the exposures, the market of Christmas and his alive crib… The gastronomy is with also go, with the of the Ardennes specialities (tart with sugar, white roll), and local (honey, cider, chocolate) which will make your happiness. A rich stay of discovered for all the family… It is into 1148 that Withier, count de Rethel, fact call to the abbot of the Cistercian abbey of Loroy so that an abbey is founded on its grounds. Withier proposes immense wide ground which extends from Donchery with Omont. Twelve monks are then sent under the control of Roger, who will give the name of Esland to the new abbey. Roger chooses a withdrawn small valley, in the middle of a forest of beeches, where several abundant sources run… At that time, the cistercians had already a great control of water. He dug channels, assembled dams and, playing with the angle of rest of the ground, created falls which made turn the mills to grains and actuate the hammers of forging mill… Today, even if the field were dispersed after the revolution, then destroyed partially at the beginning of the XIXème century, it still gives a precise idea of what was the abbey with such an amount of its prosperity.

Discover monthermé - pearl of the ardennes  Monthermé is located in the Ardennes, in the North-East of France, the confluence of the Meuse and Semoy. Our city is installed in most perfect of the many meanders of the Meuse, surrounded by green hills. An ideal landscape for in love ones with nature which will be able to practise multiple activities there: pedestrian excursions, VTT, canoe-kayak, climbing, parapente, cruisings, ski touring etc… Monthermé also has a very rich historical past. We have 3 churches which you will be able to visit in season. You will also discover our broad range from point of view whose most famous “Long-Rock” dominates the Loop of the Meuse and our marvellous legends. On the spot lodgings and restaurants of quality (rooms of hosts, hotels, lodgings, camp-sites, restaurants, inns, etc.) Then do not hesitate, come to discover the city and its surroundings, you will be magic.

Visit the town of charleville-mezieres  The Ardennes chief town, of 53.000 inhabitants, is integrated in a community of communes which enters some 76.000 of them and one department which counts 290.000 of them. Place of exchanges privileged, Charleville-Mézières has many means of access, making of it a crossroads of communications open on Northern Europe. Charleville-Mézières offers very varied walks. In love with the Middle Age or nature, the industrial masonries or the Renaissance, you fit well!

Discover bogny-sur-meuse  Bogny-on-Meuse was born in 1967 from fusion from 3 communes: Braux, Castle-Regnault and Levrézy. It is the 7th city of the department of the most important Ardennes and of the canton of Monthermé with 5838 inhabitants. The city extends on 2.316 ha from communal forests and 400 ha from national forests between Nouzonville and Monthermé.

Discover the town of argonne ardennaise  KINGDOM OF the TREE country of fôrets, CHARMS WANDERING PATHS paradise for walkers, FATHERLAND OF WOOD Varennes HISTORIES, Valmy, conflicts 1914, GREEDY GENIUS OF the SOIL wild boar, ANCESTRAL honey, cider, KNOW-HOW Basket making, CURVED TILES.