The 17th-century monk Dom Perignon gets the credit for refining champagne’s production, but the bubbly we know and love today ...
Gare de l’Est to Champagne-Ardenne, gateway to Reims, takes a brisk 42 minutes. Voila. Suddenly we are in champagne country and tasting treats await. I am not a drinker, so fear such bubbly indulgence ...
How an army of artisans on a five-year deadline turned back time to restore a centuries-old masterpiece – by hand ...
From modern metropolises to coastal charms, here’s a no-holds-barred run-down of the good, the bad and the ugly ...
Reims has several hotels, restaurants, and a famous Gothic-era cathedral, Notre-Dame de Reims, to visit, making it both a wine production and cultural hub. We were really there for the wine.
Notre-Dame de Reims, known in English as Reims Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the French city of the same name, the archiepiscopal see of the Archdiocese of Reims. The cathedral was ...
In June French troops crushed the English at Patay, and in July Charles VII was crowned in the cathedral of Reims in the presence of the young warrior prophet who had predicted the event.
Abbey church Orbais-l'Abbaye. The St. Pierre-St. Paul Church was built at the end of the 12th and early 13th centuries by Jean of Orbais, one of the architects of the Cathedral of Reims. He saw the ...