Welcome in the Marne, France's most floral Depatment !

Whether it's nature, culture, heritage, great food or Champagne that you like, in the Marne, you will find an inexhaustive supply of ideas for charging your batteries and feeling good !

Discover the authentic Champagne region after a generous breakfast in Hotel Bristol :

• Basilica Notre Dame at l'Epine – 9 kilometres, a UNESCO World Heritage site

• Cote des Blancs (vine Chardonnay) – 28 kilometres through typical small villages :
- Vertus and its built on pile's church from the 11th century.
- Oger : Gold Medal at European Towns and Villages Flowering Competition in 2005.
- Cramant and its rehoboam bottle of Champagne (8,6 meters high).
- Pierry, with the biggest Champagne Glas in the World ans the chocolaterie Thibaut.
- Epernay, the Capital of Champagne, along the famous Avenue de Champagne where the most prestigious Champagne's Houses and more than 100 kilometres of cellars are to be found.

• Vallée de la Marne (vine Pinot Meunier) 40 kilometres from Epernay to Dormans :
- Hautvillers : birthplace of Champagne (discover by with Don Perignon in the 18th century).
- Cumières and its paddle boat « Le Champagne Vallee » for a trip on the river.
- Oeuilly and its three Museums from the 19th century.

• Montagne de Reims (vine Pinot Noir) from Reims to Epernay – 45 kilometres
- Reims, city of Coronations and city of Art and History, with the Cathedrale Notre Dame, the Palais du Tau, the Basilica Saint Remi, hosts of magnificent sites from the Gallo-Roman to the Contemporary periods, passing by the Art Deco Style ; 250 kilometres of cellars and prestigious Champagne's Houses ; savoure the pleasure of a glas of champagne withe a pink Reims Biscuit Fossier.
- Circuit of the Romanesque churches of the Valley of the Ardre and its region (33 churches).
- Verzenay at the bottom of the Valley, bounded by a mil and a lighthouse, built in 1909 which became a winemuseum in 1999.
- Verzy, with its twisted beech trees with knotted and deformed trunks in the heart of the Regional National Park (beautiful panorama in Mount Sinaï – 288 meters).
- Between Verzy and Louvois, the Distillerie Guillon, the only whisky Distillery in Champagne.
- Bouzy, its snail's farm and its famous red wine, the Bouzy Rouge.
- Mutigny and its wine-grower's trail – a 2,2 kilometres recreational route in the heart of the vineyeard.

• Many circuits of the historical sites of the Champagne front in the footsteps of the Champagne Armees 1914-1918 – 30 kilometres.
From Dormans to Mondement, from Suippes to the Russian Chapel at Saint-Hilaire-Le-Grand, from Navarrin Monument at Souain to the Museum at Somepy-Tahure.

• From Châlons-en-Champagne to the Lake of Der - Chantecoq – 50 kilometres.
- the half-timbered churches and 16th century stained glas tourist trail.
- Vast stretch of water, measuring more than 4800 herctares, Lake Der – Chantecoq is a fabulous site for a holiday or a week-end ; show case for nature (passage twice a year of migrating birds), watersport and openair centers, camping and picnic places along the different beaches during the summer's season.

So many activities ! Then, quick, book a room for the next week-end and receive in the Hotel your card of the Marnotherapie, the Champaign well-being method !