Reims
【City description】
It’s the city famous for the Champagne. There are champagne fields in the east of the city. The cathedral is the important place because the coronation for every French King took place. For the souvenir, the pink biscuit is famous and good with the champagne.
【Overall rating】
★★★★☆
【Time required】
7 h 30
【Budget】
23 euros
【Fatigue】
★★★★☆
【Sightseeing route】
Downtown Map
【Start】
①Reims station
Gare de Reims
★When you leave the station, go through Colbert Square and enter Drouet d’Erlon Square. It takes 10 minutes by walk.
②Subé Fountain
Time required: 5 min / Admission fee: 0 euro
★Continue to walk on the street and turn left at Libergier St when you find a cathedral over there. It takes 10 minutes.
③Art Museum
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Time required: 90 min / Admission fee: 5 euros
Opening hour: 10 am – noon / 2 pm – 6 pm
Close: Tuesday, 1/1, 5/1, 11/1, 12/25
④Tourist Information Center
Time required: 5 min / Admission fee: 0 euro
⑤Notre-Dame Cathedral
Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims
Time required: 30 min / Admission fee: 0 euro
Opening hour: 7 h 30 am – 7 h 30 pm
Close: No
⑥Palace of Tau
Palais du Tau
Time required: 60 min / Admission fee: 8 euros
Opening hour: 9 h 30 am – 6 h 30 pm (9 h 30 am – 12 h 30 / 2 pm – 5 h 30 pm between September and April)
Close: Monday, 1/1, 5/1, 11/1, 12/25
★The next destination is far from the city. If you don’t have time, you visit ⑨. If you continue the visit, go to Fuseliers St in front of the cathedral. Turn right at the end and turn left immediately to go to Gambetta St. It takes 15 minutes by walk.
⑦Saint-Rémi Basilic
Basilique Saint-Remi
Time required: 15 min / Admission fee: 0 euro
Opening hour: 9 am – 7 pm
Close: No
⑧Saint-Rémi Museum
Musée Saint-Remi
Time required: 60 min / Admission fee: 5 euros
Opening hour: 10 am – noon / 2 pm – 6 pm
Close: Monday, 1/1, 5/1, 11/1, 12/25
★Return to the city with the same route and turn right to go to Voltaire near the cathedral.
⑨Carnegie Library
Bibliothèque Carnegie
Time required: 15 min / Admission fee: 0 euro
Opening hour: 10 am – 1 pm / 2 pm – 7 pm
Close: Sunday, Monday, national holiday
You find the Art Nouveau decoration at the entrance.
★Go to the back of the cathedral and when you arrive at a parking of Forum Square, go to the right. It takes 10 minutes.
⑩Le Vergeur Museum
Musée-Hôtel Le Vergeur
Time required: 60 min / Admission fee: 5 euros
Opening hour: 2 pm – 6 pm (you must participate in a guide tour which starts each o’clock)
Close: Monday
★Go to Colbert St from the square and when you arrive at the city hall, turn left and go to Thiers St. Then, go through a park and return to the station. It takes 15 minutes.
【Goal】
Reims station
【If you have time…】
⑪Foujita Chapel
Chapelle Foujita
Time required: 20 min / Admission fee: 5 euros (you can buy a ticket with this chapel and the art museum)
Opening hour: 10 am – noon / 2 pm – 6 pm between May and November
Close: Tuesday
If you would like to visit the chapel, you turn right before go back to the station from the park.
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