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Reims History and Monuments

Reims History and Monuments

Reims · France

14 stops9.6 km5 h 41 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Reims by following its churches, palace, gates, civic buildings, and market hall in a carefully ordered sequence. You will see how religious, royal, defensive, commercial, and civic landmarks give the city its layered character. Pause to compare the grand scale of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame with the more intimate Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix, then continue among historic gateways, squares, and churches. Let each stop tell you something different about the city’s past, and enjoy the changing atmosphere as the route unfolds from one monument to the next.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Reims Cathedral

    Reims Cathedral

    A Gothic cathedral built for coronations, rebuilt after fire, and marked by 2,303 statues.

  2. Palace of Tau

    Palace of Tau

    The archbishop’s palace where French kings dressed for coronation and celebrated afterwards

  3. Porte Bazée

    Porte Bazée

    A Roman gateway whose stones were swallowed by Reims’s later walls and waterworks.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Villa Douce

    Villa Douce

    A 1929 Art Deco house built for a notary, later turned into a university headquarters.

  6. Foujita Chapel

    Foujita Chapel

    A chapel designed, painted, and eventually chosen as the burial place of Tsuguharu Foujita.

  7. Halles du Boulingrin

    Halles du Boulingrin

    A 1929 concrete market hall that survived war, neglect, and a threatened demolition.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

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  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.