Reims is the capital of the Champagne, a famous territory by the taken care of drink that takes its name. It has something more than 200,000 inhabitants, and counts on a magnificent urban helmet in which still valuable details of the past are appraised.
The wars have damaged their urban structure and its patrimony, which appreciates in its main monument, the cathedral, whose show windows underwent the warlike destructions.
Tourist, the city sufficiently is not valued. For many it is only one shutdown of the way in the trip to Paris. But the sensible traveller to the art understands that both great monuments of Reims, the cathedral and Saint-Remi, are models in their sort and deserve to be located between the best artistic works made by the man.
In order to know the city a complete day is advisable.
Two thousand years of dense life have made of Reims a key city of the history of the West.
This one is the city where the kings of France crowned themselves, a large city that shows the visitor elenco magnificent of monuments World-wide Patrimony of UNESCO.
Among them they emphasize the magnificent gothic cathedral and the great abbey of Saint-Remi, one of jewels little known the Romanesque end.