Launch of the "Petite Cité de Caractère" route in Aÿ-Champagne

Name: Lancement du parcours "Petite Cité de Caractère" à Aÿ-Champagne
Start: 2022-09-17T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Commune d'Aÿ-Champagne

The Office de Tourisme Intercommunal d'Hautvillers offers you a route "Small Town of Character" in Aÿ-Champagne, whose hillsides are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Samedi 17 septembre 2022, 10h30, 16h00Passé

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The Office de Tourisme Intercommunal d'Hautvillers offers you a route "Small Town of Character" in Aÿ-Champagne, whose hillsides are listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Discover this little secret city, whose wine was greatly appreciated by King Henry IV.
You will discover a traditional Champagne village, with a rich and diverse heritage, and the history of this vineyard coveted by many kings.
Come and stroll in the vineyards that are among the oldest of the Champagne vineyards.

À propos du lieu

Commune d'Aÿ-Champagne

Place de la Libération, 51150 Aÿ-Champagne

Marne
Grand Est

Aÿ (which can also be spelled Ay) is a village in the Marne, in the Grand Est region, 30 km south of Reims and 5 km north-east of Epernay which it borders.
The municipality merged on 1 January 2016 with the towns of Mareuil-sur-Aÿ and Bisseuil, becoming Aÿ-Champagne. The locality is in fact famous for being one of the locomotives of the Champagne vineyards, with Reims and Epernay, which naturally translates this new name.
Attached to the County of Champagne in the eleventh century and then to the Kingdom of France in the fourteenth, Aÿ obtained a charter conferring on it great freedoms in its administration. Spared by the wars of Religion, the city where the vine is cultivated since the Gallo-Roman era industrialized in the nineteenth thanks to the development of a canal and the railway.
With the cultivation of the vine, the city is prosperous and its population approaches the 8000 inhabitants in the 1920s. However, the metallurgy crisis is impacting the local economy and the populatio