Aube: what to see and do
12 sites listed in the département. Historic capital of Champagne, the Aube combines renowned vineyards, Gothic cathedrals and large artificial lakes such as the Lac de la Forêt d'Orient. Troyes, its main town, charms with its timber-framed houses and a historic centre shaped like a champagne cork.
Troyes
Historic capital of Champagne, famous for its colourful half-timbered houses and its old centre shaped like a champagne cork.
Château de Chacenay
Château de La Motte-Tilly
Near Nogent-sur-Seine, the château de La Motte-Tilly, a remarkable witness of eighteenth-century classical architecture, unfolds its harmonious façades in the heart of a vast park.
Croisières du Lac d'Orient
Forêt d'Orient
Les grands lacs de la forêt d'Orient
In the east, in the Aube, in the Orient, on the margins of the Paris Basin and south of Champagne, stretches a vast mysterious land where water, earth and forest have given birth to a singular territory, fruit of nature and of people.
Maison de l'outil et de la pensée ouvrière
The Maison de l'Outil et de la Pensée Ouvrière houses a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century tools exceptional in its richness and diversity.
Musée Camille-Claudel
This sculpture museum is devoted not only to the work of Camille Claudel but also to nineteenth-century French sculpture, and in particular to the work of artists who lived and worked in Nogent-sur-Seine and/or were closely or distantly linked to Camille Claudel.
Musée d'art moderne de Troyes
The Troyes modern art museum is the town's most important museum together with the fine arts museum, and one of the richest modern art museums in provincial France.
Nigloland
Abbaye de Clairvaux
Lac d'Orient
The third largest artificial lake in France, heart of the Forêt d'Orient Regional Nature Park.