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August 3rd, 2009, 07:22 PM
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Rheims : the capital of Champagne
 Technically, it's no more the "capital" of Champagne as Châlons is but it shouldn't prevent the French people from considering that it's unfair. Rheims (Reims in French) is the true France : large plains scattered with big and venerable old towns, a cathedral expressing the genius of the people of this country, wine and an industrious mindset. Rheims embodies the French spirit and the Latin heritage not far from the border with the Germanic lands. Catholicism, our Kings, bourgeoisie. Placenames don't lie : a mix of Celtic settlements (Rheims, Châlons, ...), Roman villae (Epernay, Vrigny, Mutigny, ...), Germanic villages (Heutrégiville, Warmeriville, ...) and above all those medieval creations (Cormontreuil < Curtis Monasteriolis, Châtillon < Castillonem ). This is where Clovis was baptised, where Colbert was born, where France had to suffer the most from German criminal commissions with the bombing of the cathedral. The town was mostly destroyed in 1918 : it was rebuilt in Art-Nouveau and Art-Déco style with much ecclectism. IMO, you don't understand the defeat of 1940 if you don't take into account that the heart of France had been demolished just 20 years before. Time for a little tour beginning with the rail-station in the outskirts of the town : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Reaching the centre-town : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Rue Eugène-Desteuque near the Cathedral in the centre-town : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Around the Cathedral : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Details of the Cathedral : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Visiting the centre-town : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Colbert Street : image hosted on flickr  Place Royale : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Pommery Castle : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Saint-Remi Basilica where Remi is buried : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Around "Porte de Mars", a Roman ruin : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  The Foujita Chapel : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  L'Hôtel de Brimont : image hosted on flickr  Rheims from the towers of the Cathedral : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  The Basilica : image hosted on flickr  Saint-André : image hosted on flickr  The Town Hall : image hosted on flickr  Place Royale : image hosted on flickr  In the distance in the South, the "Montagne de Reims" : image hosted on flickr  Let's leave the town for the neighbouring countryside ("Montagne de Reims") around Epernay (on the right), known of its Champagne : image hosted on flickr  Full Scale Moët et Chandon and other Champagne castles : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  Cumières : image hosted on flickr  Epernay as seen from the heights of Hautvillers : image hosted on flickr  Dizy : image hosted on flickr  Chamery : image hosted on flickr  Sermiers : image hosted on flickr  Rheims as seen from the "mountains" : image hosted on flickr  Rilly-la-Montagne : image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr  image hosted on flickr 
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August 4th, 2009, 12:17 AM
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So far, every place/city I've seen from France looks fabulous. Seriously, what a great country. A fucking amazing capital city, gorgeous cities all over the place, great countryside, great looking little villages and towns, nice weather everywhere... what else can one ask for?
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August 4th, 2009, 12:33 AM
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nice set dude
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March 4th, 2010, 10:49 AM
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I really like the city centre.
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March 4th, 2010, 04:10 PM
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Rheims looks gorgeous.
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March 4th, 2010, 06:29 PM
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Really good photos/shots of Rheims, thanks for those
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March 4th, 2010, 11:21 PM
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Great pictures there - as has already been said, what another incredibly attractive French town/city.
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March 4th, 2010, 11:37 PM
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Awesome!
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March 5th, 2010, 07:25 AM
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The Gothic cathedral is beautiful.
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March 5th, 2010, 11:39 AM
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Indeed, the cathedral of Rheims is really beautiful
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March 5th, 2010, 03:03 PM
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lovely mosaic of architecture! nice thread.
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March 5th, 2010, 06:19 PM
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Thanks for the photos, especially the interior of the great cathedral. Some years back I was going to visit Rheims while on an extended holiday in Paris but a French friend discouraged me saying there was not much to see, but judging by these photos I think he was being a bit unfair - that's the trouble when you come from Paris you think most other (smaller) places are not worth seeing!
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March 5th, 2010, 09:05 PM
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Nice photo set! I don't think I've seen any Reims threads on ssc before, its a city I visited two or three times in the 80s and 90s on my trips to nearby Fismes.
I remember visiting the Mumm champagne cellars but my parents wouldn't let me sample any 
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March 5th, 2010, 09:18 PM
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I can only agree with the previous comments. Very nice city and dito photos.
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March 5th, 2010, 09:19 PM
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Quote:
 Why on God's green Earth did you go to Fismes three times in the 80s and 90s? 
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March 5th, 2010, 10:22 PM
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 I think I went to fismes 4 times actually, with day trips to Reims on 2 or 3 occasions. It is twinned with the town I grew up in and where my parents still live, so I visited once on a school exchange and also families from our town would go and stay there one year while the people of fismes would come to visit us in alternate years.
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March 5th, 2010, 11:34 PM
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I'll never understand how these crazy town twinnings work anyway. It's like you live in a peaceful town of Western Europe, everything is going fine, and next thing you know, your town is twinned with a place in Kazakhstan that you've never heard about and whose name you can't even pronounce. I mean, how on Earth did the people in the Shrewbury local council heard about Fismes in the first place? Did they just unfold a Michelin map of France on the council board table, flipped a coin and looked on which town of France the coin had fallen? PS: It would have made more sense for Shrewbury to twin with Dinan or something like that. PPS: Just imagine if the coin had fallen on Maripasoula. 
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March 5th, 2010, 11:53 PM
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pretty nice city and the gothic cathedral is really awesome!
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March 6th, 2010, 12:08 AM
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Shrewsbury is only twinned with Zutphen in the Netherlands! I have never visited
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