Champagne-Ardenne is a former administrative region of France, located in the northeast of the country, bordering Belgium. Mostly corresponding to the historic province of Champagne, the region is known for its sparkling white wine of the same name.
Vineyard in Champagne-Ardenne
City center, Troyes
Moulin de Valmy dans les champs
Ardennes is a department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France named after the broader Ardennes. Its prefecture is the town Charleville-Mézières. The department has 270,582 inhabitants. The inhabitants of the department are known as Ardennais or Ardennaises.
Prefecture building of the Ardennes department, in Charleville-Mézières
A typical landscape of Champagne chalk in the south of the department.
View of the Meuse valley in the north of the department at Givet.
Farm of Porcien in the south-west of the department.