Brit Hotel Les Comtes de Champagne

Troyes


The same massive wooden beams have kept this trio of pastel-hued half-timbered houses vertical since the 16th century. There's a bright courtyard and 12th-century cellar. The old-fashioned rooms would benefit from a lick of paint, however. No lift.


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Nearby Troyes attractions

1. Hôtel de Vauluisant

0.09 MILES

This haunted-looking, Renaissance-style mansion shelters a twinset of unique museums. The Musée de l’Art Champenois is a repository for the evocative…

2. Église St-Pantaléon

0.09 MILES

Faded with age and all the more enigmatic for it, this Renaissance-style, cruciform church, with its barrel-vaulted wood ceiling, is a great place to see…

3. Ruelle des Chats

0.14 MILES

Off rue Champeaux (between Nos 30 and 32), a stroll along tiny ruelle des Chats (Alley of the Cats), as dark and narrow as it was four centuries ago – the…

5. 16th-Century Troyes

0.16 MILES

Half-timbered houses – some with lurching walls and floors that aren’t quite level – line many streets in the old city, rebuilt after a devastating fire…

6. Monument aux Enfants de l'Aube

0.17 MILES

Erected in 1890, this flag-bedecked memorial, topped by a fleeing woman and child, pays tribute to those who died in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.

7. Église Ste-Madeleine

0.17 MILES

Troyes’ oldest and most interesting neighbourhood church has an early Gothic nave and transept and a Renaissance-style choir and tower. The highlights…

8. WWII Memorial

0.29 MILES

This memorial pays homage to those who fought and died in WWII.