Le Champ des Oiseaux

Troyes


The sister property of La Maison de Rhodes is every bit as pretty, straddling several half-timbered, ivy-swathed houses near the cathedral. The rooms are full of beamed romance, especially the loft room up in the rafters. Breakfast (€23) in the courtyard is something special.


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Nearby Troyes attractions

1. Musée d’Art Moderne

0.02 MILES

Housed in a 16th- to 18th-century bishop’s palace, this place owes its existence to all those crocodile-logo shirts, whose global success allowed Lacoste…

2. Cathédrale St-Pierre et St-Paul

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All at once imposing and delicate with its filigree stonework, Troyes' cathedral is a stellar example of champenoise Gothic architecture. The flamboyant…

3. Hôtel du Chaudron

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One of the founders of the Canadian city of Montréal, Paul Chomeday de Maisonneuve (1612–76), once lived in the Hôtel du Chaudron.

4. La Cité du Vitrail

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Housed in the barn of the 18th-century Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte, this free museum dazzles with 25 works of stained glass reaching from the 12th to the 21st…

6. Basilique St-Urbain

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Begun in 1262 by the Troyes-born Pope Urban IV, whose father’s shoemaker shop once stood on this spot, this church is exuberantly Gothic both inside and…

7. WWII Memorial

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

8. 16th-Century Troyes

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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…