Imagine that happy day around 1700, when the monk Dom Perignon, after much fiddling with the double fermentation of his grape juice, stumbled onto a bubbly delight. Having tasted the very first glass ...

France's bustling, modern Reims greets travelers with cellar doors wide open. As the capital of the Champagne region, it features a lively center, a historic cathedral, and, of course, Champagne ...

The outstanding handling of new architectural techniques in the 13th century, and the harmonious marriage of sculptural decoration with architecture, has made Notre-Dame in Reims one of the ...

A sound-and-light show in Reims shows how the facade of the cathedral might have looked when it was painted in the 13th century. Rick Steves France’s bustling, modern Reims greets travelers with ...

Could the capital of the Champagne region really be anything other than credit card-scorchingly expensive? The glorious answer is ‘oui’. Many of Reims’s Champagne houses have surprisingly affordable ...

Reims is a remarkable city with a special feel; it's big enough to keep you busy but it still has plenty of spaces to sit, relax, and soak in the feel of this beautiful French metropolitan spot. There ...

Reims, France, boasts the best of European travel condensed into a single little city. It's the home of crowned kings, Christian faith, Gothic majesty and luminescent wine. It's also where a sad, ...

In mid-September 1914, it was still anyone’s guess who would win the Great War on the ground—but the Allies had already won the propaganda war, as far as public opinion in neutral countries was ...

France’s bustling, modern Reims greets travelers with cellar doors wide open. As the capital of the Champagne region, it features a lively center, a historic cathedral, and, of course, Champagne ...