Culture and leisure

In the heart of the old Chaumont, the Museum of Art and history offers a tour through time. The Museum of the Neapolitan cribs offers original Nativity scenes.
The International Festival of Graphic Arts together in may professionals and students in exhibitions of posters on a given theme.
For athletes and may, Motocross Poulangy International, June 24 hours Solex enduro in August, the Green adventure, hike Upper-Marne in 4 x 4.
In summer, the feast of hunting, jumping, the holiday harvest festival or even donkey Festival meet the nature lovers.
Pictures Amateur, participate in Rendez-vous de Cinema in the spring, then in the picture in November.
Since 1476, when the St Jean-Baptiste (June 24) is celebrating a Sunday, famous Chaumont Atonement, tradition, religious and popular tradition unique in France.

Activities and relaxation
On the outskirts of the city, the nature offers a range of leisure activities with:
• A rich network of paths through the countryside and the various types of forest undergrowth.
• For hunters and fishermen, a variety of practice sites are at their disposal.
• Golfers can confront the local club of BARROIS.
• High-level jumping together regularly riders and various audiences.
• In summer, minigolf and leisure pool of the District of the jumper will satisfy joy the family.

The Dungeon
Raised on a natural spur overlooking the Valley of the suize over 45 Mr. it was built between the 11th and 12th century and remains the only remnant of the castle of Auditors of Champagne. Square Tower, it has kept its medieval appearance. Originally defensive work, housing the Lord and soldiers, it becomes jail until 1866. Tourist attraction of the city, as point of view since his gallery erected in 1725, as a seat of exhibitions and cultural events. At its feet, the municipal museum offers paintings, sculptures, archaeology and a famous collection of crèches. Restored in 1989, it was reopened to the public on July 7, 1989.

The Basilica of St. John the Baptist
The St. John the Baptist Church is built in collegiate church in 1474 and minor Basilica in 1948. Medium size: 55 m long, 25 m wide and 18 m in height. Remarkable architectural ensemble, it contains the 'memory' of the city. Built, expanded, revised from the 12th to the 16th century, it has a nave of the 12th and the 14th aisles, transept, choir and ambulatory of the 15th and 16th centuries. Many works of art inside, in particular a sepulchre of polychrome characters; a tree of Jesse, and various works by the chaumontais sculptor Bouchardon: high altar, Chair, work bench, furniture.

The Hotel de Ville
The whole edifice, beautiful proportions, was done in a style Louis XVI well understood. It was built on the eve of the revolution by the architect François Nicolas Lancret. Started in 1787, it was completed and approved in August 1790. Note on the triangular pediment of the stem, the figuration of the arms of the city in the midst of military emblems. Happy arrangement of the entrance hall, the grand staircase in double revolution with its wrought iron banister give a beautiful look to this very balanced Interior.

The viaduct
The cornerstone of this work of art was laid on 21 November 1855. November 25, 1856, the first locomotive crosses the viaduct and April 18, 1857, it is the inauguration. It was the Davies engineer who designed the viaduct. The whole constitutes a volume of 60,000 m3. 2500 workers on average are worked day and night. The viaduct is 654 m long, consists of 50 arches on a height of 52 m. stone is one of the most remarkable works of art of the half of the 19th century in Europe, if not in the world. Walkers can borrow the first floor of the building and enjoy a view over the Valley of the Suize.

The turrets
Jewel of chaumontaise architecture, pointing their slender size skyward, turrets break the rhythm of the walls of the old mansions. Therefore, you can admire more than 70 of them, showing off the rounding of their corbelled, carved coats of arms, niches, or the rigidity of their square lines. These turrets, dating from the 16th or 17th century, contain the spiral staircase serving the floors of the houses downtown, and the 'old Chaumont» nestled in its ramparts, at the top of its rocky outcrop in particular.

Chapelle des Jésuites
Commonly called 'High school Chapel'. The set was built from 1629 to 1632 by architects of the society of Jesus. Behind the high altar in carved and gilded wood, is a magnificent altarpiece ' assumption of Bouchardon) which comes from the chapel of the convent of the Ursulines, today destroyed. Under the base of the pillar of the choir left.