Aube Departmental Tourism Committee at Troyes, in the Champagne Ardennes region

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Aube is a land of history and culture blessed with an extremely rich heritage. With no less than one hundred listed churches, Aube is the centre of the Troyes school of sculpture. The "department of light", with its 9000 m² of stained glass windows and 3000 works of art, it takes first place nationally for its Historical Monuments. Its many museums display collections that are surprising for their richness and diversity. Neolithic megaliths, Medieval churches, renaissance town houses and 18th century chateaus are just waiting to yield their secrets...

	The capital of Aube reveals, with its paved streets: half-timbered houses, Gothic churches and cathedrals, but there are many other cities to visit in the Aube [+]
	Museum of Centre for tools and worker thought, museum of modern art, museum of dolls, ... All the ages, in Aube you will find your happiness. [+]
	Nowhere in France one does not find such a gathering of churches and churches in wood sides. It is indeed about an architecture completely related to its soil which testifies to the perfection of constructions with half-timberings. [+]
	Aube is the cradle of the glass Master which founded the classified stained glasses of our churches; discover also the Champagne’s Cristalleries Royales crystal factories, the potteries of Armance, the squares of Chesley ...[+]
	The life of castle. From "la Motte tilly" to "Droupt Saint Bâle", live a dream of lord of the manor. [+]