Travel Guide Meuse

The Meuse has a heavy past, and remembrance sites line its roads and forts, but it is also a dream department for nature lovers, in search of conviviality, calm and serenity. Here, we take the time to breathe, to look at the green valleys where the fruit trees bloom in spring. There, we take the time to taste a local wine or to savor a local specialty. The Meuse gourmet region is full of brewing and wine-making traditions that have been passed down from generation to generation. The redcurrant jam of Bar-le-Duc, which melts in the mouth, the dragées of Verdun crunching under the tooth, without forgetting the madeleines of Commercy and other chocolate sweets which are tasted during our visits, delighting our taste buds. This destination is also proud of its historical and architectural heritage. Verdun and its surroundings, a landscape marked, transformed by the bombs, the shells have shaped the valleys of the Meuse under a deluge of bullets. It is history that speaks through this surprising land where nature has regained its rights. Between the forts of Vaux and Douaumont, the battlefields stretch as far as the eye can see. The castles of Commercy and the American memorial of Montsec are also exceptional places for their historical stature and the story they tell. In Vaucouleurs, too, a Joan of Arc museum has been erected to commemorate her visit to the department.