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Welcome to Remiremont
Tourism resort
Remiremont is a door way to the Vosges Regional and Natural Park, and a tourist resort for summer and winter holidays. With its green areas and its forests, visitors can choose to participate in lots of relaxation and open air activities.
You will be seduced by the prettiness of Remiremont because of its natural beauty. Its arcades and their large selection of shops, its streets and its places have a particularly warm and welcoming atmosphere. Set in the heart of the Vosges mountains. Remiremont offers you peaceful and relaxing holidays in a quiet environment.
Ideally situated in the confluence of the Vosges Valleys, with its town inhabitants numbering 10.000, Remiremont is the ideal beauty spot for you to discover the Upper Vosges. The most important aspect of the leisure area, is that it offers you the opportunity to participate in a large choice of sporting activities.
Cultural town
With its Congress Centre, its Animation Space, its Library, its Social-Cultural and Arts Centre, its Cinema and two Museums, Remiremont is the place of various activities : theatre plays, films, museum contain exceptionnal collections :
Charles de Bruyères - exhibits include a fine art collection, local history and popular traditions.
Charles Friry - is set in a charming garden, its architectural style is very typical of the Chanoinesses' period.
Visit the Saint-Pierre Abbey Church and enjoy the history of the ancient and most interesting building. This includes an 11th century crypt upon which the foundation of the new church were built. The abbey church is one of the oldest church buildings in Lorraine.
Artistical town
Thankfully, the town did not sustain too much damage during World War I and World War II. The buildings of Remiremont have an architectural beauty which has been handed down for several centuries.
The architecture can be seen in the streets and the arcades (being the most typical with its various archs and pillars, showing a spectrum of diversity and proportions) and in numerous places with beautiful water fountains.
Historical town
From 620 to the French Revolution in 1789, Remiremont had lived behind its Abbey. Of the secular time, it has kept the private Chanoinesses' mansions, built all around the Abbey and forming the cloister's precinct. This harmonious architectural whole belongs to the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Chapter of Remiremont was an approved school where one would learn good manners and the perfect place for Royal families and families of nobility who wanted to keep their daughters in comfortable means.
The statue of the Volunteer was offered by the French State in 1899 in gratitude for the public-spiritdness of the inhabitants of Remiremont, when 1300 volunteers were ready to save the threatened homeland in 1792.
Chanoinesses' food
You will have the possibility to taste the famous Vosges smoked meat, the QUiche Lorraine, the Munster (cheese), the bilberry's pie, as well as the "Nonettes" and the "Loriquettes" (cakes), and not to mention the first class trout pâté, so appreciated by our Chanoinesses. We have a good selection of alcoholic drinks for you to sample and purchase, so that you may enjoy and savour them back home.
For more informations
Office de Tourisme du Pays de Remiremont
2, rue Charles de Gaulle
88200 Remiremont
phone : +33 329622370
fax : +33 329239679
http://www.ot-remiremont.fr
email :accueil@ot-remiremont.fr