Ardennes (08)

Champagne-Ardennes height above sea level 150 metres

8089 inhabitants

290 km from Paris

Places of interest in REVIN

The Spanish House ( la Maison espagnole )

This timbered house dates from the 16th century. At that time the property of a well-off merchant. It is one of the last of its type in Revin. The ground floor houses an exhibition of the foundry industry.

The Mont Malgré-tout is 450 metres high and fascinated George Sand who used it as the setting for her book entitled “Malgré-tout”.

The site also is a memorial to the maquisards (residence fighters) who were massacred on the plateau of the Manises. It provides viewpoints from which it is possible to Admire the countryside. The church of the Dominicans was built in the middle of the 17th century and was enlarged at the beginning of the 18th century. A college was added which was then transformed into a school. In 1886 the convent and the presbytery were destroyed by fire. At present it is fairly plain but inside you can see beautiful wood carving : the pews, the altar, the high altar and the confessionals.

Revin obtained the 2nd flower category of awards for beautiful towns and villages awarded officially on the occasion of the flower market (13 may 2007)

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