The beautiful French city home to champagne that’s perfect for a weekend getaway – and with flights from just £29

FOODIE fanatics and champagne champions halt your vacation hunt now.

When successful Reims, you'll find delicious gourmet feasts connected glamorous French streets. Bon voyage!

GET FIZZY WITH IT

In a metropolis known for champagne, you indispensable dainty yourself to a glass, oregon three!

At Champagne Pommery, embark connected a subterranean circuit of the cellars, which are filled with immense works of creation astatine each turn.

A one-hour circuit and tasting costs £23 per idiosyncratic (Champagnepommery.com).

Or effort sabring your ain vessel of fizz astatine Pol Couronne, wherever you tin popular the cork disconnected utilizing a sword, past portion the remainder with a mate, £44 (Champagne-polcouronne.com).

Lastly, the Taittinger acquisition offers a slick caller visitant centre, tours of its past cave cellars and a tasting to decorativeness things disconnected nicely, £34 per idiosyncratic (Taittinger.com/en/visits-reims).

SPLURGE-WORTHY STROLLS

Rue de Vesle has the high-street brands covered, but veer disconnected to Rue de Thillois for cult manner faves astatine Maje (Fr.maje.com) and chic secondhand finds astatine Accessible Depot-Vente (@Dressing_accessibledepotvente).

For foodie gifts, similar beautifully illustrated tins of sardines successful olive oil, hot-foot it to Épicerie Madame connected Rue de l’Arbalète (Epiceriemadame.fr).

If you request delicious, inexpensive eats connected the go, drawback a croque monsieur, £4, and a Kiss of Reims, £4 – a joyous deed of vanilla crème brûlée sandwiched betwixt 2 roseate biscuits – implicit astatine Case à Pain (Case-a-pain.fr).

After immoderate French classics? Tuck into beef tartare, £16, and snails with parsley butter, £7, astatine Brasserie du Boulingrin (Boulingrin.fr).

Then, connected agleam days locomotion it each disconnected with a stroll done Les Hautes Promenade parkland to spy the playful h2o fountains – it’s besides big to the glorious Reims Christmas Market travel December.

ART DECO discovery

After WW1, overmuch of Reims was rebuilt successful the 1920s.

For a escaped past lesson, caput to the Art Deco Carnegie Library, with its stunning hanging lantern and elegant stained-glass windows (Bm-reims.fr/patrimoine).

Later, circuit the sumptuously decorated Villa Demoiselle, finishing successful benignant with a solid of crisp Vranken fizz (Vrankenpommery.com/visites).

Alternatively, premix nutrient with sightseeing astatine Café du Palais, taking successful its quirky interiors, antiques, artworks and an epic solid ceiling.

The succulent duck confit, £18.50, is excellent, excessively (Cafedupalais.fr).

A amusive factory

Visit the oldest biscuit mill successful France for a circuit and a sensation of Fossier’s delicate pinkish biscuits – these creations person been successful accumulation since the 18th century.

Tours outgo £4.60 per idiosyncratic (Fossier.fr).

For thing much spiritual, measurement wrong the gothic Reims Cathedral.

It’s escaped to visit, larger than the Notre-Dame successful Paris and boasts much than 2,000 statues (Cathedrale-reims.com).

Finally, astatine the Surrender Museum, bedecked with maps, warfare stats and displays, you tin basal successful the War Room itself, conscionable metres from the precise array wherever 34th US President Dwight Eisenhower’s squad received the authoritative Nazi surrender to extremity WW2 successful Europe.

Entry costs £4.60 per idiosyncratic (Musees-reims.fr/fr/musees/musee-de-la-reddition).

BREAKFAST BUBBLES

Kip successful modern rooms astatine Best Western Hotel De La Paix Reims. Despite its super-central spot, you inactive container a garden, pool, solarium, sauna and a chic edifice serving up treats specified arsenic champagne biscuit jam for breakfast.

Double rooms outgo from £135 (Bestwestern-lapaix-reims.com).