{"id":857,"date":"2026-03-27T22:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/en\/?p=857"},"modified":"2026-03-29T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T15:26:25","slug":"reims-architecture-2000-years-of-history-in-16-iconic-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/en\/reims-architecture-2000-years-of-history-in-16-iconic-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Reims Architecture: 2,000 Years of History in 16 Iconic Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"857\" class=\"elementor elementor-857\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ff0f726 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ff0f726\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9270bb2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-html\" data-id=\"9270bb2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"html.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- hreflang -->\n<link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"fr\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/reims-la-ville-aux-2000-ans-architecture\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/en\/reims-2000-years-of-architecture\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"alternate\" hreflang=\"x-default\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/reims-la-ville-aux-2000-ans-architecture\/\" \/>\n\n<link href=\"https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Playfair+Display:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;0,900;1,400;1,700&family=Lora:ital,wght@0,400;0,500;1,400&family=DM+Sans:wght@300;400;500&display=swap\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n\n<style>\n.ra-wrap { all: initial; 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And then there's Reims. Here, you don't have to choose between Roman antiquity, the mystical Middle Ages, Jesuit baroque, or Art Deco elegance \u2014 they all coexist, <strong>stone against stone<\/strong>, within a few hundred metres of each other. Reims isn't an open-air museum \u2014 it's a living city that has moved through the centuries, letting each era inscribe its signature.<\/span>\n    <span class=\"ra-hero-intro\">From the Roman cryptoporticus buried beneath the streets to the future Museum of Fine Arts whose Golden Rift is set to open in 2027, this is an architectural journey through twenty centuries of history, told through <strong>sixteen iconic buildings<\/strong>. First time in Reims? Start with our article <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/en\/13-things-to-know-about-reims\/\">13 things to know about Reims<\/a>.<\/span>\n    <span class=\"ra-hero-tag\">Wear comfortable shoes. And bring your curiosity.<\/span>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ====== ERA I : ROME ====== -->\n  <div class=\"ra-era\" id=\"ra-rome\">\n    <div class=\"ra-container\">\n      <div class=\"ra-era-header ra-fi\">\n        <div class=\"ra-era-number\">I<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ra-era-info\">\n          <span class=\"ra-era-period\">1st \u2013 3rd century<\/span>\n          <span class=\"ra-era-title\">When Reims was Roman<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-era-intro ra-fi\">Before it became the city of royal coronations, before it was even called Reims, it went by the name <em>Durocortorum<\/em> \u2014 and it was one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire. With 80,000 inhabitants in the 2nd century, it was more populous than Lutetia. Two extraordinary remnants survive from that era of splendour: one buried underground, one reaching skyward.<\/span>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Cryptoporticus<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1st \u2013 2nd century AD<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Underground cultural space \u2014 open May\u2013September<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>Descend beneath the Place du Forum, and you find yourself literally in antiquity. These underground galleries, rediscovered in 1838 during construction works, were the foundations of the ancient forum of Durocortorum. Cool in summer and mysterious in all seasons, they have been freely accessible since 1983. A journey through time, two metres below the cobblestones.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Mars Gate<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">c. 200 \u2013 250 AD<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Listed archaeological monument, open-air<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>It has been standing for 1,800 years, and it shows no signs of age. The Mars Gate is one of the largest Roman triumphal arches still standing in the world: 33 metres wide, three majestic arches, bas-reliefs depicting Romulus and Remus, Jupiter and Leda. It was once one of four great gates into the Roman city. Today it stands in the city centre, as though eighteen centuries simply passed it by. Remarkable.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-galerie ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-galerie-label\">Gallery \u2014 The Roman Era<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-galerie-grid cols-3\">\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_0027-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Cryptoporticus in Reims \u2013 underground galleries of the ancient Roman forum, 1st century AD\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Cryptoporticus \u2014 view 1<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Cryptoportique.jpg\" alt=\"Interior of the Reims Cryptoporticus \u2013 barrel-vaulted galleries of the Gallo-Roman era\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Cryptoporticus \u2014 view 2<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_9685-scaled.png\" alt=\"Mars Gate in Reims \u2013 Roman triumphal arch, 3rd century AD, 33 metres wide, listed monument\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Mars Gate<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ====== ERA II : MIDDLE AGES ====== -->\n  <div class=\"ra-era\" id=\"ra-sacre\">\n    <div class=\"ra-container\">\n      <div class=\"ra-era-header ra-fi\">\n        <div class=\"ra-era-number\">II<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ra-era-info\">\n          <span class=\"ra-era-period\">11th \u2013 13th century<\/span>\n          <span class=\"ra-era-title\">The golden age of the coronation<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-era-intro ra-fi\">The Middle Ages made Reims what it truly is: the city of the kings of France. It was here, deep within a cathedral or in the heart of a basilica, that the divine legitimacy of power was decided. Two buildings embody this period better than any other.<\/span>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Basilica of Saint-Remi<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">founded c. 1005<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Active basilica, historical museum \u2014 UNESCO listed<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>Less famous than its neighbour the cathedral, the Basilica of Saint-Remi predates it by two centuries \u2014 and in many ways, it is the more moving of the two. It was here, around the tomb of Saint Remigius, that everything began: around 496\u2013498 AD (the exact date remains debated among historians), the bishop baptised Clovis, king of the Franks, making Reims the spiritual cradle of a nation not yet called France. The Holy Ampulla, kept here, was used to anoint kings at their coronations. Its Romanesque and Gothic architecture \u2014 sober, powerful \u2014 commands quiet reverence. A foundational place.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">Notre-Dame Cathedral<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1211 \u2013 15th century<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Active cathedral, major landmark \u2014 UNESCO listed<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>It is hard to write about Reims without writing about the cathedral. Harder still to avoid superlatives. So here they are: it is one of the absolute masterpieces of French Gothic architecture, with its 2,303 sculptures, its stained-glass windows including several signed by Marc Chagall, and its nave rising 38 metres \u2014 while the exterior towers reach 81 metres. Twenty-five kings of France were crowned here, from Louis VIII in 1223 to Charles X in 1825. Bombed and set ablaze in 1914, partially destroyed, it was painstakingly restored thanks in large part to the patronage of John D. Rockefeller. Its resurrection is, in its own way, another Reims miracle.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-galerie ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-galerie-label\">Gallery \u2014 The golden age of the coronation<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-galerie-grid cols-2\">\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/basilique-saint-remi.png\" alt=\"Basilica of Saint-Remi in Reims \u2013 Romanesque and Gothic architecture, 11th century, UNESCO World Heritage Site\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Basilica of Saint-Remi<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/649915932_1229865879344817_4659307744007026761_n.jpg\" alt=\"Notre-Dame Cathedral in Reims \u2013 Gothic fa\u00e7ade, 13th century, 2,303 sculptures, UNESCO World Heritage Site\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Notre-Dame Cathedral<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ====== ERA III : RENAISSANCE ====== -->\n  <div class=\"ra-era\" id=\"ra-renaissance\">\n    <div class=\"ra-container\">\n      <div class=\"ra-era-header ra-fi\">\n        <div class=\"ra-era-number\">III<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ra-era-info\">\n          <span class=\"ra-era-period\">16th \u2013 17th century<\/span>\n          <span class=\"ra-era-title\">The Renaissance and the age of learning<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-era-intro ra-fi\">After the royal grandeur of the Middle Ages, Reims entered the Renaissance with the same pursuit of beauty and elevation \u2014 but now in service of the bourgeoisie and scholarship as much as the clergy. And the Palais du Tau, long the residence of the archbishops adjoining the cathedral, took on its definitive form during this period.<\/span>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Palais du Tau<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">4th \u2013 17th century<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Museum of the Coronations \u2014 reopening expected 2026 \u2014 UNESCO listed<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>Standing directly beside the cathedral, the Palais du Tau is its earthly counterpart. Its origins date back to the 4th century, and it was here that kings would don their ceremonial robes before the coronation, and feast in the great hall afterwards. It was in the 17th century that the building took its current form, extensively remodelled between 1671 and 1710 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart \u2014 the architect of Versailles. Today it houses the Museum of the Coronations, where the cathedral's statuary and tapestries are kept alongside an exceptional royal treasury. Listed alongside the cathedral and Saint-Remi as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the three together form an irreplaceable triptych.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The H\u00f4tel du Vergeur<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">13th \u2013 16th century<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Mus\u00e9e-H\u00f4tel Le Vergeur \u2014 listed as a Maison des Illustres since 2022<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\">\n          <p>Tucked away on the Place du Forum, steps from the Roman cryptoporticus, the H\u00f4tel du Vergeur is one of the oldest civil buildings in Reims. Its origins date to the 13th century, when the Forum neighbourhood was home to the city's wealthy merchants. In the 16th century, Nicolas Le Vergeur \u2014 a bourgeois who had prospered from the salt tax \u2014 transformed it, giving it the Renaissance fa\u00e7ades arranged around an inner courtyard that still stand today: an architectural gem that weathered wars and centuries without losing its soul.<\/p>\n          <p>But it is the building's last private owner, Hugues Krafft, who gave it its extraordinary dimension. This inveterate traveller, who founded the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Amis du Vieux Reims in 1909, bought the building in 1910 to save it from neglect. After the bombardments of the Great War left the building badly damaged, he patiently oversaw its restoration \u2014 and went further still: he created in the garden a kind of open-air architectural museum, gathering fa\u00e7ades, doorways and fragments from Reims buildings destroyed in the war, rescuing from oblivion what the bombs had spared. At his death in 1935, he bequeathed everything to his association. The museum today holds two complete series of original engravings by Albrecht D\u00fcrer \u2014 the Apocalypse and the Great Passion \u2014 alongside collections of furniture and decorative arts spanning the 18th to early 20th century. A discreet, intimate, and deeply moving place.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Former Jesuit College<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1617 \u2013 1778<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Sciences Po Paris campus \u00b7 Louis Aragon Media Library<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>This is one of Reims's best-kept secrets. Founded in 1617 by the Society of Jesus to educate the intellectual and religious elite, the college houses one of the finest Baroque libraries in France: original period woodwork, a painted ceiling, centuries of silence and leather-bound volumes. After the Jesuits were expelled in 1762, the building became an imperial lyc\u00e9e, then a municipal one. Since 2010, it has been home to the Reims campus of Sciences Po Paris \u2014 which, when you think about it, is a striking historical continuity: the Jesuits trained the elites of the 17th century; Sciences Po trains those of the 21st. Same place, same purpose. Only the access has broadened.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The City Hall<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1627 \u2013 1928 (in several phases)<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Seat of Reims City Council<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>Its history mirrors Reims itself: rich, layered, and scarred by war. The foundation stone was laid in 1627; the Baroque fa\u00e7ade inaugurated in 1636. But construction dragged on until 1880. Then came 1917: the bombardments set the building ablaze, leaving only the outer walls standing. The interior was entirely rebuilt in the 1920s in Art Deco style, a striking contrast to its Baroque shell. The result is a building that is simultaneously of the 17th century and the 1920s \u2014 an architectural mille-feuille that tells the fractures of history better than any book.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-galerie ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-galerie-label\">Gallery \u2014 The Renaissance and the age of learning<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-galerie-grid cols-4\">\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8040.jpg\" alt=\"Palais du Tau in Reims \u2013 royal coronation residence, 17th century by Hardouin-Mansart, UNESCO listed\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Palais du Tau<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/APC_0045-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"H\u00f4tel du Vergeur in Reims \u2013 Renaissance fa\u00e7ade, 16th century, Place du Forum, museum with Albrecht D\u00fcrer engravings\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">H\u00f4tel du Vergeur<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/college-jesuites.jpg\" alt=\"Former Jesuit College in Reims \u2013 Baroque library, 17th century, Sciences Po Paris campus\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Jesuit College<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_0421-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"City Hall of Reims \u2013 Baroque fa\u00e7ade 1636 with Art Deco interior rebuilt after the 1917 bombardments\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">City Hall<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-sep ra-fi\">\u2726 \u2726 \u2726<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ====== ERA IV : 19TH CENTURY ====== -->\n  <div class=\"ra-era\" id=\"ra-xixe\">\n    <div class=\"ra-container\">\n      <div class=\"ra-era-header ra-fi\">\n        <div class=\"ra-era-number\">IV<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ra-era-info\">\n          <span class=\"ra-era-period\">19th century<\/span>\n          <span class=\"ra-era-title\">Champagne, the bourgeoisie, and the art of living<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-era-intro ra-fi\">You cannot walk through central Reims without being struck by an architectural layer that is often underestimated: the grand private mansions of the 19th century. Under the Second Empire, the city demolished its old ramparts and replaced them with wide boulevards, much as Haussmann was doing simultaneously in Paris. Along these new thoroughfares, a prosperous bourgeoisie \u2014 champagne merchants, textile manufacturers, industrial magnates \u2014 commissioned extravagant residences. The result today forms one of the most coherent ensembles of bourgeois prestige architecture in northern France.<\/span>\n      <span class=\"ra-era-intro ra-fi\">The leading figure of this transformation was the Reims architect Alphonse Gosset, who worked tirelessly from 1839 onwards for the city's great fortunes. His most emblematic achievement: <strong>Boulevard Lundy<\/strong>, a genuine promenade of champagne palaces, lined with the Neoclassical and Second Empire fa\u00e7ades of the houses of Werl\u00e9, Roederer, Ruinart, Mumm and Lanson. Here stands the H\u00f4tel de Brimont, built in 1897 for Maison Ruinart in neo-Louis XV style, now the headquarters of Champagne Jacquart \u2014 and the H\u00f4tel du Marc, erected in 1840 for \u00c9douard Werl\u00e9, successor to Madame Clicquot, in sober Neoclassical elegance. The Boulevard de la Paix, Rue Piper and Rue des Moissons offer equally remarkable examples.<\/span>\n      <span class=\"ra-era-intro ra-fi\">The Great War certainly claimed a portion of this heritage \u2014 fa\u00e7ades pitted by shrapnel still bear witness here and there. But contrary to popular belief, enough survived for the entire city centre to be listed today as a <strong>Site Patrimonial Remarquable<\/strong>. To wander these streets is to understand how the prosperity of Champagne literally built this city. Looking to extend the experience? Discover our guide to the <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/en\/5-unmissable-champagne-bars-in-reims\/\">5 unmissable champagne bars in Reims<\/a>. And if the Reims bourgeoisie knew how to build palatial homes, they knew equally well how to entertain in style \u2014 as the Circus and the Opera House, inaugurated six years apart by the same architects for the same audience, make abundantly clear.<\/span>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Circus of Reims<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1865 \u2013 1867<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">National Stage \"Le Man\u00e8ge\" \u2014 listed historical monument<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>Designed by architect Narcisse Brunette and inaugurated on 21 April 1867, the Circus of Reims is one of the last surviving permanent circus buildings of the 19th century in France. Equestrian shows, cinema from 1896, boxing, wrestling \u2014 it has seen it all. Today converted into a national stage under the name Le Man\u00e8ge, it hosts contemporary circus, dance and movement arts \u2014 a pleasing faithfulness to its original spirit. Listed as a historical monument in 1994, it is one of the most overlooked buildings in the city, and one of the most endearing.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Opera House<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1873<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Active opera house, Italian-style theatre<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>No account of 19th-century cultural life in Reims would be complete without its Opera House. Designed by the same Alphonse Gosset \u2014 the unavoidable architect of bourgeois Reims \u2014 in collaboration with Narcisse Brunette and Ernest Lecl\u00e8re, it was inaugurated in 1873. Gosset drew inspiration from the plans of the future Palais Garnier in Paris, then still under construction: the same gradation of rooflines between foyer, auditorium and stage, a similar organisation of the fa\u00e7ade. The means and the scale are naturally not the same \u2014 and the result is a more restrained, more R\u00e9mois Neoclassical hall, with its 1,200 seats and circular frieze dedicated to the theatrical arts. Like so many buildings in Reims, it survived the Great War only as a shell: the interior was entirely rebuilt between 1931 and 1932, with a monumental 7.5-metre chandelier by Edgar Brandt and an Art Deco interior evoking the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es. The result: a Neoclassical envelope around a resolutely modern heart. Still in full operation today, it welcomes operas, ballets and concerts in a setting of red velvet and gold.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-galerie ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-galerie-label\">Gallery \u2014 Champagne, the bourgeoisie, and the art of living<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-galerie-grid cols-4\">\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/hotel-brimont-scaled.png\" alt=\"H\u00f4tel de Brimont on Boulevard Lundy in Reims \u2013 neo-Louis XV architecture, 19th century, Champagne Jacquart headquarters\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">H\u00f4tel de Brimont<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_8034.jpg\" alt=\"Circus of Reims \u2013 19th-century building converted into the Le Man\u00e8ge national stage, listed historical monument\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Circus of Reims<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/opera-reims.png\" alt=\"Neoclassical fa\u00e7ade of the Reims Opera House \u2013 inaugurated in 1873 by architect Alphonse Gosset\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Opera House \u2014 fa\u00e7ade<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/opera-reims-interieur.jpg\" alt=\"Art Deco interior of the Reims Opera House \u2013 Edgar Brandt chandelier 7.5m, red velvet and gold, rebuilt 1931\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Opera House \u2014 interior<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-sep ra-fi\">\u2726 \u2726 \u2726<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ====== ERA V : ART DECO ====== -->\n  <div class=\"ra-era\" id=\"ra-artdeco\">\n    <div class=\"ra-container\">\n      <div class=\"ra-era-header ra-fi\">\n        <div class=\"ra-era-number\">V<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ra-era-info\">\n          <span class=\"ra-era-period\">1900 \u2013 1934<\/span>\n          <span class=\"ra-era-title\">The great renewal \u2014 Art Nouveau &amp; Art Deco<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-era-intro ra-fi\">The Great War of 1914\u20131918 razed 80% of Reims. What could have been a permanent catastrophe became, paradoxically, a remarkable architectural opportunity: to rebuild, reimagine, and innovate. The result is one of the most coherent <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/en\/art-deco-trail-reims\/\">Art Deco<\/a> ensembles in Europe \u2014 for a full guided experience, follow our detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/en\/art-deco-trail-reims\/\">Art Deco trail through Reims<\/a>. But just before the war, another aesthetic had already left its mark.<\/span>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">Villa Demoiselle<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1904 \u2013 1908<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Vranken-Pommery property \u2014 open for visits<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>A gem of transition between Art Nouveau and Art Deco, Villa Demoiselle was built between 1904 and 1908 for Henry Vasnier, director of Maison Pommery and passionate art collector, who dreamed of a home that could house his collection like a private museum. Architect Louis Sorel broke new ground by building the villa on a steel and concrete frame \u2014 a first for the era. Elegant fa\u00e7ades, elaborate ironwork, botanical interior decoration: everything here breathes the total artwork that Vasnier had envisioned. He died in 1907, before seeing it completed. Left to ruin in the 1980s and threatened with demolition, it was saved and fully restored by Paul-Fran\u00e7ois and Nathalie Vranken from 2004 onwards. A fine story of heritage rescue.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Carnegie Library<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1919 \u2013 1930<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Public media library<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>In 1919, as Reims emerged in ruins from four years of bombardment, the Carnegie Foundation funded the construction of a library as a symbol of cultural rebirth. Building work continued until 1928; the inauguration took place in 1930. This act of international solidarity \u2014 coming from America \u2014 carries something deeply moving: rebuilding knowledge before rebuilding stone. The building, sober and elegant, is today a thriving public media library.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Boulingrin Market Hall<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1927 \u2013 1929<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Market hall and events venue \u2014 listed historical monument<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>If the cathedral is the symbol of medieval Reims, the Boulingrin Market Hall is the symbol of 20th-century renewal. Designed by architect \u00c9mile Maigrot and inaugurated in 1929, it owes its structural feat to engineer Eug\u00e8ne Freyssinet: a parabolic concrete vault just 7 centimetres thick, with a 38-metre span, covering a rectangular space of 49 by 109 metres. No central pillar, light as an eggshell. Fallen into disuse and threatened with demolition in the 1980s, it was saved by a listing as a historical monument in 1990 and restored in 2012. A testament to the audacity of a city rebuilding itself after the devastation of 1914\u20131918, it still pulses today with a market and cultural events.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">Reims Railway Station<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1930 \u2013 1934<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Active railway station<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>Rebuilt in Art Deco style after the original 1858 station was destroyed, Reims railway station was inaugurated in 1934. It is often the first thing visitors see when arriving by train \u2014 and it is a fine introduction: clean lines, controlled geometry, pale stone. It sets the tone for a city that chose, in the wake of wartime devastation, elegance and modernity over nostalgia.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-galerie ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-galerie-label\">Gallery \u2014 Art Nouveau &amp; Art Deco<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-galerie-grid cols-4\">\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/villa-demoiselle-upgrade.png\" alt=\"Villa Demoiselle in Reims \u2013 Art Nouveau 1904\u20131908, Vranken-Pommery property, open for visits\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Villa Demoiselle<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/103928408_1619061254917513_7750100879599512238_o-1.jpg\" alt=\"Carnegie Library in Reims \u2013 Art Deco media library inaugurated in 1930, funded by the Carnegie Foundation\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Carnegie Library<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/halles-boulingrin.png\" alt=\"Boulingrin Market Hall in Reims \u2013 Freyssinet parabolic concrete vault 1929, Art Deco listed monument\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Boulingrin Market Hall<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5503-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Reims railway station Art Deco \u2013 fa\u00e7ade inaugurated in 1934, the city's first architectural welcome\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Railway Station<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-sep ra-fi\">\u2726 \u2726 \u2726<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- ====== ERA VI : LIVING ART ====== -->\n  <div class=\"ra-era\" id=\"ra-vivant\">\n    <div class=\"ra-container\">\n      <div class=\"ra-era-header ra-fi\">\n        <div class=\"ra-era-number\">VI<\/div>\n        <div class=\"ra-era-info\">\n          <span class=\"ra-era-period\">1966 \u2013 2027<\/span>\n          <span class=\"ra-era-title\">Living art<\/span>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n      <span class=\"ra-era-intro ra-fi\">If Reims has moved through two millennia letting each era inscribe its mark, recent decades are no exception. Two projects, sixty years apart, illustrate the city's capacity to keep reinventing itself without ever betraying its soul.<\/span>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Foujita Chapel<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">1964 \u2013 1966<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Catholic chapel \u2014 place of worship and visits<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\"><p>Small in scale but immense in emotional power, the Foujita Chapel is one of Reims's hidden treasures. Built from 1964 at the initiative of Ren\u00e9 Lalou, president of Champagne Mumm and godfather of the painter, it was entirely designed and decorated by L\u00e9onard Foujita himself \u2014 in his eighties. Between June and August 1966, he painted its frescoes directly onto wet cement, with no possibility of going back: 200 square metres of biblical compositions of extraordinary delicacy, weaving his Japanese sensibility into the visual language of the Italian Renaissance. Consecrated on 1 October 1966, the chapel is the artistic testament of a man of faith. Foujita is buried here, as he wished. A place that even non-believers leave moved.<\/p><\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-galerie ra-fi\">\n        <span class=\"ra-galerie-label\">Gallery \u2014 The Foujita Chapel<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-galerie-grid cols-3\">\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/chapelle-foujita.png\" alt=\"Foujita Chapel in Reims \u2013 exterior of the chapel built 1964\u20131966, burial place of the painter Foujita\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Chapel \u2014 exterior<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cene-foujita.png\" alt=\"Last Supper fresco in the Foujita Chapel in Reims \u2013 200 sq metres of murals painted on wet cement, 1966\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Chapel \u2014 The Last Supper<\/span><\/div>\n          <div class=\"ra-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bonjour-reims.fr\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/106930-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Stained glass windows of the Foujita Chapel in Reims \u2013 biblical compositions blending Japanese culture and the Italian Renaissance\"><span class=\"ra-photo-label\">Chapel \u2014 stained glass<\/span><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n\n      <div class=\"ra-batiment ra-fi\" style=\"margin-top: 52px;\">\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-name\">The Museum of Fine Arts<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-date\">reopening 2027<\/span>\n        <span class=\"ra-batiment-meta\">Under renovation \u2014 reopening expected late 2027<\/span>\n        <div class=\"ra-batiment-body\">\n          <p>Housed since 1913 in the 18th-century buildings of the former Abbey of Saint-Denis, steps from the cathedral, the Reims Museum of Fine Arts holds one of the most prestigious collections among French regional museums: thirteen portraits by Cranach the Elder and Younger, a Corot collection rivalled in France only by the Louvre, masterworks of Impressionism and Art Deco, and more than 1,300 drawings by Foujita bequeathed by his heirs \u2014 making it the natural museum counterpart to the nearby chapel.<\/p>\n          <p>Closed since 2019 for renovation, it is undergoing an ambitious transformation entrusted to Portuguese architects Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus \u2014 \u20ac45 million, tripled exhibition space, and a clear philosophy: not to erase the past, but to reveal it. The project redraws the former abbey cloisters in a spare, contemporary gesture, opens the museum onto the city with two freely accessible courtyards, and frames a direct view of the cathedral from the entrance. The centrepiece? The <em>Golden Rift<\/em> \u2014 a long staircase clad in gold leaf, carved into the main courtyard, symbolising the passage between old and new, and a nod to the famous chalk cellars that run beneath the city.<\/p>\n          <p>Perhaps this project says best who Reims is: a city that does not build beside its heritage, but within it. Reopening expected late 2027 \u2014 a good reason to come back.<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n\n  <!-- CONCLUSION -->\n  <div class=\"ra-conclusion\" id=\"ra-conclusion\">\n    <div class=\"ra-container\">\n      <span class=\"ra-conclusion-titre\">Reims, or the art of crossing centuries<\/span>\n      <span class=\"ra-conclusion-body\">Two thousand years of history. Sixteen iconic buildings. One city. Reims is one of those rare places where a single day's walk can take you through the Roman Empire, the Kingdom of France, the elegance of the Belle \u00c9poque, and the Art Deco rebirth of the interwar years \u2014 without ever feeling like you're in a museum.<\/span>\n      <span class=\"ra-conclusion-body\">Because that may be the true miracle of Reims: these buildings are not relics. They live. The cathedral holds services. The Jesuit College shapes tomorrow's leaders. The Boulingrin resounds during concerts. The railway station sends and receives travellers every day. Reims is not a city contemplating its past \u2014 it is a city that inhabits its history. To get the full picture before you visit, read our article <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bonjour-reims.fr\/en\/13-things-to-know-about-reims\/\">13 things to know about Reims<\/a>.<\/span>\n      <span class=\"ra-conclusion-citation\">You don't visit Reims. 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