The Ardennes is a green, hilly department with many rivers. Literature has a predominant place there. The writers linked to it are real legends. In Langres, Diderot, a native of the city, is honored by a museum. It is also the land of poets, especially with the sulphurous Verlaine and Rimbaud (native of Charleville-Mézières). In Juniville, the Auberge du Lion d'Or has been converted into the Verlaine Museum. On 1 500 square meters, you can discover the life of the one for whom "there are in France regions as beautiful as the Ardennes, there is perhaps none more beautiful". Rimbaud is not left out:the Old Mill of Charleville shelters notably manuscripts, among which the one of Voyelles (sonnet in alexandrines written in 1871 or at the beginning of 1872 and published only on October 5, 1883 in the magazine Lutèce). You will also be able to swim in the two lakes: the lake of Vieille-Forges and the lake of Bairon. But also go to the animal park of Charleville-Mézières, located on the borders of Aiglemont and Saint-Laurent, which shelters more than a hundred animals representative of the Ardennes fauna - wild boars, stags, roe deers, hinds, fallow deers... - which evolve there in semi-liberty. And to finish, take a walk in the national nature reserve of the Pointe de Givet, in the north of the department, more than 354 hectares of forests, moors, dry grasslands and rocky escarpments (steep cliffs, scree, cave entrances).

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When to go to the Ardennes? All year round you can hike and cycle along the marked hiking and mountain bike trails that make the ridges of the Pre-Ardennes the "hiking" destination of the Ardennes. Visit the museums of Rimbaud, Verlaine and Diderot. From October 1st to January 1st you will hunt wild boar in a hunt. During the fishing season, you will titillate the fish on nearly 250 hectares of water bodies. From June 15 to September 15, swim and relax on the fine sandy beach of Lac des Vieille-Forges.

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The climate of the department is considered as degraded continental in the north because it rains a lot in autumn and frosts are frequent in winter. The rest of the Ardennes is under the influence of a degraded oceanic or temperate continental climate with cold winters, hot summers, less precipitation in the plains and little wind. The average temperature is 2°C in January and 20°C in July.

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