page_title: Ardennes (department)
section_title: Tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Ardennes (department) / Tourism
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: La boucle de la Meuse à Monthermé dans les Ardennes françaises (Parc naturel régional des Ardennes)
context_page_description: Ardennes is a department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France named after the broader Ardennes.
  Its prefecture is the town Charleville-Mézières. The inhabitants of the department are known as Ardennais or Ardennaises.
context_section_description: In the department there are iconic landmarks that attract many visitors each year, such as the Château de Sedan (the busiest paying attraction in the Ardennes, with an average of 60,000 admissions per year), the fortified site of Charlemont at Givet, the fort at Les Ayvelles, and the fortress of Rocroi. There are also many fortified churches and medieval sites in the department. There is the Ardennes forest, the "Green Way" (a bicycle path connecting Montcy-Notre Dame near Charleville-Mézières to Givet along the Meuse valley) promoting weekend tourism and tourist routes (green tourism).
  Cultural tourism is booming with many music festivals (Le Cabaret Vert, the Douzy'k festival, the Aymon Folk Festival) not to mention museums (such as the Museum of the Ardennes) and castles and the growing interest in industrial heritage.
  Finally, the creation of the Natural Regional Park of Ardennes (Regional Natural Park of Ardennes) on 21 December 2011 should continue to increase this type of tourism.
caption: Monthermé along the Meuse
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