Cellier St-Pierre

Troyes


A fine place to purchase bubbly and Aube wines such as rosé des Riceys. The cellar has been used since 1840 to distil Prunelle de Troyes, a 40% liqueur made with sloe (blackthorn fruit) that’s great on ice cream. The modest production facilities, which you can visit, are often fired up on Friday and Saturday mornings.


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Nearby Troyes attractions

1. Cathédrale St-Pierre et St-Paul

0.06 MILES

All at once imposing and delicate with its filigree stonework, Troyes' cathedral is a stellar example of champenoise Gothic architecture. The flamboyant…

2. Hôtel du Chaudron

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One of the founders of the Canadian city of Montréal, Paul Chomeday de Maisonneuve (1612–76), once lived in the Hôtel du Chaudron.

3. Musée d’Art Moderne

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Housed in a 16th- to 18th-century bishop’s palace, this place owes its existence to all those crocodile-logo shirts, whose global success allowed Lacoste…

4. La Cité du Vitrail

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Housed in the barn of the 18th-century Hôtel-Dieu-le-Comte, this free museum dazzles with 25 works of stained glass reaching from the 12th to the 21st…

6. Basilique St-Urbain

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Begun in 1262 by the Troyes-born Pope Urban IV, whose father’s shoemaker shop once stood on this spot, this church is exuberantly Gothic both inside and…

7. WWII Memorial

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This memorial pays homage to those who fought and died in WWII.

8. 16th-Century Troyes

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Half-timbered houses – some with lurching walls and floors that aren’t quite level – line many streets in the old city, rebuilt after a devastating fire…