The water and the forest (250.000ha) hold an important place in Haute-Marne and in particular in the south Region Haut Marnaise said of 4 lakes.
It infers a fauna and a flora of big variety and quality and a quantity of possibilities of activities.
After the calcareous tray of Langres the earth makes wet and clayey and strews of ponds what returns the region convenient to the breeding.
Several streams as the Marne, the Aube and the Meuse take their source there.
Fishing
900 km of waterways are first category graded and 800 km are 2nd category graded.
Perche, brochet, sandre fishes and white fishes are allowed.
( fish card on sale at bar tabac of Rivières ) Regarding high lakes, fishermen will track down carnivores, brochets fishes, sandres fishes and carps.
Hunting
With 250 000 ha forests, on more than half of its area, considered as one of best-stocked with game of France,
Haute-Marne region is wild boars, roe deers and stags country.
Hunter, you will find in Arc-en-Barrois national forest, the largest game hunting estate of France.
Patrimony and history
Langres occupies the horizon with his ramparts marked out by twelve towers of artillery and his citadel where from emergent the towers of the cathedral Saint Mammès. She was major Lignons in the Gallo-Roman period and royal fortress then.Curiosities
Paris-Mulhouse railway line was opened on 1858. Due to topographical reasons,
Langres railway station was fixed up in Marne valley.
Town access (which is 132 meters higher) leads to create the first
rack railway with a near 17 % slope; the total lenght of the way is about 1 447 meters.
Opened on 6th November of 1887, with steam traction, electrified in 1935, the line is definitively no more operated in February 1971.
The last engine is still displayed on high station site.
The line of Chalindrey to Gray, (44,9 km) inaugurated in July, 1858, crossed Rivers the Wood by following the valley of Re-bleeds her then that of Saulon.
She is put in lease to the Society of the Economic Railroad in 1934.
In the service of winter, 1970 3 daily local trains are transferred on road. The line is not déferrée although the exploitation stopped since, further to the bad state of the breast wall of Leffond
Speleology
The cave of Coublanc (not exploited) a small karstic cavity with important resurgence situated in a feed at feet of a cliff is.
Always useful links
Walks and cycle touring
Gourmet specialities
Cutlery Museum
Natural site
Castle
Abbey
