{"id":7,"date":"2006-09-16T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=7"},"modified":"2006-09-16T00:00:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T14:00:25","slug":"troyes-is-not-really-shaped-like-a-champagne-cork-but-still-worth-visiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/france\/troyes-is-not-really-shaped-like-a-champagne-cork-but-still-worth-visiting","title":{"rendered":"Troyes is not really shaped like a champagne cork, but still worth visiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Troyes<\/strong>, the old political capital of Champagne, isn&#8217;t shaped like a champagne cork as far as I can see, I reckon that idea was the product of some tourist marketing man&#8217;s over-fertile imagination, but the old town is certainly worth visiting, with many 15th century buildings &#8211; some containing very 21st century restaurants&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss the medieval gardens. There are three, one in the <strong>H\u00f4tel de Vauluisant<\/strong> (XVIe) &#8211; 4 rue de Vauluisant &#8211; T\u00e9l: 03.25.42.33.33, one in the <span class=\"titreblack\"><strong>Maison de l&#8217;Outil et de la Pensee Ouvriere<\/strong>, <\/span><span class=\"txtitalictw\">H\u00f4tel de Mauroy (XVIe) &#8211; 7, rue de la Trinit\u00e9 \u2013 T\u00e9l: 03.25.73.28.26 and one somewhere else that I&#8217;ll add later, but it&#8217;s listed when you visit the other ones. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtitalictw\">They&#8217;re really like small courtyards with flower beds, but the variety of plants is interesting, and the buildings historic and worth your scrutiny. The Maison de l&#8217;Outil (House of Tools) has a huge collection of very well-used anvils and lasts &#8211; makes you think of how many years people spent working on them. The three gardens consist of one full of aromatic herbs and plants, one of herbs and plants used in cooking, and one of plants used for medicinal purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txtitalictw\">Tony Page<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PS See our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/v\/France\/Troyes\/\" title=\"photos from Troyes, France\">photos from Troyes here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troyes, the old political capital of Champagne, isn&#8217;t shaped like a champagne cork as far as I can see, I reckon that idea was the product of some tourist marketing man&#8217;s over-fertile imagination, but the old town is certainly worth visiting, with many 15th century buildings &#8211; some containing very 21st century restaurants&#8230; Don&#8217;t miss [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88,2193,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-roads-of-france","category-europe-sept-oct-2006","category-france"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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