WWII Memorial

Troyes


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


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Nearby Troyes attractions

1. Église Ste-Madeleine

0.11 MILES

Troyes’ oldest and most interesting neighbourhood church has an early Gothic nave and transept and a Renaissance-style choir and tower. The highlights…

2. Ruelle des Chats

0.16 MILES

Off rue Champeaux (between Nos 30 and 32), a stroll along tiny ruelle des Chats (Alley of the Cats), as dark and narrow as it was four centuries ago – the…

3. 16th-Century Troyes

0.17 MILES

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…

4. Basilique St-Urbain

0.2 MILES

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…

6. La Cité du Vitrail

0.29 MILES

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…

7. Monument aux Enfants de l'Aube

0.31 MILES

Erected in 1890, this flag-bedecked memorial, topped by a fleeing woman and child, pays tribute to those who died in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.

8. Église St-Pantaléon

0.32 MILES

Faded with age and all the more enigmatic for it, this Renaissance-style, cruciform church, with its barrel-vaulted wood ceiling, is a great place to see…