Places to visit
Camping Mandre is ideally located a few kilometres from Verdun and the WWI battlefields.
Verdun
Underground Citadel of Verdun
Carved into the Vauban ramparts and visited by miniature train. Retraces the life of soldiers during WWI. The site where the Unknown Soldier was selected.
📍 Avenue du 5ème RAP, 55100 Verdun📞 +33 3 29 84 84 42
Website →Notre-Dame Cathedral of Verdun
Built in 990 and listed as a historic monument in 1906. Romanesque architecture with a flamboyant Gothic cloister.
📍 7 Place Mgr Ginisty, 55100 Verdun📞 +33 3 29 86 07 68
Episcopal Palace — World Peace Centre
Historic monument since 1920, built between 1724 and 1763. Home to the World Centre for Peace, Freedoms and Human Rights.
📍 7 Place Mgr Ginisty, 55100 Verdun📞 +33 3 29 86 55 00
Website →Douaumont
Fort de Douaumont
Built 1885–1913, the largest and most accessible fort in the Verdun area. A key strategic position during the Battle of Verdun.
📍 55100 Douaumont📞 +33 3 29 84 41 91
Website →Douaumont Ossuary
Built 1920–1927, it holds the remains of 130,000 unknown French and German soldiers. Adjacent cemetery: 16,142 individual graves.
📍 55100 Douaumont📞 +33 3 29 84 54 81
Website →Trench of the Bayonets
Mythical site of the Battle of Verdun. On 11 June 1916, 57 men were buried alive by a shell explosion, bayonets pointing skyward.
📍 D913, 55100 Douaumont📞 +33 3 29 85 41 52
Fort de Vaux
Built 1881–1884, a symbol of French heroism. Commander Raynal's courageous defence became legendary during the Battle of Verdun.
📍 Fort de Vaux, 55400 Vaux-devant-Damloup Website →Further afield
- →The Saint-Mihiel Salient
- →Les Éparges
- →Butte de Vauquois
- →Romagne-sous-Montfaucon — largest American cemetery in Europe
- →Ligier Richier trail (Renaissance sculptor, Bar-le-Duc)
- →Marville cemetery (funerary art)
- →Braquier sugared almonds factory (Verdun)
- →The Madeleine cake of Commercy