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| Aube department | |
| Capital | Troyes |
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| Residents | 310.020 (2018) |
| surface | 6,004 km² |
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Aube is a french Department in the region Champagne-Ardenne with serial number 10. The département in the north to the département Marne, in the east Haute-Marne, in the southeast Côte-d'Or, in the southwest Yonne and in the northwest Seine-et-Marne.
Landscapes and Administration
- Almost the entire department is covered by the plains Champagne crayeuse and Champagne humide taken.
- The relief is only livelier in the south, in the pays d'Othe and the Cote des bars.
- The landscapes are open and criss-crossed by forests, limestone plateaus or agricultural lowlands.
- The Aube and its tributaries cross the department from southeast to northwest.
3 arrondissements with 33 cantons and 433 communes:
- Troyes - 217 448 Ew.
- Nogent-sur-Seine - 52 683 Ew.
- Bar-sur-Aube - 31 257 Ew.
places
Street scene in Troyes
- Troyes is prefecture (administrative seat) of the department - 62 612 Ew.
- Romilly-sur-Seine - 15 004 Ew.
- La Chapelle-Saint-Luc - 14 628 Ew.
- Saint-André-les-Vergers - 11 297 Ew.
- Sainte-Savine - 10 531 Ew.
- Saint-Julien-les-Villas - 6 544 Ew.
- Bar-sur-Aube - 6 519 Ew.
- Nogent-sur-Seine - 6 073 Ew.
background
language
getting there
mobility
Tourist Attractions
- PNR de la Forêt d'Orient - reaches from France above Luxembourg and Belgium until after Germany in the Eifel. The word Ardennes comes from the Celtic and means "Hill".
- Brienne-le-Château - ...
- abbaye de Clairvaux - ...
- Troyes - ...
activities
kitchen
- andouille et andouillette de Troyes - Troyes pork and gelled pork fat sausages and pork stomach.
- Chaource - Soft cheese made from lightly salted cow's milk with a white rind
- choucroute de Brienne - Sauerkraut in champagne
- cider du pays d'Othe - Sparkling apple wine from Champagne
- fromage de Troyes - Soft cheese made from cow's milk
- mussy - Soft cheese made from cow's milk from Mussy-sur-Seine
- saumon d'Eguebaude - Salmon
- Soumaintrain - Cow's milk cheese matured in brine
- truite d'Eguebaude - Trout
nightlife
security
climate
literature
- Charles-Henri de Bossieu, Yves Garnier, Philippe Lacrouts (Ed.): Atlas départemental de la France. Larousse, 2004, ISBN 2-03-505448-6 ; 288 pages.
