Hôtel de Vauluisant

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This haunted-looking, Renaissance-style mansion shelters a twinset of unique museums. The Musée de l’Art Champenois is a repository for the evocative paintings, stained glass and statuary (stone and wood) of the Troyes School, which flourished here during the economic prosperity and artistic ferment of the early 16th century. The Musée de la Bonneterie (Hosiery Museum) showcases the sock-strewn story of Troyes’ 19th-century knitting industry, with exhibits from knitting machines and looms to bonnets and embroidered silk stockings.

Plants used to make dyes and oil paints in the Middle Ages grow in the courtyard.

Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

  • Troyes

    16th-Century Troyes

    0.18 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…

  • Cathédrale St-Pierre et St-Paul

    Cathédrale St-Pierre et St-Paul

    0.63 MILES

    All at once imposing and delicate with its filigree stonework, Troyes' cathedral is a stellar example of champenoise Gothic architecture. The flamboyant…

  • Musée d’Art Moderne

    Musée d’Art Moderne

    0.63 MILES

    Housed in a 16th- to 18th-century bishop’s palace, this place owes its existence to all those crocodile-logo shirts, whose global success allowed Lacoste…

  • Église Ste-Madeleine

    Église Ste-Madeleine

    0.23 MILES

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

  • Ruelle des Chats

    Ruelle des Chats

    0.18 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…

  • Atelier Renoir

    Atelier Renoir

    27.06 MILES

    The Atelier Renoir has displays zooming in on the hallmarks of Renoir’s work (the female form, the vibrant use of colour and light), alongside original…

  • Basilique St-Urbain

    Basilique St-Urbain

    0.35 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…

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Nearby Troyes attractions

1. Église St-Pantaléon

0.03 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…

3. Ruelle des Chats

0.18 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…

4. 16th-Century Troyes

0.18 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…

5. Église Ste-Madeleine

0.23 MILES

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

6. Monument aux Enfants de l'Aube

0.26 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.

7. WWII Memorial

0.34 MILES

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

8. Basilique St-Urbain

0.35 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…

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