Remembrance tourism in the Marne

The site of a number of bloody battles during the First World War, the Marne region now retains a number of major commemorative sites. The old front line is dotted with emblematic monuments and numerous cemeteries, home to the largest number of military burials of any French department, with 164,145 soldiers’ graves. Some of the most emblematic sites include the memorial

• to the two battles of the Marne at Dormans
• Fort de la Pompelle, the Navarin ossuary,
• the Blanc Mont monument to fallen American soldiers
• die amerikanische Gedenkstätte Blanc Mont und das Denkmal der ersten Marneschlacht in Mondement.