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This walk is a journey back in time. Starting from areas of livestock farming and crop cultivation, you’ll come across monuments and information boards along the route that recount the resistance to the German invasion during the Battle of Stonne in May 1940. You’ll journey back to the 12th century with the Chartreuse du Mont-Dieu, the forest and the estates that belonged to it, and finish the route on the Roman road that led from Reims to Trier.

Before reaching Stonne, with its highest point known as ‘le pain de sucre’, its panoramic views and its orientation table, you’ll walk through the shade of the forest. The short ‘mountainous’ section around the village can be avoided. The return route takes you across a plateau amidst meadows and fields. The village of Stonne was the scene of fierce fighting in May 1940 following the German army’s breakthrough at Sedan.