Architecture
  If woods are typical of the Champagne wetlands, so are the half timbered buildings which provide an essential part of the quality of the landscape in the Park and attract tourists. These traditional structure were made with locally available materials . So the architecture shares an identity with the landscape of which it is a part. One can appreciate, for example, the C18th water mill (situated close to the Forêt d' Orient Ecomuseum) in Brienne - La - Vielle, or the church of Saint -Quentin at Mathaux, the wooden covered markets at Piney, Lesmont and Brienne - Le - Château, and the architectural diversity in the streets of certain villages where houses in stone, half timbered with wattle and daub, half timbered with bricks stand out at, for example, Montreuil - sur - Barse and Chauffour - Les - Bailly.
     
Stone or brick also played an important role according to the type of building and is a witness of the region and its history. Brick, was specially reserved for noble and ecclesiastical buildings in the C16th .Its use spread in the C18th and it supplanted definitively wood in the second half of the C19th. To preserve this architectural heritage, the Park has created several missions:
- individuals and local administration can consult an architectural advisor,
- subsidies for communes for the restoration of facades and roofs in conformity with traditional architecture,
- subsidies for communes in the Park for environmental improvement and, the restoration of buildings.
 
 
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