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Water, a small supermarket and benches - the ideal place for a break!

Water...

Watch for herons along the way. This one allowed me time to line it up with the mirror of the spire.

The Trans-Ardennes Greenway follows the old towpath along the Meuse. As you leave Lumes, you pass under the railway bridge, then the motorway, before entering quieter lands.

Illuminated asphalt track along the canal through the mountain

Le Chesne is located on the watershed of the Aisne and Meuse basins, on a passage to the Argonne, the "Défilé du Chesne-Populeux". In the église Saint Jacques (13th-15th century) with a square tower there is a marble statue of Saint Bernard in bishop's robes (16th century) from the Abbaye du Mont-Dieu.

High above the village with its old market hall and Ardennes houses from the 16th and 18th centuries stands the Eglise Saint-Sulpice (12th century), a textbook example of the regional Romanesque architectural style with the floor plan of a basilica and a roof structure visible above the nave. The aisles, the choir and the transept with crossbow vault date from the 13th century. The 16th-century high altar comes from the Carthusian monastery of Mont-Dieu.

Here begins the Canal des Ardennes, which connects the Meuse with the Aisne and the waterways of the Seine basin; the 106 km long canal was built during the time of King Louis Philippe (second quarter of the 19th century) and has 46 locks between Pont-à-Bar and Berry-au-Bac in the southwest.