Chaumont - Mairie

Chaumont (pop. ~ 22.000) is located in the centre of Haute Marne.

Peasants and artisans settled around an early existing fortified motte and so started the development of Chaumont, owned since the 12th century by the Counts of Champagne.


Many people know the impressive Viaduc de Chaumont ("Chaumont viaduct"), 52 m high and 600 m long, constructed 1855-1856. But the town has as well a nice city hall, built in the 1920s.