Nearest airport:
Luxembourg at 70 Kilometres
Nearest ferry:
Calais at 400 Kilometres
Nearest train:
Montmedy at 14 Kilometres
Nearest motorway:
Verdun at 40 Kilometres
Car:
recommended
Stenay is located at the northern side of the brutal battlegrounds of the First World War: Verdun, Morthommes and Argonne. After 80 years the forests and fields are still recognized as battlefield due to the trenches and craters. State-owned forests, tunnels, campsites and fortifications show now days the life of the soldiers whose bodies are buried on the numerous fields of honour. From Stenay you visit: the crown prince's bunker in the Argonne forest, the Kaiser's Tunnel, with a lenght of 425 meter, the largest American cemetry in Europe in Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, the remains of the shell and mortar battle of Vanquois, Douaumont, the frech field of honour and osuarium, villages annihilated, villages in memoriam, Verdun and battlefields, and the german campsite at Azannes.