Parc du Mont Olympe

Just a stone's throw from the Piazza Ducale, on 14 hectares, the site of Mount Olympus is a space conducive to relaxation, leisure and tourism. It offers many facilities such as a nautical base, an aquatic centre, playgrounds, a marina, a municipal campsite and a park accessible to walkers. Overlooking the plain of the same name, the Mont Olympe park is accessible by the footbridge behind the Vieux Moulin or Rimbaud Museum.Its paths lead to the top of this hill which, before the foundation of Charleville in the 17th century, was called the Chastelet hill because of the ancient Roman oppidum that protected the ancient Gallo-Roman city of Castrice. Charles de Gonzague built a small fortress there to protect his new town and its port, which was razed to the ground at the end of the century at the wish of Louis XIV. The remains of an ancient belvedere tower, or Lolot tower, named after the rich iron industrialist who owned a private park there, can still be found on its heights. This park was bought by the city in 1927 to make it a park open to the public. For generations, it became the place to go for a walk for lovers. Another point of interest, at the foot of this park and in certain places: numerous outcrops of purple schist which prove that the famous Ardennes massif begins here.

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