Paris residents looking for a break from big city life can from this Friday onwards visit France’s newest parc national on the Burgundy-Champagne border. Dubbed the Parc National des forets de Champagne et Bourgogne, it covers 250,000 hectares and encompasses 127 communes which are home to 28,000 residents. There are also black storks, deer, wild boar, deer and wild cats roaming the park. Outdoor sport aficionados will be able to enjoy 2,000 km of hiking trails and 700 km of rivers for kayaking and other water sports. "Eighty percent of the trees here already were there at the time of the French Revolution," Parmentier added.

Source: The Local November 07, 2019 13:19 UTC