Hirondelle Trail

The Hirondelle Trail takes you through the Commonwealth cemeteries, allowing you to explore a region that was completely devastated in 1917.
The four villages you will discover along the way also bore witness to the Reconstruction and the “liberated regions” style that is reflected in the area’s rural heritage.

The villages were completely destroyed, but let’s not forget the work it took to make this shattered land suitable for farming once again: shell holes, craters, barbed wire, saps, unexploded shells, mines, trenches...
90 years on, this has become one of France’s richest, most productive cereal-growing areas!