Le Centre of Épernay is laid out around the avenue de Champagne, the shopping streets, the town hall and its park, and the station, a few minutes' walk from the avenue. It is the historic, shopping and heritage heart of the town, where the champagne houses, the cellars dug into the chalk and the life of the town centre are concentrated.
The avenue de Champagne, lined with private mansions and nineteenth-century champagne houses - Moët & Chandon, Mercier, Perrier-Jouët -, is the symbol of Épernay. The slopes, houses and cellars of Champagne have been on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 2015. The district mixes older buildings, town houses and more recent blocks, around the shops, the station and the ramparts that once bordered the old town.
On the market, Le Centre is the most highly rated area of Épernay. The closeness of the avenue de Champagne, the station and the shops, the scarcity of the older building stock and the local activity support prices at the top of the town band, carried by town-centre demand.
