Discover a city fashioned by the "liqueur of the Gods" and those who live for it.
" The Share of the Angels in the making of Cognac, do you know what it is ?"


La grande et la petite histoire : Des thèmes variés…
The Port of Cognac and the Charente, the gabares, the salt trade,
The history of viticulture in the region, the « involuntary » invention of eau de vie,
The wine, Pineau des Charentes,
The architecture of the church of St Léger, Catholics and Protestants in the region : a beneficent emigration of cognac,
Jean Monnet, the founding father of Europe and son of a wine merchant in Cognac,
The economic significance of cognac in the region,
The Public Gardens of the city, its design by the famous landscape artist, Édouard André,
The old city during the Middle Ages,
The salamander, emblem of François the First,
The Château of François the First, saved by cognac,
The aging of cognac.


To help reveal her treasures and share her secrets : these interviews…
Patrice AUGER, captain of the gabare « Dame Jeanne », speaks of his boat.
Laurence CHESNEAU-DUPIN, Curator, on the Cognac Museum of Art.
Alain BODIN, viticulturalist, evokes powerful moments in viticulture and distilling cognac.
Baptiste LOISEAU, Experimental Engineer and Œnologue at BNIC presents the "Guide to Reasoned Viticulture in the Charentes".
Michel Casavecchia has mastered the secrets of the aging and blending of Cognac, he is the Cellar Master of “Otard”



7 stages to discover and hear history…and its stories.
Commentaries read by actors with re-enactments, interviews, music…
Each Stage is a complete audio production of 3 to 4 minutes.
Audio directions guide you along the circuit on foot and from one stage to the next.