Nord Pas-de-Calais Sightseeing, Attractions & Activities Guide

recommended places to visit and things to do in Nord Pas-de- Calais


Nausicaa

Boulogne-sur-Mer

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largest sea life centre in Europe which aims to manage marine resources and showcase them by using public awareness. Theare are 36 aquaria and 10,000 marine animals from all over the world

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  • something different!
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  • history
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  • social history

recreation of early 20th century village with shops and garage and an eclectic collection of tools and artefacts with two thirds size windmills

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  • seasonal opening
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  • nature

set in125 acres in the forest with 40 horses and ponies available for outings of different lengths, depending on the visitors ability and experience

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  • family-friendly
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  • free admission
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  • open year round
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  • nature
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  • walking

vast park located on part of the old 17th Century rampart fortifications. The old moat has been turned into a formal French garden and on the slope there is an English garden

Chateau Musée

Boulogne-sur-Mer

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  • all-weather attraction
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  • open year round
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  • guided tours
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  • antiques
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  • art
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  • ceramics
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  • history

with a wide variety of exhibits, guided tours and children's activities, set in an interesting, historic building with turrets and a castle look

  • fortress
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  • all-weather attraction
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  • seasonal opening
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  • history
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  • military history
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  • World War II

giant underground fortress, intended as site of V3 super gun until put out of action by RAF in July 1944

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  • needlecraft

built as a house in 1777 for the Viscount of Fruges. Features elegant drawing rooms, a woodcarving room with historic sculptures and tapestries

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  • history
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  • World War II

a large bunker museum that was used as a telephone exchange by the Germans during the Second World War

Todt Battery

Audinghen

  • fortress
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  • museum
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  • history
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  • military history
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  • World War II

German Atlantic Wall museum housed in former long-range gun emplacement

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  • art
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stunning collection of Calais history can be seen from sculptures and monuments, to paintings, lace and lace making

  • art gallery
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  • antiques
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  • archeology
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  • art

19th-century building housing collections of European paintings, prints, antiquities, a mediaeval and Renaissance collection, ceramics and sculptures

  • place of worship
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  • family-friendly
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  • all-weather attraction
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  • free admission
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  • architecture
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  • religion

built following eighteenth century plans after partial destruction during WWl, the cathedral retains its atmosphere of serenity and luminosity

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with exhibits from the town's history covering ancient finds, medieval paintings and sculpture, tapestries and with a diverse programme of modern art

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featuring a great collection of fine arts and lace making and examples, giving an insight into the town's development from the nineteenth century onwards

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  • free admission
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spectacular example of Gothic architecture, surviving over 800 years of wars and revolutions. 'Descent from the Cross' by Rubens is here as well as an historic astrolabe clock and much fine sculpture

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  • geology
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  • nature

Located in the former university district, this museum offers a journey through time and across the continents.

Basilique Notre-Dame

Boulogne-sur-Mer

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  • all-weather attraction
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  • free admission
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  • open year round
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re-built in the nineteenth Century and has been wonderfully preserved ,with a powerful Corinthian colonnade inside

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the most beautiful religious building in the region, dating from the thirteenth century

  • place of worship
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  • free admission
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  • architecture
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  • religion

much restored in the nineteenth century, but with fragments of the Holy Taper, a miraculous candle entrusted by the Virgin Mary to two minstrels to cure poisoning in the 12th century are kept here

  • museum
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  • history
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  • military history
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  • World War II

containing over 2000 exhibits , including ancient weapons, but it is mainly devoted to the two World Wards with scenes recreating the fighting that took place throughout the Artois region

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