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Lille, Flanders & the Somme

Hauts-de-France (Upper France) is one of the country's least heralded regions, but with dramatic land and sea views, deeply rooted culture, culinary traditions that include freshly caught seafood, age-old Flemish recipes and locally brewed beers, it competes with the best France has to offer.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • Amiens Cathedrale Notre Dame

    Cathédrale Notre Dame

    Amiens

    A Unesco World Heritage Site, the largest Gothic cathedral in France (at 145m long) and the largest in the world by volume was begun in 1220 to house the…

  • Palais de Compiègne

    Palais de Compiègne

    Lille, Flanders & the Somme

    This 1337-room palace, originally built for Louis XV, hosted Napoléon III's dazzling hunting parties, which drew aristocrats from all around Europe. A…

  • Historial de la Grande Guerre

    Historial de la Grande Guerre

    Lille, Flanders & the Somme

    For historical and cultural context, the best place to begin a visit to the Somme battlefields is the outstanding Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne…

  • Cathédrale Notre Dame

    Cathédrale Notre Dame

    Lille, Flanders & the Somme

    A model for several of its more famous Gothic sisters – Chartres, Reims, Dijon and Paris' Notre-Dame among them – this medieval jewel was built between…

  • Palais des Beaux Arts

    Palais des Beaux Arts

    Lille

    Inaugurated in 1892, Lille's illustrious Fine Arts Museum claims France's second-largest collection after Paris' Musée du Louvre. Its cache of sublime…

  • La Cité Souterraine de Naours

    La Cité Souterraine de Naours

    Lille, Flanders & the Somme

    Believed to date from the 3rd century AD, this extraordinary underground 'city' of quarried tunnels was started by the Romans and expanded over the…

  • Grand' Place & Place des Héros

    Grand' Place & Place des Héros

    Arras

    Arras' two ancient market squares, the Grand' Place and the almost-adjacent, smaller place des Héros (also known as the Petite Place), are surrounded by…

  • Ring of Remembrance

    Ring of Remembrance

    Lille, Flanders & the Somme

    It's hard not to be overwhelmed by the waste and folly of the Western Front as you walk past panel after panel engraved with 579,606 tiny names: WWI dead…

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