Places to visit in
Arras:
Arras
Fine Arts Museum
- prestigious collection
Salle
des Mays -
gallery of 17th century religious art from Notre-Dame in
Paris
Robespierre's
house -
infamous leader of the French Revolution and the
"Terror"
Nearby:
Notre-Dame
de Lorette & la
Targette -
memorials and museums about French sacrifices defending the
line in 1915.
Vimy
Ridge -
First World War memorials
Near
Béthune:
Arbronauts
- live up in the trees!
Bruay
Mining Museum
- life underground: guided tours by old miners
Christmas
markets - a
tradition that's more popular each year
Near
Douai:
Historic
Mining Centre
- experience going down a mine at Lewarde Mining Museum
Belfry
and Town Hall
- hear Europe's biggest peal of bells
Chartreuse
Museum -
local museum & art gallery, Douai
Gayants
- Douai's town mascots, a family of giants
"Les
Gayantines" -
sweets for giants from Douai
Palais
de Justice -
historic riverside courts, start of river tour.
River
Tours -
starting from Douai
Denis
Papin Centre, Oignies
- Small mining museum & industrial railways.
Chicory
Museum -
Orchies
Near
Lens:
Lens
RC football -
stadium
Loisinord
ski and watersports resort,
year-round skiing on former coal-mine slag-heap
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