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Places to visit in
Cambrai:
Museum
of Fine Arts, Cambrai
- 16th-18th cent,paintings, sculpture, local history
Archéosite
- reconstructed Gallo-Roman village
Bêtises
de Cambrai -
sweet factory: tours, tastings, shop
Boat
trips -
river Escaut & Sensée valley.
Caudry
Lace museum
- factory lace for top fashion designers
Matisse
Museum - Le
Cateau-Cambresis, Matisse's birthplace
Vaucelles
Abbey -
Cistercian monastery
Near
Douai:
Historic
Mining Centre
- experience going down a mine
Belfry
and Town Hall
- hear Europe's biggest peal of bells
Chartreuse
Museum -
Douai museum & art gallery
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
St.Amand:
Spa
- water
treatment health centre
Boat
trips - on
the rivers Scarpe and Escaut
Chicory
Museum -
Orchies
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