Discover bourbourg city

Topic	Sciences and discovery
Departure	BOURBOURG (59)
Details	Bourbourg, chief town of canton, counts 6979 inhabitants (Bourbourgeois). The commune has a surface of 3850 hectares, including 250 urban influence. It preserved in centre town a radioconcentric provision and certain narrow gauge railways, inherited the Middle Ages, which give him a particular seal.

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Inheritance in Bourbourg

On the way of the Retables, built in XIII century, altered until the XVIII century, it was burnt in 1940. The restoration is in hand and one can admire the three naves and the bell-tower with skylight with his chime of 37 bells.

You currently restore the Gothic chorus of XIII century. You enter the church by a gate of XIV, surmounted from a high window, the Western gate s' opening under a beautiful trefoil arch of XIII century.

You will be able to admire " The Mounting of Notre Dame de Bourbourg " , reliquary end XV century, classified on December 29, 1906.

There exists in Bourbourg the association of the friends of St Jean-Baptiste.

Accommodation nearby

Brit Hôtel le Polder

Gravelines
03 28 23 90 90

Brit Hôtel le Polder

Gravelines
03 28 51 88 95

Ibis Calais Car Ferry

Calais
03 21 96 69 69

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Najeti Hôtel du Golf de Saint Omer

Acquin-westbecourt
03 21 11 42 42

Tour of Quaethove

This tour of 9 kms will make you discover the pretty town of Bourbourg and will take you along through the countryside and of its hamlets on the road of the water gangs and drainage works.

Duration: 2:30 with 3:00

Accommodation nearby

Brit Hôtel le Polder

Gravelines
03 28 23 90 90

Brit Hôtel le Polder

Gravelines
03 28 51 88 95

Ibis Calais Car Ferry

Calais
03 21 96 69 69

Najeti Hôtel du Golf de Saint Omer

Acquin-westbecourt
03 21 11 42 42

Tour from yesterday to tomorrow

Few grazing grounds constantly covered by the sea, intersected with the arms of the Aa, with the star of Vauban côtoyant the infrastructures turned towards the future: the walk takes you along for ten centuries d' history. excursion: from 9 km 600

Duration: 2:00 with 3:00

Beaconing: Green

Departure: Quay Vauban Road of the Icelanders

Accommodation nearby

Brit Hôtel le Polder

Gravelines
03 28 51 88 95

Brit Hôtel le Polder

Gravelines
03 28 23 90 90

Ibis Calais Car Ferry

Calais
03 21 96 69 69

Najeti Hôtel du Golf de Saint Omer

Acquin-westbecourt
03 21 11 42 42

The garden of the freedom

Opened in the summer from 10:00 to 20:00 and the winter from 10:00 to 17:00, the garden of freedom is a place not to be missed.

For resting here, reflecting, reading in the shadow of the kiosk or on a bench. The calme and the beauty is really preserved there.

Built on the traces of an old garden of priest of the XIX century, the garden of freedom shelters a beech old crimson 150 years.

Accommodation nearby

Brit Hôtel le Polder

Gravelines
03 28 51 88 95

Brit Hôtel le Polder

Gravelines
03 28 23 90 90

Ibis Calais Car Ferry

Calais
03 21 96 69 69

Najeti Hôtel du Golf de Saint Omer

Acquin-westbecourt
03 21 11 42 42

The garden of the Poudrière

This garden shelters the Body of Guard of the Explosives magazine dating from the XVII century has l' time, this small store in powder, called pigeon, supplied the soldiers closest to their station of monitoring. It includes a principal part which could preserve 170 powder barrels, a hay loft and a cellar.

Today, this Body of Guard is used as as place of the exposure.

In the medieval type, this garden shelters culinary plants of the boxwood cut in vats in braided hazel trees.