Boulogne-sur-mer city

Prepare your stay in Boulogne-sur-Mer, one of the most beautiful detours of the Department of the Pas-de-Calais.

Near the Channel tunnel, at two hours thirty by l' A16 of Paris, in the middle of the Coast of Opal and of Bolted, Boulogne-sur-Mer will allure you by its multiple facets.

Recognized as town of Art and History, Boulogne-sur-Mer has an architectural and historical heritage very rich.

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Considered as a town of Art and History, Boulogne-sur-Mer has an architectural and historical heritage very rich. These are all these treasures that the folders of the series reveal you “Let you tell…”.

Realized by the service of the architecture and the inheritance of the city, these booklets tell the history of Boulogne, its urban evolution and its monuments.

Duration of the visit: 1:30

It is an invitation with the voyage and in time. Two thousand years of history contemplate you through the streets of the high-city:

• Medieval fortifications and their showpiece, the castle comtal surrounded by ditches
• The belfry, old keep of the first Castle of the counts de Boulogne
• The town hall and the superb room of the Governors
• The basilica Notre-Dame of Boulogne and its crypt, place of memory of the medieval building (open the afternoon except Monday)

Major witness of the architecture of the strong castles of XIII century, the castle comtal of Boulogne is the work of the count Philippe de Hurepel, wire of the king.

He was built from 1227 to 1231 with the weakest angle of the enclosure. It is the first example of a strong castle built without the traditional keep in Western Europe. Its polygonal plan privileging the turns of angle to the profit of an active defense, will make date in the medieval military architecture.

Supported on the angle of the always visible Roman rampart, the castle kept all its parts; origin in the underground, only level where one can still make the full rotation.

In this splendid building, you will admire the Gothic room of Barbière, the Vault, but also the covered way like good d' other vestiges.