Discovering pas-de-calais

Calais is also a town of culture. In attest paintings, sculptures, drawings and watercolours of its Museum of the Art schools and Lace. Calais is also a musical city whose National School of Music and Dance is the most beautiful calling card. With its complex "Calypso" Calais has a room of spectacle of 6000 places which comes to reinforce the permanent animation suggested by the Arts centre Gerard Philipe.

To see:

• Church of Notre Dame
• Lighthouse and its small museum
• Citadel and Fort Nieulay
• International City of Lace and Fashion
• Museum of Modern Art
• War Museum

Located in the middle of the Coast of Opal, between Berck on Sea and Touquet, Merlimont, charming family seaside resort, combines with masterliness, art to learn and surprise. By keeping the discrete charms of its authenticity, Merlimont plays the chart of the development by integrating a dynamics as regards animations, of equipment and management of natural spaces. Merlimont extends on 2149 hectares and account 2606 inhabitants with 3487 second homes distributed on two sites: "The Beach" and the "Village".

Equihen-beach is a town of 2943 inhabitants. On a surface of 381 hectares it offers a pleasant framework in edge of the English Channel. Declared common on April 4, 1939, Equihen-Beach has equipment of quality today with the service of the population. Here all is made for the safeguarding of the exceptional site. "The wild girl of the sea" keeps and preserves jealously her maritime frontage Small fishing port until the beginning of the century, Equihen-Beach became common in April 1939. Its history is closely related to that of fishing. The maritime landscape preserved all its beauty and its charm. Rene Bazin in his novel "Gingolph the abandoned one" extremely well described the picturesque one of Equihen-Beach which is enorgueilli to be the stay of predilection for the artists and the painters: Caffier attended it at the beginning of the century, Gil Franco lived there, Chintreuil, Debrasse, Demizel, De Palézieux also worked and remained with Equihen-Beach without forgetting Jean-Charles Cazin the painter of Bolted par excellence. The town hall of recent construction and the Saint-Pierre church contain several tables of these artists. Equihen-beach knew to rebound, offering today the image of a modern city but near of the past which you will take pleasure to discover.

Discover the charms of this rural, hilly and green area: amusement park for small and large, stroll bucolic, firm of discovered for the family, circuit any ground, cyclo routes for the sportsmen, inheritance, excursion accompanied for the curious ones.

On beaches unrolled on 3.500 meters of fine sand, with the foot of the hills of Bolted, the Baie éco-territory of Canche - Mount Saint-Frieux, birthplace of the Academy of littoral space and the lake shores, is tested, in the course of the years, with the whole satisfaction of your desires shared between pleasures of the sea and sand... hike, equestrian or practical cyclist... of the tanks with veil, speed-sail and parapente...