Visits

It was the heart of medieval Calais, damaged during the last war. A market is still held there twice a week, Wednesday and Saturday morning. At the fo...

Place d'Armes
62100

Located opposite the Richelieu Park, the Fine Arts Museum is the work of architect Paul Pamart. Its light and airy spaces bring together on two levels...

Rue Richelieu
62100

Located in the Saint-Pierre district, the historic lace-making heart of Calais, the City of Lace and Fashion finds its setting in an authentic collect...

135 Quai du Commerce
62100

Annexing the City Hall is the Calais Belfry, which is accessible in a lift and offers a panoramic view over the entire city and its surroundings from...

Place du Soldat inconnu
62100

In the Calais defence system, Fort Nieulay watched over the west of Calais. Originally, a small stream - the Hames River - flowed here once, after cro...

Avenue Roger Salengro
62100

Originally there was a large sandbank there. When the English arrived in 1347, following the episode of the Bourgeois de Calais, they built a tower (L...

Avenue Raymond Poincaré
62100

Two mayors of Calais have their own bust in Calais, each in his favourite district. In northern Calais - the former medieval Calais - the Courgain Mar...

Boulevard des Alliés
62100

Do you dream of reawakening the inventor that you were in your childhood? Of sharing some construction time with your little ones? Playtime is here!...

52 boulevard Jacquard
62100

Located in the heart of the city, the town hall is a building by architect Louis Debrouwer, one of the first to use reinforced concrete. Its construct...

Place du Soldat Inconnu
62100

Two centuries ago, in the early afternoon of 24 April 1814, the future King Louis XVIII disembarked from the Royal Sovereign ship, coming from Dover,...

boulevard des Alliés
62100

It is one of the first episodes of the Hundred Years' War. After his victory at Crécy (August 1346), Edward III of England led the siege of Calais, a...

Place du Soldat Inconnu
62100

It is not easy to see what the imposing bronze monument on the left of the Fort represents. It is, in fact, a winged figure, a modern version of an an...

Avenue Raymond Poincaré
62100