Visits

Located in the Saint-Pierre disctrict, the historic centre of the lace industry in Calais, the City of Lace and Fashion is set 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

The Calais Museum of Fine Arts across from Richelieu Park is the work of architect Paul Pamart. Its bright and clear spaces bring together on two leve...

Rue Richelieu
62100

It was the heart of medieval Calais, damaged during the last war, and still houses a twiceweekly market. A statue of Charles and Yvonne De Gaulle-Vend...

Place d'Armes
62100

The Monument des Sauveteurs. The original monument was built in 1791 to commemorate the sacrifice made by Calais citizens Gavet and Mareschal, who per...

Quai Delpierre
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

Located in the heart of the city, the present city hall was designed by architect Louis Debrouwer, who pioneered the use of reinforced c oncrete. Its...

Place du Soldat Inconnu
62100

After his victory at Crécy (26 August 1346), Edward III of England patiently laid siege to the city of Calais so as to starve the population into subm...

Place du Soldat Inconnu
62100

A rivulet called the Hames, fordable at low tide, used to flow here after passing through a gap in a pebble bank. The site was called “Neuna Cove”. A...

Avenue Roger Salengro
62100

Just two centuries ago, in the early afternoon of Sunday 24 April 1814, King Louis 18t,h having sailed across from Dover, disembarked from the Royal S...

boulevard des Alliés
62100

Located in the Courgain Maritime district, the 58-metre-high lighthouse towers over the city. Repeated shipwrecks near the coast led the maritime auth...

Boulevard des Alliés
62100

The World War II Museum (Musée de Mémoire 39-45), located in the heart of the city in an authentic blockhouse of the Kriegsmarine (German War Navy), w...

Parc St-Pierre
62100