A protected line of wild sand dunes and long beaches between Dunkirk and the Belgian border, among the oldest dunes in France. Paths cross the Dune Marchand and Dune du Perroquet nature reserves, rich in rare plants and natterjack toads.
The beaches at Bray-Dunes and Zuydcoote saw the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940; wrecks still appear at low tide.
Two great headlands on the Opal Coast facing England across the narrowest part of the Channel: the white chalk cliffs of Blanc-Nez and the grey rocks…
A modernist mansion built in 1932 by Robert Mallet-Stevens for a textile industrialist, with sleek yellow brick walls, a long mirror pool and every d…
A huge tidal bay of sandflats and salt marshes, one of the most beautiful in the world, home to France's largest colony of seals.
The largest Gothic cathedral in France, built in the 13th century, with a nave so vast that two Notre-Dames of Paris would fit inside.
The ruins of one of the mightiest castles of the Middle Ages, built in the 13th century by the powerful lords of Coucy, on a spur above the Ailette v…
A fairytale castle with towers, battlements and a drawbridge, rebuilt from medieval ruins in the 1860s by the architect Viollet-le-Duc for Napoleon I…
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