Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin Remarkable as a landscape shaped over three centuries of coal extraction from the 1700s to the 1900s, the site consists of 109 separate components over 120,000 ha.

As I sipped a glass of chilled white, the 31°C heat simmered into dusk on the River Somme and garlic drifted from tables at Le Quai.Lingering in Amiens’ watery Saint-Leu district, my mother and I ...

4. Montreuil Pas de Calais Population: 1,900 Hill-topping Montreuil is better than we deserve, barely 60 minutes from the Channel.

Tourist sites: cathedrals of Amiens, Beauvais, Laon, Soissons, Abbeville, Saint-Omer; belfries of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and the Somme; citadels of Arras, Lille, Amiens and Montreuil; coalfields; castles ...