Hauts-de-France - 57 Attractions You Must Visit

Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse is an institution founded in 1237 by Johanna of Constantinople in Lille. The hospice was subsequently used as a home for the elderly, a function it retained until 1939. After serving as a depot, it was set up as a museum from 1962, with an emphasis on the history of the city and the hospital itself. The hospice is home to a museum and also a venue for exhibitions and concerts.

The museum of the Sandelin hotel is a museum in the city of Saint-Omer. It is both a museum of fine arts and a museum of the history of the city. It is installed since 1904 in a beautiful mansion of the xviii th century. Part of it was classified as a historical monument in 1955 and another part inscribed in 1957. It has a lot of collections and also it gives information about the history of the city and so more.

The cupola of Helfaut-Wizernes, or cupola of Helfaut , is a bunker from the Second World War, today a center of history and memory, located in the town of Helfaut , near Saint-Omer. it was built by Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1944 to serve as a launch base for V2 rockets to London and the South of England.

La Piscine Museum is a museum of Roubaix that this composite collection of applied arts and fine arts made from the xix th century including fabrics, parts decorative arts, sculptures, paintings, and drawings. It is housed in an old Art Deco- style swimming pool, built between 1927 and 1932 1 by the Lille architect Albert Baert, hence its nickname "La Piscine". It also offers numerous conferences, activities to discover the five senses, courses at the École du Louvre; there is also a dedicated

La Vieille Bourse is undoubtedly one of the most prestigious monuments in the city. Located between the Grand'Place and the Place du Théâtre, it is one of the witnesses of the intense economic activity that took place in Lille during the Grand Siècle. It was classified as a historical monument in 1921 and 1923. The quadrangular building is in fact an interlocking of 24 identical residences that contain what is called the inner courtyard, a place where booksellers, florists, chess players, stroll

" ValJoly " is - in the north of France - both the name of an artificial lake of 180 hectares built shortly before 1970 and that of the nautical base and the leisure center which were built there. It was created with a dam to help regulate the flow of the Helpe Majeure, and also as a hydropower source. This place also has a collection of Flora and fauna. One of the nice locations in this area and also you can spend a nice time there.

Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine de Dunkerque is a contemporary art museum made up of a building and a sculpture garden. it preserves a very rich collection of more than 1,500 works, mirrors of the 1940s and 1980s, including Circus by Karel Appel, Car Crash by Andy Warhol or Valise Expansion by César, works presented alternately depending on the exhibition schedule. The collection is enriched with the aim of covering all contemporary creation from 1945 to the present day.

A beautiful museum which was dedicated to modern art in the Hauts-de-France region. The museum was renowned for its iconic building and also the collections of 20th and 21st century in4000 sq m exhibition space. It also has a library, workshops, education rooms, a cafe, and a remarkable sculpture park too. It gives an overview in modern and contemporary art, including drawings, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and so more.

The Louvre is a museum in Paris that has millions of visitors every year because of its art collection. It is the most popular art museum in the world. The magnificent, baroque-style palace and museum sits along the banks of the Seine River in Paris. It is one of the city's biggest tourist attractions. It has a lot of ancient collections and is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculptu

The Louvre-Lens is an art museum located in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Northern France, about 200 kilometers north of Paris. It shows objects from the collections of the Musée du Louvre on loan to the gallery on a medium or long term. The Louvre-Lens annex is part of an effort to provide access to French cultural institutions for people living outside of Paris. Although the museum maintains close institutional ties with the Louvre, it is mainly funded by the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region.

The Audomarois marshes extend over 15 municipalities in Pas-de-Calais and Nord and cover an area of ​​37 km 2, which makes it the largest wetland in the region. it was made up of approximately 13,000 plots belonging to approximately 5,000 owners. At the time, it housed 1,050 ha of wet meadows, 436 ha of market garden land, and 171 ha of reed beds. The gardens are characterized by a system of wateringues crucial for the prevention and management of floods. The reserve is also a highly valued

A huge museum which displays the paintings by Henri Matisse was located at Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France. It was established by Matisse himself on 8 November 1952. After the death of Matisse, the collection of the museum was enlarged by the gift of 65 paintings by Auguste Herbin. It displays more than 170 Matisse works, as well as 65 paintings by Auguste Herbin. Now, this museum has the third-largest collection of Matisse works in France.

The Mont Noir is a hill rising to 152 m altitudes in the mountains of Flanders a few hundred meters from the Franco-Belgian border and a few kilometers from Bailleul. It takes its name from the presence of a high concentration of black pine in the wood that covers this relief. The mountain is on the border between Belgium and France and depends on the municipality of Saint-Jans-Cappel. One of the nice location for a trek and also it gives a pamo=noramic view of this beautiful area.

The Lille Natural History Museum is a French natural history museum located rue de Bruxelles, in the historic university district of Lille. Inaugurated in 1822 in the former Hôtel de Ville in Lille, it has been located in rue de Bruxelles since 1896. First built around a first zoological collection, he joined in the early xx th century a double set of geological collections, and in 1990 two new funds thus consist aujourd 'hui four main themes: naturalist, geological, ethnographic, and industrial

The Atlantic Wall Museum is located in a 52-foot tall concrete tower in Ouistreham which served as a flak tower to protect the harbour and fire control for the batteries protecting the Orne estuary. The fortifications survive because they were built on land belonging to Prince Charles, Count of Flanders who decided that they should not be destroyed after the war but be kept as a national monument.

The Marchand dune national nature reserve is a national nature reserve located in the Hauts-de-France region. Classified in 1974, it occupies an area of 83 hectares and protects one of the dunes of Flanders. Access to the site is free by staying on the marked trails. The reception is located at the Ferme du Nord in Zuydcoote. One of the nice trekking destination and also you can find a nice time there.

The Platier d'Oye National Nature Reserve is a national nature reserve located by the sea in Pas-de-Calais. Classified in 1987, it extends over 391 ha and protects a set of coastal environments favorable to migratory avifauna. One of the outstanding location with rich biodiversity and Protected dune with lakes and tidal flats, which should give the necessary rest to many birds and other living beings.

Nausicaá, the national center of the sea, is a center for discovering the marine environment, opened in 1991 in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the north of France. With more than 600,000 visitors on average per year, it is the second most visited tourist site north of Paris after Parc Astérix. It includes aquariums of various sizes, terrariums as well as a specialized media library, information spaces, video projection rooms, conference rooms, and fun activities.

Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin is a cultural landscape that stretches across around 4,000 hectares and is full of technical and architectural treasures resulting from three centuries of coal mining which was located in Northern France. This place illustrates a significant period in the history of industrialization in Europe. It includes mining pits, lift infrastructure, slag heaps, coal transport infrastructure, railway stations, workers’ estates, and mining villages and so more and these made

A beautiful and majestic Gothic cathedral which was built in the 19th century was located in the Vieux-Lille district, on the site of a former castle mound. The church was built in honor of the Virgin Mary and takes its name from a 12th-century statue of the saint that has miraculous properties ascribed to it. It was one of the architectural wonders in this area and also it is one of the main pilgrimage centres in this area.