Regional guide
Nord-Pas-de-Calais
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Ideas to get you started
Available guides: 2
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A selection of city guides to help you choose your base.
Calais
Calais occupies a strategic position facing England and the routes towards northern Europe. Centuries of conflict, cross-Channel contact and industrial development have left a city of civic monuments,…
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Lille
Lille’s architecture records a long and complicated history. Before becoming French, the city belonged at different times to the County of Flanders, the Burgundian states, the Holy Roman Empire and th…
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Places to Visit in Nord-Pas-de-Calais
This regional directory brings together the destination pages available for Nord-Pas-de-Calais. The material is divided between Nord and Pas-de-Calais, with Lille listed under Nord and Calais under Pas-de-Calais.
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Choose one of the two departments to move from the regional overview to its local listings.
- Nord, for the directory route that continues to Lille.
- Pas-de-Calais, for the directory route that continues to Calais.
Finding the city pages
Lille and Calais are not presented as separate branches at this regional level. Their pages sit below their respective departments, so begin with Nord for Lille or Pas-de-Calais for Calais. This arrangement keeps each city within its department as readers move through the directory.
Use the links above as the starting points for either city. The department pages provide the next step towards the entries named in the regional index.
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