Escalles _ Cap Blanc-Nez _ Promenade en longeant le Cran d'Escalles vers la Baie de Wissant au coucher du soleil © CRTC Hauts-de-France - Stéphane Bouilland

Pas-de-Calais Department

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A change of scenery awaits you on the Opal coast, from Calais to Le Touquet. Here, you can contemplate the endless horizon from atop soaring cliffs, walk along on one of many fine, sandy beaches dotted along this luminescent coast, including the famous Le Touquet-Paris-Plage beach. Inland, Saint-Omer offers a gentler pace aboard distinctive wooden boats or bacôves, while the mining basin is surprising and endearing. Wherever you go, the true values and essence of Haut-de-France will touch you.

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©Northern France, Hauts De France, Pas De Calais|Jean-Luc Verbrugghe

The Pas-de-Calais department’s 10 essentials

Hike between the two capes (Les Deux-Caps): Cap Blanc-Nez and Cap Gris-Nez
Bathe in the light that is so unique to the Opal coast
Indulge in the gastronomic destination of Montreuil-sur-mer
Golf in Le Touquet iconic courses “La Forêt” and “La Mer”
Take a bacôve, a traditional and distinctive wooden boat, to discover the marshes of Saint-Omer
Stroll around the 200 masterpieces in the Galerie du Temps (Gallery of Time) at Louvre-Lens
Be mesmerised by the marine show in the Nausicaá sealife centre in Boulogne-sur-mer
Ride on the back of the Calais dragon to see as far as the White Cliffs of Dover
Climb to the top of a rejuvenated miningslag heap in the Lens region
Feast on moules frites (mussels and chips), washed down with a local white beer

Northern France _ Escalles _ Cap Blanc Nez © CRTC Hauts-de-France - Eric Desaunois

Northern France _ Berck _ Authie Bay © CRTC Hauts-de-France - Stéphane Bouilland

Northern France _ Saint-Omer _ Marais Audomarois _ marshes © Studio2bis - Office de Tourisme et des Congrès du Pays de Saint-Omer

Northern France _ Haillicourt _ slag heap © CP Antoine

Northern France _ Lens _ Louvre Lens Museum © Philippe Chancel

Northern France _ Boulogne-Sur-Mer_Nausicaá aquarium © CRTC Hauts-de-France - AS Flament

Northern France _ Calais _ Dragon © CRTC Hauts-de-France - Anne-Sophie Flament

Northern France _ mussels and french fries © CRTC Hauts-de-France - AS Flament

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Drink in the vastness of the Opal coast

Audinghen _ Cap Gris-Nez - CRTC Hauts-de-France - Yann Avril

To visit the Opal coast is to breathe clean sea air, to witness wonderful marine spectacles and to bathe in the iridescent light of the opal stone that lends its name to the coastline. It’s of course also to enjoy unspoilt countryside that has inspired artists and writers through the ages, including Camille Corot and Victor Hugo.

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