MAJOR EVENTS - Holidays and Weekends in Nord-Pas de Calais

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An international gathering of kites, 2,000 motorcyclists labouring across the sand, an adventure film festival, a musical rendez-vous on the coast, the legendary Paris-Roubaix cycle race.

In terms of cultural and sporting events, the region is like a crazy inventory by the French poet Jacques Prévert (1900-1977).

Everything is an excuse for going out, and if you haven’t got an excuse, invent one!

Because folks round here have a real taste for partying, really!

Where comradeship knocks down social barriers and removes masks. Wild carnivals, gigantic flea markets, processions of 10-metre tall giants!

All these public festivities reflect the vitality and warmth of a region that awaits you with open arms.

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	DUNKERQUE CARNIVAL - From 01/12/2008 au 03/02/2008 Carnivals throughout the world have a religious character, limited to the end of Lent. Not here, or at least not very much, where there are hundreds of them throughout the year.The most famous, the.... [+]

	ENDUROPALE IN TOUQUET-PARIS-PLAGE - From 03/02/2008 to 03/02/2008 We are eagerly looking forward to Europale, which will replace the previous unenvironmental Enduro. A successful gamble for the new French motorised event.Specially-equipped sand bikes and quads set.... [+]

PARIS-ROUBAIX CYCLE RACE - 04/13/2008 The Hell of the North … it was the end of the First World War, in a landscape ravaged by bombings and trenches, with hardened cyclists pedalling through the middle of it. The expression stuck and was... [+]

	LILLE FLEA MARKET - From 09/06/2007 to 09/07/2007 It’s Europe’s biggest event at the beginning of autumn. 2 million stallholders, barges, onlookers, bargain hunters of all kinds; young, old, children, families, all come together for two days and nig... [+]

	THE CUCURBITADES IN MARCHIENNES - October 2008 Another carnival !This time with witches. Up to the end of the occupation by the Holy Roman Empire, the butchers of the Inquisition soaked almost every corner of our rebellious lands in blood.Marchie... [+]

	THE HERRING-KING FESTIVAL IN ETAPLES - November 2008 They must be pretty strange these thousands of people who feast around braziers, in the middle of November, on the quaysides of Etaples harbour. Well, the weather’s not as cold here as in the south..... [+]

	EXHIBITION - BATTLE OF ENGLAND
From 5/8/2008 to 5/7/2009

	EXHIBITION - JACQUES DAMVILLE
From 5/24/2008 to 12/31/2008

	EXHIBITION - "CESAR DOMELA ET L'ART DU BAS RELIEF"
From 6/27/2008 to 12/31/2008

Relaxing break at the Hôtel du Golf

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