In Northern France, enjoy the trip tips : visit our land of numerous local festivals, belfries, beer, mussels, mills, giants, sand-yachts and art…The welcome is always warm and hospitable, so join us and feel at home.

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MAJOR EVENTS

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.

DUNKERQUE CARNIVAL - From 01/22/2012 to 03/10/2012 It’s not enough just to watch the Dunkerque Carnival – you have to throw yourself into it ! Famous both for bands and bedlam, Dunkerque Carnival isn’t an event - it’s an experience. Carnival... [+]

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	ENDUROPALE IN TOUQUET-PARIS-PLAGE - From 02/04/2012 to 02/05/2012 A thousand professional and amateur bikers meet for a unique international motorsport event Le Touquet will be kick-starting the motorsport season again in February with the legendary Enduropale... [+]

PARIS-ROUBAIX CYCLE RACE - April 10th 2011 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 - Sept. 3th and 4th 2011 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... [+]

	LE CHOEUR DE LUMIERE - ANTHONY CARO IN BOURBOURG Anthony Caro’s Chapel of Light at the Eglise Saint-Jean de Baptiste of Bourbourg and a major retrospective of the artist’s work in France presented simultaneously at the museums of Calais, Dunkirk... [+]

	THE CUCURBITADES IN MARCHIENNES - Oct. 1st and 2nd 2011 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 - Nov. 12th and 13th 2011 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..... [+]

	DUNKERQUE CARNIVAL
From 1/22/2012 to 3/10/2012

	INTERNATIONAL ORCHID FESTIVAL AT VAUCELLES ABBEY
From 3/15/2012 to 3/19/2012

	LE JARDIN DES BOVES IN ARRAS
From 3/24/2012 to 7/3/2012

ENDUROPALE IN TOUQUET-PARIS-PLAGE - MOTORBIKE RACE IN LE TOUQUET 2012

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