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.

LILLE FLEA MARKET - Sept. 4th and 5th 2010 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... [+]

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	DUNKERQUE CARNIVAL - From 01/23/2010 to 03/06/2010 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 02/06/2010 to 02/07/2010 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 2010 - April 11th 2010 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... [+]

	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. 2nd and 3rd 2010 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. 13th and 14th 2010 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..... [+]

	"LABORATOIRE EUGÈNE LEROY” EXHIBITION TOURCOING FINE ARTS MUSEUM
From 11/13/2009 to 9/19/2010

	MARK BRUSSE, “HEUREUSEMENT L’ART N’EST PAS RAISONNABLE” AT THE LAAC IN DUNKIRK
From 3/7/2010 to 9/19/2010

	“CORPS A CORPS” EXHIBITION AT THE DUNKIRK FINE ARTS MUSEUM
From 5/7/2010 to 10/30/2011

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