Hotel Amiens

Visit Amiens

visit Amiens

The WW1 battlefields and gravesites tour:

• memorials within an hour

• DOULLENS (command room)

• ALBERT (museum of shelters)

• DELVILLE WOOD SOUTH African Soldier memorial

• Thiepval British Memorial

• Villers Bretonneux australian memorial

NOTRE-DAME Cathedral : light, perfection, harmonious proportions, masterpiece of gothic art. Added to the list of UNESCO’s world heritage sites in 1981; light shows from june to mid-september and christmas holidays.

SAINT-LEU quarter “the little VENICE of the North�: small houses with colourful façades; intimately linked to water, ancient Amiens is criss-crossed by a lot of canals. Coffee houses, restaurants and pubs provide outdoor terraces.

THE HORTILLONNAGES or floated gardens: 300 hectares of small islands criss-crossed by 55 km of canals: a splendid natural reserve which can be explored either walking or in a traditional boat.

 JULES VERNE: an Amiens personality. He settled in Amiens in 1871 and wrote most of the works that made him famous. You can visit his house, the circus he inaugurated that bears his name and his tombstone in the Madeleine cemetery etc...