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The Best Attractions In Boulogne-sur-Mer

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Boulogne-sur-Mer , often called Boulogne , is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the Côte d'Opale, a touristic stretch of French coast on the English Channel between Calais and Normandy, and the most visited location in the region after Lille conurbation. Boulogne is its department's second-largest city after Calais, and the 60th-largest in France. It is also the country's largest fishing port, specialising in herring.Boulogne is an ancient town, and was the major Roman port for trade and communication with its Province of Britain. After a period of Germanic presence following...
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The Best Attractions In Boulogne-sur-Mer

  • 1. Nausicaa Boulogne Sur Mer
    Nausicaā Centre National de la Mer is a public aquarium located in Boulogne-sur-Mer in France. It is the largest public aquarium of Europe. Nausicaa is described as a center of scientific and technical discovery of the marine environment, focusing primarily on the relationship between man and the sea.
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  • 2. Le Touquet Beach Le Touquet Paris Plage
    Le Touquet-Paris-Plage , commonly referred to as Le Touquet, is a commune near Étaples, in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It has a population of 50,355 but welcomes up to 250,000 people during the summer.Le Touquet has a reputation as the most elegant holiday resort of northern France, the playground of the Paris and Lille bourgeoisie, with many luxury hotels. Since the mid-1990s, Le Touquet's villas have become extremely fashionable amongst architecture lovers throughout Europe, rediscovering the folie of seaside architecture of both the Roaring Twenties and the 1930s. The most famous local architect is Louis Quételart.
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  • 3. Calais Wine Superstore Calais
    Sainsbury's is the second largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom, with a 16.9% share of the supermarket sector. Founded in 1869, by John James Sainsbury with a shop in Drury Lane, London, the company became the largest retailer of groceries in 1922, was an early adopter of self-service retailing in the United Kingdom, and had its heyday during the 1980s. In 1995, Tesco overtook Sainsbury's to become the market leader, and Asda became the second largest in 2003, demoting Sainsbury's to third place for most of the subsequent period until January 2014, when Sainsbury's regained second place.The holding company, J Sainsbury plc, is split into three divisions: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd , Sainsbury's Bank and Sainsbury's Argos. The group's head office is in Sainsbury's Support Ce...
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  • 4. Notre Dame de Boulogne Boulogne Sur Mer
    The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Boulogne, otherwise the Basilica of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception , is a minor basilica located in Boulogne-sur-Mer in the Pas-de-Calais département of northern France. The basilica, a prominent landmark of the city with its 101 metre high dome, was built between 1827 and 1875 on the site of the medieval cathedral of Boulogne: the basilica is still known locally as the cathedral, although the present church has never had that status.
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  • 5. Plage De Boulogne Sur Mer Boulogne Sur Mer
    Georges Méliès , a French filmmaker and magician, made a variety of short actuality films between 1896 and 1900. Méliès was established as a magician with his own theater-of-illusions, the Théâtre Robert-Houdin in Paris, when he attended the celebrated first public demonstration of the Lumière Brothers' Kinetoscope in December 1895. Unable to purchase a camera from the Lumières, who insisted that the venture had no future, he bought a film projector and some films from the British film experimenter Robert W. Paul and began projecting them at the Théâtre Robert-Houdin. Meanwhile, Méliès studied the principles on which Paul's projector ran, and in 1896 was able to modify the machine so that it could be used as a makeshift camera. At first, Méliès followed the custom of the time...
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  • 13. St Nicholas Church Boulogne Sur Mer
    St Oswald's Church is a Church of England parish church located in Ashbourne, in the county of Derbyshire, England.
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