Hauts-de-France

Once a year, this disused railway bridge plays a starring role, namely during the passage of the spring classic in cycling: Paris-Roubaix.

In 2004, the French brewery and malthouse Terken in the northern French city of Roubaix closed its doors.

Wissant, a seaside resort between the rocky capes of Cap Gris-Nez and Cap Blanc-Nez, has been inundated with tourists since the late nineteenth century. The dunes teem with holiday homes and villas in Art Deco style, such as Villa Le Typhonium. However, during the Second World War, sun worshippers were not welcome at the beach of Wissant.

Antoine de Bourgoine, a bastard son of Philip the Good, had the Gothic chapel of Guémy built on the French Mont Saint-Louis at the end of the 15th century.

During the Second World War, the German Air Force developed an unmanned flying bomb, the V1 (Vergeltungswaffe).

The Fontinettes boat lift in Arques, France, bridges a height difference of 13 meters on the Neufossé canal, which connects the Lys river and the Aa.

The blue-painted headframe is all that remains of the French Sabatier coal mine, closed in 1980.

Oignies is the last place in the French mining basin of the Pas-de-Calais region where coal was exploited. The mine did not close until December 1990.