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Welcome to Amiens, the destination for your weekends and great deals less than 2 hours from Lille and Paris. Amiens is rich in ancient cultural heritage and home to little havens of greenery: Notre-Dame cathedral, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Hortillonnages (floating gardens), Jules Verne's house, Saint-Leu district (next to the ...
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Jul 18, 2019 · Things to Do in Amiens, France: See Tripadvisor's 58,183 traveler reviews and photos of Amiens tourist attractions. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in June. We have reviews of the best places to see in Amiens. Visit top-rated & must-see attractions.
Explore Hauts-de-France’s best-loved towns. Amiens. To visit Amiens is to let yourself glide poetically through the floating gardens of Les Hortillonnages. It’s to allow your spirits to be lifted by the soaring heights of the city’s famous Gothic cathedral and to discover relaxing and enjoyable museums. You’re guaranteed to get away ...
Amiens Tourisme. Bienvenue à Amiens, la destination de vos week-ends et bons plans à moins de 2h de Lille et Paris. Amiens est riche d’un patrimoine culturel ancien et abrite des petits paradis de verdure : Cathédrale Notre-Dame classée au patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO, Hortillonnages (jardins flottants), maison de Jules Verne ...
- Amiens Cathedral
- Les Hortillonnages
- Saint-Leu
- Maison de Jules Verne
- Musée de Picardie
- Marie-sans-chemise
- Zoo d’Amiens
- Parc de Samara
- Cimetière de La Madeleine
- Tour Perret
All kind of ingredients come together to make this one of the world’s great cathedrals, and it’s no wonder that the monument is a UNESCO site. First, the dimensions: Amiens Cathedral was built when the goal was to flood the nave with light, and to do this the structure needed to be as high as possible. At over 42 metres, the nave at Amiens is only ...
On the western side of Amiens, within walking distance of the cathedral, the city gives way to a 65-kilometre network of canals coursing through reclaimed farmland with small houses. These floating gardens are the vegetable plots of the “hortillons”, market gardeners who have been working these lands since medieval times. The real way to see this i...
A few steps from the cathedral the streets are laced with waterways branching off the River Somme. You could pass a gentle afternoon ambling by the canals with painted old houses that would have had waterwheels attached in the middle ages. Rue d’Engoulevent, Rue du Don and Rue du Pont À Moinet are supremely pretty, but the whole area warrants explo...
The red-brick Maison à la Tour at 2, Rue Charles Dubois was Jules Verne’s home for 18 years until his death in 1905. The building is named for a quirky tower, capped by a domed skylight that illuminates the spiral staircase you’ll use to make your way around this riveting attraction. Fans of Verne’s books will get chills knowing he wrote 30 novels ...
Since it opened in 1867 the Musée de Picardie has been held as a provincial museum without rival. As well as the usual sumptuous collection of paintings from the 1400s to the 1900s there are exhibits that tell you more about Picardy’s ancient past and prehistory. You’ll see Palaeolithic hand-axes, Neolithic pottery and weapons from the Bronze Age, ...
Albert Roze was a sculptor who was born in Amiens and worked here for his whole career. In 1897 he created his most famous work, “Marie-sans-Chemise” (Marie, shirtless) , which created a stir at the time: The statue is an allegory of Spring and now sits at the corner of Rue des Sergents and Rue des Crignons. Roze also created the sculpture for Jule...
You won’t need to look far for things to do with kids in Amiens as the city’s zoo is right next to the centre. The setting is as green as can be, in 6.5 hectares of woodland with many trees more than 100 years old. Enclosures are along nature trails and feature anything from African elephants to dwarf goats. There are 300 animals in total, from aro...
You can have the anthropological outing of a lifetime at this educational attraction just west of Amiens. Starting with Cro-Magnon Man and leading all the way up to Roman times you’ll get to know how our distant ancestors lived and track the evolution of human technology. It’s a thoroughly hands-on attraction too, as each little settlement has huts...
Jules Verne’s resting place is one of the things to see at this 19th-century cemetery on the nothwestern outskirts of the city. But that’s not the only reason to come, as the graveyard is in 18 hectares of hilly woodland and is presented to the public as a calm and leafy place to learn about the kind of wealth that Amiens enjoyed in the 1800s. Ther...
This 110-metre residential skyscraper looks like nothing else in Amiens, and was built right after the war as part of a plan to redevelop the area around the city’s train station. Auguste Perret was a pioneer of modern architecture, and was also called on to rebuild the entire centre of Le Havre. His work there has since earned UNESCO status, and t...
Mar 15, 2024 · 1 - The Cathedral: climbing to gargoyle height. 2020 commemorates 800 years since the construction of Amiens Cathedral began. The largest cathedral in France is a masterpiece of Gothic statuary - the Chroma show illuminates the 765 statues on the façade every evening until 22 September.
Jun 24, 2014 · Amiens. France, Europe. One of France's mightiest Gothic cathedrals is reason enough to visit Amiens, the former capital of Picardy. The mostly pedestrianised city centre, tastefully rebuilt after WWII, is complemented by lovely green spaces along the Somme River.
