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Abbeville (French: ⓘ; West Flemish: Abbekerke; Picard: Advile) is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme.
- 2–76 m (6.6–249.3 ft), (avg. 8 m or 26 ft)
- Somme
- Abbeville Belfry
- Musée Boucher-de-Perthes
- Église Saint-Vulfran
- Parc de La Bouvaque
- Château de Bagatelle
- Parc D’Émonville
- Manufacture Des Rames
- Carmel
- Château D’Eaucourt-Sur-Somme
- Véloroute Vallée de Somme
Going as far back as 1209, Abbeville’s belfry is among the oldest in France. It also has UNESCO World Heritage designation as one of many important belfries across northern France and Flanders. You’ll be lucky to find another as impressive, as it climbs to almost 30 metres with walls that are more than two metres thick at the base. Crowning the bel...
The belfry is in fact an annexe of Abbeville’s museum of fine arts, which is housed in two post-war buildings next door. The oldest collections here belonged to Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, a 19th-century antiquarian and archaeologist who by discovering flint tools in the Somme’s marshes proved the existence of Palaeolithic humans. His ...
This church was built towards the end of the 15th century, at a time of great local prosperity, which accounts for the Flamboyant Gothic decoration on the western facade. The aim was to create the most beautiful church in the feudal county of Ponthieu, and the complexity of the mouldings, traceries, pinnacles and portal carvings might just leave yo...
As municipal parks go, Abbeville’s is something special. In 60 hectares in the city’s northern suburbs, this tract of wetland was where farmers would bring their cattle to graze. The park now is arranged around two large ponds that have been left in a semi-wild state, and has little shelters where if you’re patient you can sight waterfowl such as s...
On summer afternoons this stunning folly opens its doors for you to look around its stately interiors and amble through its the French formal gardens. The property was built in the middle of the 1700s by a textile industrialist, who hired a crack team of craftsmen to fit the interiors. Take the wrought iron railing on the double revolution staircas...
Up to the Revolution this English-style park was in the grounds of Abbeville’s Benedictine priory, before being sold to one Arthur Fouques Émonville, a botanist who had a passion for camellias. He established a hotel in the centre, which after he died became the municipal library, while the gardens were opened to the public after the war. In the En...
In Abbeville’s eastern Hocquet district is a former linen factory founded by the Dutch weaver Josse van Robais in 1665. He had been drafted in by Louis XIV’s Minister of Finances Jean-Baptiste Colbert to produce fabrics and tapestries for the French crown. In its day this was one of France’s largest industrial operations, employing 3,000 people by ...
July to September you can arrange a guided tour of Abbeville’s former Carmelite Convent with the city’s tourist office. The Carmelite order’s relationship with the town lasted long after the Revolution: The nuns were kicked out of their previous convent on Rue Saint-Gilles and spent the next 30 years without a permanent home before moving into thes...
Minutes beyond Abbeville’s southern limits are the ruins of a castle that was erected around the start of the 15th century. The property had been hotly contested all through the middle ages but was left unoccupied from the end of the 18th century. Since the 80s though the site has been turned into a kind of feudal activity centre in summer, when yo...
Bring your bike to Abbeville, because the city is on a 120-kilometre trail that hugs the Somme River and promises an easy, family-friendly course to historic cities or sensational natural spaces. To make a day of it you could go east to Amiens, and on the way ride through the fabled Hortillonages, historic market gardens criss-crossed by canals. If...
Abbeville. Historic capital of maritime Picardy, Abbeville is only 25 kilometers from the English Channel and the Bay of Somme. The beautiful city, endowed with rich historical monuments, is crossed by the Somme. Between urbanism and nature, the town has found its balance. And it is in an exceptional natural setting that shines the city, a real ...
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- Theatre of Abbeville
- Tourist Office of the Abbevillois
- Train station of Abbeville
Abbeville, town, Somme département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, near the mouth of the canalized Somme, northwest of Amiens.. Stone Age artifacts unearthed by Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes in 1844 attesting to early occupation of the site are displayed at the Musée Boucher-de-Perthes.
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Abbeville is an important town in the Somme region of Picardy (north-eastern France) between Amiens (to the south-east) and Le Crotoy on the coast to the west. It is the proximity of Abbeville to the Bay of Somme that also attracts a good number of visitors here.
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