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Lens, Pas-de-Calais. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Lens ( French pronunciation: [lɑ̃s] ⓘ; Picard: Linse) is a city in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. [3] It is one of the main towns of Hauts-de-France along with Lille, Valenciennes ...
- 27–71 m (89–233 ft)
- Pas-de-Calais
- Louvre-Lens. Where a pithead used to be is an ethereal minimalist construction that stands as the first satellite attraction for the fabled Louvre Museum in Paris.
- Lens’ 14-18 Centre d’Histoire Guerre et Paix. Employing the latest museum techniques and calling on an impressive array of archive footage (more than 60 hours), 5,000 photographs and contemporary maps, this museum offers context about the First World War.
- Les Terrils Jumeaux, 11/19. Close to the Louvre-Lens are two gigantic black pyramids, the largest slag heaps in Europe, and a constant reminder of Lens’ coalmining history.
- Église Saint-Léger. A church has stood at this location since the 900s, but every one of them has suffered from war damage, whether it was the Thirty Years’ War in the 17th century, the First World War or the Second World War.
Lens, industrial town, Pas-de-Calais département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, southwest of Lille. It was the chief urban centre of the Pas-de-Calais coal basin. Since the demise of coal mining in the 1980s, a wide range of new industries and services has been developed in Lens. These include companies manufacturing wires and ...
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Jan 4, 2023 · Contact : Office de Tourisme et du Patrimoine de Lens-Liévin 58 rue de la gare 62300 Lens Tél : + 33 (0)3 21 67 66 66 Mail : info@tourisme-lenslievin.fr. FACEBOOK - Office de Tourisme et du Patrimoine de Lens-Liévin (in French only)
Sep 10, 2022 · 4. Office de Tourisme de Lens-Lievin. The tourist office of lens-lievin is open from mondays to saturdays from 09:30 am to 06:00 pm. You will find information about our heritage (first world war sites, mining sites, art deco architecture), cultural sites such as the museum of louvre-lens and also natural sites.
Jun 3, 2019 · Lens is a city in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France near the border with Belgium and close to the city of Lille. Lens is near many WWI memorials, including the closest at Vimy, where the battle of Vimy Ridge was fought, and Loos, where the Battle of Loos took place 3 miles northwest of Lens.
Lens is a city in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is one of the main towns of Hauts-de-France along with Lille, Valenciennes, Amiens, Roubaix, Tourcoing, Arras and Douai.
