In the Poppy Country, tourism is built with the locals ! Here is a non-exhaustive list of the places they like to show their families and friends, from must-see sites to the little gems of the territory.
Final advice : stock up on energy in our accommodation and restaurants. And don't leave without having savored our local specialties!
The 7 sites listed as World Heritage Sites :
- Commonwealth Memorials of Beaumont-Hamel and Auchonvillers
- Commonwealth Military Cemetery of Thiepval and Authuille
- Commonwealth Missing Memorial of Thiepval
- Pozières British Cemetery and Pozières Memorial at Ovillers-La-Boisselle
- Commonwealth Cemetery at Louvencourt
The Remembrance Trail
The Somme 1916 Museum and the Thiepval Site Museum
Ulster Tower in Thiepval
Lochnagar Crater in La Boissel
The "P'tit train de la Haute Somme"
The meanders of the Somme
The Public Garden in Albert
The viewpoints of Frise, Eclusiers-Vaux and Camp César
The cycle routes of the Valley of the Somme and the Memory route
The ponds of Bray-sur-Somme and the future ornithological reserve of Etinehem-Méricourt
The spaces preserved by the CEN (Frise and Vaux montains...)
The nautical base and the port of Cappy
The Notre-Dame de Brebières Basilica, the train station, the town hall and the Art Déco facades of Albert
The Acheux, Authie, Louvencourt, Vauchelles, Raincheval castles
The church and the Madame chapel of Mailly-Maillet
The priory of Authie
The Industry and Aeronautics Epic Museum
The International Amiens - Henry Potez
The Air Show
Henry Potez's legacy
Welsh Memorial, Dragon of Mametz
Linfield Memorial in Bertrancourt
Australian Memorial, Animals Memorial and Tanks Memorial in Pozières
Glory Holes in La Boisselle
Aveluy Wood (in front of the Ulster Tower, with tranchees)
Cairn of Contalmaison (tribute to the Scottish)
French War Memorial and plaque for the Belgian soldier Andrian Carton de Wiart on the Thiepval church
Mill Road Cemetery with its leaning graves at Thiepval
Connaught Cemetery (Blakey soldier)
Cemeteries with red steles (Martinsart, Courcelles, Auchonvillers)
German Cemetery in Fricourt
Bouzincourt Cemetery where Lupton (great-uncle of Kate Middleton) is burried
Bouzincourt Muches
Tommy Bar and OceanVillas Tea Room (reconstructed trenches, private collection of WWI and WWII)
The Vélodrome and ponds of Albert
The hiking trails
The Hédauville, Bus-Les-Artois, Suzanne, Hénencourt and Marieux castles
The Toutencourt, Varennes, Pys, Bazentin, Irles, Miraumont, Beaumont, Authuille, Mesnil, Thiepval, Bouzincourt, Marieux churches
The old public baths of the city of Albert
The replicas of the Lourdes caves in Hérissart and Vauchelles
The Historical Museum of Bray-sur-Somme Region
The works of Maurice Dhomme and the stained glass windows of Gérard Ansart
The Aviation Festival
The firsts flights
Hawthorn Ridge Crater (Beaumont-Hamel)
Breton Calvary of La Boisselle
Authuille Cemetery with William Mcbrise tomb
Tomb of Henri Thomassin in Fricourt (Gallo-Roman road)
2 bunkers Auchonvillers' road
Aveluy's nymph / The needles of the old church brought back by the Irish to Mesnil
The source of the Ancre
Our "Villes et Villages Fleuris", the Saint-Léger-Les-Authie rosebush
Eel beds and fishing routes on the Authie, the Ancre and the Somme
Local markets (Acheux en Amiénois...)
Local productions : Cueillette de Cappy, Verger de Suzanne, microbreweries...
Lilith's Garden
The wash houses of Bray sur Somme, Saint-Pierre Divion and Miraumont
The Acheux chapel
The bust of Lamarck in Bazentin
The tomb of the Edmée Jarlaud aviator in Acheux-en-Amiénois
Watch the Beluga flying
