The department breaks up into three part:
The Coast of Opal: a landscape full withcontrasts which interferes the green bursting itsmeadows, with the bluish colors gray of the waves.
Green Country: Scrap-metals in marsh, all herebreathes softness and the return to the sources: Itis Belle Vie!
Artois: Between plains of Artois, mining countryand agricultural villages.
Local specialties
Mixing marine landscapes, flat and scrap-metals,the Pas-de-Calais is a territory characterized by itsdiversity. Throughout the year, the specialities andlocal products, resulting from the varied local productions and quality, are a true pleasure of the papillae!
Major events and venues
First tourist equipment of the Pas-de-Calais withsome 625,000 visitors each year, Nausicaa invitesyou to a trip in the middle of the sea.
Louvre-Lens east dedicates to the collectionscoming from the museum from Louvre in Paris, theGallery of Time, when 205 works are exposedaccording to a chronological presentation:Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern times.
The Audomarois Marsh, 1st Reserve of Biosphereby UNESCO!
The Great Site of the Two-Capes is an emblematicsite of the department of the Pas-de-Calais. It wasthe first in France with being classified GreatNational Site.
The town of Arras is famous for its splendidbaroque places which form a single architectural unit.
