Fort Nieulay, located along the Avenue Roger Salengro originally dated to the 12th or 13th century. During the English invasion in , sluices gates were added as water defences and a fort was built up around it in on the principle that the people of the fort could defend the town by flooding it.
It was completed in , with the purpose to protect the bridge of Nieulay crossing the Hames River. Calais contains several museums.
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The building is a former Nazi bunker and wartime military headquarters, built in by the Todt Organisation. The metre-long structure contains twenty rooms with relics and photographs related to World War II, and one room dedicated to World War I. The cast was erected in , funded by a public grant of 10, francs.
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It is a bronze sculpture, attributed to Edward Lormier. One of these victims, Delpierre Auguste, — , drowned at age 21 before the beach at Calais; a dock in the city is named for him. The monument was dedicated on 22 June Monument "Jacquard" was erected on the square in , opposite the entrance to the Calais theatre. It commemorates Joseph Marie Jacquard , popular in Calais because of his contribution to the development of lace through his invention of the Jacquard loom.
Parc Richelieu , a garden behind the war memorial, was built in on the old city ramparts and redesigned in She died in Calais on 15 January With the arrival of the railway fewer British visitors stopped in Calais and Dessin's closed in It was one of the earliest hotels on the continent of Europe to specifically cater for the British elite.
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Every month, Casino Le Touquet hosts a dinner and dance cabaret. The casino features slot machines, blackjack, roulette, and poker facilities. There are several schools in Calais. Calais Racing Union was liquidated in September [97]. The rugby club in Calais is Amicale Rugby Calaisien. The Port of Calais was the first cable ship port in Europe and is the fourth largest port in France and the largest for passenger traffic. Cargo traffic has tripled over the past two decades.
In more than As well as the large port, the town is served by three railway stations: Local bus services are provided by STCE.
Free car parking facilities are available in front of the Calais ferry terminal and the maximum stay is three days. Calais—Dunkerque Airport is located at Marck , 7 kilometres 4. Saint-Inglevert Airfield is located at Saint-Inglevert , 13 kilometres 8. Calais is twinned with:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the town in northern France.
For other uses, see Calais disambiguation. Subprefecture and commune in Hauts-de-France, France. Olivier Levasseur, dit La Buse — , pirate. Jean Nicolas Grou — , Jesuit author and theologian. She was the mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson. Beau Brummell — , English dandy, lived in exile in Calais from to Henri Ernest Baillon — , physician and botanist. Paul Fournier — , French legal historian and paleographer Georges Andrique — , painter. Yvonne Vendroux — , wife of General Charles de Gaulle.
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Alfred-Georges Regner , — , painter and engraver. Ida Gotkovsky — , composer and pianist. Pierre Bachelet , — , singer and composer, grew up in Calais. Didier Lockwood — , jazz violinist. Romain Barras — , decathlete, European Champion in July Delphine Ledoux — , rhythmic gymnast, finished 13th at the individual all around qualification at the London Olympic Games. Edmond Roche — , playwright, poet and librettist. List of twin towns and sister cities in France.
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