Tourist attractions Bergues

Visitors can take a boat trip around the Port-Est (east port) from the bassin du Commerce, taking in the tug base, workshops, locks, textile warehouses, sugar terminal, refinery and oil wharfs and the power station, etc. If you are on foot, visit the..

This vast square is lined with fine buildings (Town Hall, Landhuis, St Walburg church) and mostly early-17C houses topped by imposing gables, pediments and cornices. On the north side, note the set of five houses with fine gables, adorned with heav..

Painting collections from the 16C to the 20C (from Largillière to Soulages!) and documents relating to the history of the town. In the entrance hall is a panel composed of 540 Delft tiles, representing the harbour under canon fire in 1695.

This museum retraces the history of Dunkirk and its port. Thirty or so models are on display, representing an impressive array of vessels ranging from schooners, outrigger trawlers and three-masters from the 18C to giant, modern super tankers. T..

«To mix art and industry» was an obsession with Jean Delaine, an engineer who created a superb modern art collection: Karel Appel, Arman, Sam Francis, Vieira da Silva, Andy Warhol, Joan Miro are all in this building, designed by the architect, Jean W..

Out in the middle of fields, the superb stables, cowsheds and barn of Bernard and Christine Carette-Six's working farm were converted in 1994 into an exhibition space focusing on the habits and customs of the region at the start of the 20C. You can l..

Like the quartier Excentric, this district still has the atmosphere of a fishing village in days gone by: brewers' residences and small wooden houses in rue des Pêcheurs.

The pirate's statue standing in the square is by David d'Angers (1848).

A fine brick construction dating from the 13C, given extra height in 1440. It was used as the bell-tower for St-Eloi's church. Its 48-bell peal honours the «King's official pirate» on the hour and plays other popular tunes on the quarters.

The present church was built in the 16C and remodelled in the 19C, hence its Neo-Gothic façade. It has strange proportions due to the removal of the transept. The size of the five naves, the radiating chapel apse, the stained-glass windows by the mas..

A profusion of towers, pinnacles and statues: they were generous with the Renaissance style in 1901! Have a glance at the hall, lit by a stained-glass window by Félix Gaudin, representing the return of Jean Bart after his victory at Texel.

A visit to the fish market is a must, with the hustle and bustle of the crowd buying salt cod, cod, sole or kippers - the Flemish speciality.

The statue represents Notre-Dame-des-Dunes, venerated by sailors.

This octagonal tower was one of 28 towers comprising the Burgundy fortifications which encircled the town in the 14C. Why the name? Because they used to light signals here to trick enemy ships.

A church built in 1962 in the form of a ship's bows, a wooden steeple next to it, resembling a mast: the North Sea is on its doorstep!

150 species, some from the North Sea, are presented in 21 aquariums.

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This museum has several sections with reconstructed rural buildings containing early farming equipment from the West Flanders province. Note the fine Gothic church, whose interior is adorned with old woodwork and nearby small 17C pilgrimage chapel.

The 16C-17C Beauvoorde Castle is a charming building with crow-stepped gables, surrounded by water and hidden behind its park's great trees. The interior has 17C woodwork and rich antique furniture and artifact collections.