Tourist attractions Malo-les-Bains

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..

«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..

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..

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..

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

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.

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!

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 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.

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.

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

This 30ha theme park is based around Samson and Gert (a dog that speaks to his master), plus an elf called Plop, who are very popular with children in Flanders. The focus here is on younger visitors: free entrance for those below 1m in height!

Visitors can see Delvaux's Post-Impressionist to Surrealist development with paintings, watercolours, drawings, engravings and sketches and enter his dreamlike, hallucinatory and poetic world here. Note the eerie light in Gare forestière (1960). Ther..

This fine set of brick buildings once belonged to Dune Abbey. The monumental barn, similar to the one in Ter Doest, now lies in ruins.

This abbey was founded by Benedictines in 1107 and became Cistercian in 1138. It was one of Western Europe's major abbeys under Abbot Elias van Koksijde around 1300 and was destroyed by Calvinists in 1566. The ruins still reveal the majestic lines ..