The large cobble-stoned squares and tall belfries are so characteristic of the Pas–de-Calais. Béthune’s medieval carillon tolls out from its celebrated belfry, whilst the belfry in Arras, the most prominent part of the Town Hall, is crowned with a golden lion.

In Béthune the renowned 2 Michelin star « Le Meurin » restaurant has a refined cuisine of local flavours. The “Faisanderie”, a restaurant housed in a former stable in one of Arras’ underground passages invites you to taste their chitterling sausage speciality. Whether it is made of gingerbread, cheese or chocolate Arras offers you its ‘heart’. Beetroot, sugar and shallots are the livelihood of the small town of Lillers, and, less than 100 years ago it was the town that shod the whole of France !