Abbeville, France Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

ABBEVILLE lies about halfway from Calais to Paris and makes a convenient stop-off on the N1. Until hit by a German air raid in May 1940, it was also a very beautiful town. Nowadays, all that remain of its former glories are a superbly ornate Flemish-style gare SNCF ; a belfry , reputedly the oldest in France; and the Gothic church of St-Vulfran , which was on a par with the cathedrals at Amiens and Beauvais. Restoration work on the church, which was badly scarred during the war, only finished in 1993. The western facade still bears superficial scars but the interior pillars have been replaced with exact copies and the … more »