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The light tower of Calais

The Calais Light Tower/Lighthouse is the successor to a lighthouse that used to stand not far from it. The

In the Ferques / Marquise region there are some large quarries. In Marquise you have rather softer limestone, in Ferques you find

Officially, this tower is called "the chimney of Bullescamps." It stands at the highest point in Pas-de-Calais: 212 meters high. However:

V1 and V2 bomb missiles were prepared in this World War II bunker. Fortunately, the bunker was largely destroyed in time

In the Ypres industrial zone, there is a small wind farm. Not directly something to visit or touristically interesting at this

There are a total of 1,457 wind farms in France with 1,789 wind turbines for a total installed capacity of as much as 24 GW

AstroLAB IRIS is a particularly beautiful and interesting initiative: it is both a Project Observatory and a People's Observatory located near Ypres.

It is often said that windmills "pollute" the horizons, the landscapes. However, have you ever seen the wind farm of Widehem