The Somme tourist board

"If we can bring together the symbols of heaven and earth in our innermost hearts, we can recreate our own Garden of Eden. We become a conscious allegory of eternity."
Bruno LEBEL

From 31 May to 8 June 2008
The Picardy Fair has become a major commercial event for the entire region.
10,000 m2 de exhibition halls and 25,000 m2 of outdoor area, 300 exhibitors from a wide variety of sectors and more than 35,000 visitors from the whole of Picardy.
Theme for 2008: ‘The Challenges of Space’

Every summer, Amiens Cathedral is dressed anew in its original colours, thanks to a unique technological process. An unforgettable vision of how religious buildings must have looked in the past...

From 15 June to 21 September 2008

La rue est à Amiens! (The Street comes to Amiens)
La Fête dans la Ville, the International Festival of Street Arts and Theatre, will again be lighting up the days and nights in the heart of Amiens.
A festival and a time for new discoveries, when street theatre and circus acts take over the town for four days.

The National Music Festival, Fête de la Musique, was first held on 21 June 1982, a pagan night harking back to the ancient tradition of the Summer Solstice.