unusual torchlight,
costume and
aerial tours
Unusual tours
- 302steps up to the cathedral
- 30meters underground: Naours
- 296steps to reach the summit of Saint-Vulfran
Climbing towers and bell towers
Vertiginous rides
Inhale deeply, save your breath and climb the few hundred steps to the top of the towers of Amiens cathedral and the zenith of Abbeville’s collegiate church. Enjoy 360° views of the 3 largest cities in Samaria…
Once you’ve climbed the 307 steps to the top of Amiens Cathedral ? You’ll be able to enjoy a magnificent panoramic view of the city, with explanations from your guide.
From the top of the collegiate church of Saint-Vulfran in Abbeville, you’ll be able to take in the city as well as the voluptuous Somme valley.
Mysterious visits
By torchlight
Depending on the time of year, you can visit Saint-Valery-sur-Somme by night. From the sailors’ chapel to the quays, from the shopping streets to the medieval remains, the town is sumptuously illuminated to discover its heritage with new eyes and enjoy an enveloping, mysterious night-time atmosphere.
Baie de Somme Tourist Office
Morgane, in Saint-Riquier, also offers lantern-lit tours on certain dates and tells you the mysteries and legends of this village with its sublime abbey.
Terres et Merveilles Tourist Office
Journey to the center of the Earth
Underground exploration
The Somme’s tumultuous history has seen it suffer multiple invasions. To protect themselves, people took refuge in underground hideaways, or muches (Picardy for “hiding place”), like those at Naours. As you make your way through this maze of chalk, imagine what life was like for the inhabitants, who took their livestock and crops with them.
Underground city of Naours
Mystery, darkness, legend… Moonlit tours will send shivers down your spine…
Dramatized or in costume
for total immersion
On the second Sunday of every month (except July and August), enjoy an unlikely encounter at the Maison Jules Verne in Amiens. Jules Verne himself or his wife Honorine, or Rose the maid, Hetzel the publisher or the illustrious characters from the novels, will take you on a surprising tour of the Jules Verne House.
In Corbie, during the summer, the Friday Ghosts take place, and in May, the Folleville Mysteries. The same company offers guided tours in which actors in period costume emerge from the past to bring to life the ghosts of illustrious characters and tell you the history of the site.
For the Friday Ghosts in Corbie: Office de Tourisme du Val de Somme
For the Mysteries of Follville: Office de Tourisme Avre Luce Noye
Meet
caroline lebourgeois
Director of the underground city of naours
“33 meters underground, we discover the organization of a village with rooms, a chapel and a village hall. Inhabitants used ingenious methods to fool the enemy: diverting smoke exhaust through the miller’s house to avoid detection.”
