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1. www.francethisway.com › places › cambraiCambrai, France: travel and tourism, attractions and ...

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   Visit Cambrai (Hauts-de-France, France) Photo Gallery Book hotels, flights, car hire. Cambrai is in the Nord department of the Nord Pas de Calais region, south-east of Arras and north of Saint-Quentin. The story of Cambrai is forever part of the story of the First World War, where it was infamously at the centre of the world's first tank battle.

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   Cambrai (US: / k æ m ˈ b r eɪ, k ɒ̃ ˈ-/, [3] [4] French: ⓘ; Picard: Kimbré; Dutch: Kamerijk), formerly Cambray [4] and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord department and in the Hauts-de-France region of France on the Scheldt river, which is known locally as the Escaut river.

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   • Linda R. Salisbury, UK 627 contributions. Closed on Monday and Tuesday. Visited Wednesday-Excellent museum, with plenty to see and very well laid out.Well worth 4 euros to get in.The building itself is amazing.
   • jrapeter. Bude, UK 834 contributions. Impressive and beautiful at night. This is an impressive piece of architecture (currently part scaffolded for renovation - May 2023).
   • jrapeter. Bude, UK 834 contributions. Beautiful building. Strange but true that an “office de tourisme” is a tourist attraction but it’s in a 16c wooden clad building and is very pretty.
   • Mr P H. Cockermouth, UK 391 contributions. Architecturally interesting. This is a abbey-church which dates back to the 5th century. Originally St Peter's but now St Gery & St Aubert.

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   • Musée de Cambrai. Housed in a stately 18th-century mansion, Cambrai’s museum has Dutch, French and Flemish art, and artefacts recording the town’s story.
   • Église Saint-Géry. The current style of this magnificent church is a blend of Dutch Baroque and French Classicism, but the building has been evolving form more than a thousand years.
   • Cambrai Belfry. No city in this region would be complete without a medieval belfry, and these buildings in Northern France and Belgium have gained World Heritage status from UNESCO.
   • Porte de Paris. The most impressive single chunk of the city’s old walls is this gate that controlled the southern entrance. The Porte de Paris was erected towards the end of the 14th century, after Cambrai had come under siege by the English in the Hundred Years’ War.

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   Cambrai, town, Nord département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France. It lies along the Escaut River, south of Roubaix. Cambrai, France. The town was called Camaracum under the Romans, and its bishops were made counts by the German king Henry I in the 10th century.

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   Top Attractions in Cambrai. See all. These rankings are informed by Tripadvisor data—we consider traveller reviews, ratings, number of page views, and user location. 1. Musée de Cambrai. 63. Speciality Museums. By Gentiaantjes. We heard a lot about this museum in Cambrai.

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   Where is Cambrai in France?

   • Cambrai is in the Nord department of the Nord Pas de Calais region, south-east of Arras and north of Saint-Quentin. The story of Cambrai is forever part of the story of the First World War, where it was infamously at the centre of the world's first tank battle. Not surprisingly this did little for the architecture of the town!

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   When did Cambrai become a French city?

   • The treaty between the Holy Roman emperor Charles V and Francis I of France was signed at Cambrai in 1529. Cambrai eventually was assigned to France by the Treaty of Nijmegen (1678). The town’s former cathedral was destroyed in 1793 after the French Revolution, and the town’s present cathedral of Notre Dame was built in the 19th century.

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   Is Cambrai a sporty city?

   • Cambrai hosted the finish of Stage 4 in the 2015 Tour de France, on 7 July, with a route from Seraing. In 2010, the newspaper L'Équipe ranked Cambrai among the top five cities as the most sporty in France with more than 20,000 inhabitants, along with Lorient, Colmar, Antibes and Tarbes.

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   Where was Cambrai built?

   • Cambrai is built on the edge of the wide marshy area of the Scheldt Valley encircling the western part of the city, the Château de Selles [ fr ] to the north at the gate of the Holy Sepulchre in the south: Wet gardens, ponds, meadows, ponds and marsh formed a flood zone sometimes also used for the defence of the city.

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   Is Cambrai a Catholic city?

   • The people of Cambrai have places of Catholic, Protestant and Muslim worship. Cambrai is the seat of a Catholic archbishopric, suffragan of Lille since 29 March 2008. Until then, it was the opposite situation with the Archdiocese of Cambrai as the metropolitan archdiocese and Lille and Arras as its suffragans.

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   What is Cambrai known for?

   • Cambrai is affirmed as the urban centre of Cambrésis. Its economic life is strengthened by its position on the main local highway and river. Little is known with certainty of the beginnings of Cambrai. Camaracum or Camaraco, as it was known to the Romans, is mentioned for the first time on the Peutinger table in the middle of the 4th century.

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   Jun 28, 2023 · Cambrai is a charming city located in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France. Steeped in history and surrounded by beautiful countryside, Cambrai offers visitors a unique blend of cultural attractions, delicious cuisine, and a warm and welcoming atmosphere.