Somme: Battlefields, Amiens Cathedral, and the Bay
Somme is inseparable from the memory of World War I. The Battle of the Somme in 1916 killed or wounded over a million soldiers from multiple nations, and the landscape between Albert and Peronne is scattered with cemeteries, memorials, and preserved trenches. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing records over 72,000 names. Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, and South African visitors come throughout the year.
Amiens, the prefecture, has a cathedral that is the largest Gothic church in France by interior volume. Jules Verne spent the last decades of his life in Amiens and his house is now a museum. The Hortillonnages, floating market gardens on channels of the Somme river, have been cultivated since the Middle Ages. The Baie de Somme, where the river meets the English Channel, is a major bird sanctuary and seal colony. The department's population is around 566,000.
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Somme is inseparable from the memory of World War I. The Battle of the Somme in 1916 killed or wounded over a million soldiers from multiple nations, and the landscape between Albert and Peronne is scattered with cemeteries, memorials, and preserved trenches. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing records over 72,000 names. Australian, British, Canadian, Irish, and South African visitors come throughout the year.
Amiens, the prefecture, has a cathedral that is the largest Gothic church in France by interior volume. Jules Verne spent the last decades of his life in Amiens and his house is now a museum. The Hortillonnages, floating market gardens on channels of the Somme river, have been cultivated since the Middle Ages. The Baie de Somme, where the river meets the English Channel, is a major bird sanctuary and seal colony. The department's population is around 566,000.
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