COME AND DISCOVER A UNIQUE MEMORIAL SITE
3 different sites and 3 complementary experiences to understand the First World War, remember and pay tribute to all those who sacrificed their lives for peace.
Start your discovery of the Memorial 14-18 Notre-Dame-de-Lorette by the History Center at the foot of the hill Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. Its architecture made of black concrete cubes and its permanent exhibition with objects, photographs in large format.
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HISTORY CENTRE
Here, emblematic objects, high quality unpublished photographs, period films and animated maps help to understand the extent of the conflict in the Nord Pas-de-Calais during the First World War.
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RING OF REMEMBRANCE
Erected in 2014, the Ring of Remembrance is an international memorial that has been engraved with the names of almost 580,000 soldiers who lost their lives in Nord-Pas-de-Calais between 1914 and 1918, to remember and pay tribute to all these lives sacrificed during the Great War.
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LORETTE NECROPOLIS
At the top of the Notre-Dame-de-Lorette hill, in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, the bodies of more than 42,000 French soldiers who died during the First World War on the Artois front and in French and Belgian Flanders sleep for eternity.
