Amiens city and the surroundings

INFORMATION ON AMIENS AND SURROUNDINGS

Amiens is a city in northwestern France, located in the Somme department and in the Hauts-de-France administrative region. As the crow flies, the city is 115 km from Paris, 180 km from Brussels, 245 km from London and 455 km from Frankfurt.

Amiens has 133,625 inhabitants (at the last census in 2021) and is the center of the metropolitan area of Greater Amiens, which has nearly 400,000 inhabitants.

The first city in France in terms of the number of UNESCO heritage sites, Amiens is famous for its Notre-Dame Cathedral, a jewel of Gothic art and one of the largest cathedrals in the world.

Nicknamed the "Little Venice of the North" because of the many canals that cross it and the hortillonnages (a set of floating gardens covering 300 hectares), Amiens offers a rich heritage and picturesque districts, witnesses to a two-thousand-year-old history.

The University of Picardy Jules Verne is the main higher education institution in the city and the Somme department. It has 31,500 students.

Located in the northern part of the Paris Basin, the city benefits, on a Western European scale, from a privileged geographical location due to its proximity to Paris, London and Brussels. At the crossroads of major European-level traffic routes (A16, A29 and close to the A1, A2, A26, A28 motorways), the city is also at the heart of a major railway hub.

Regionally, Amiens is located 53 km north of Beauvais, 55 km south of Arras, 71 km west of Saint-Quentin, 66 km from Compiègne, 102 km from Laon and 121 km from Calais. Nationally, Amiens is located 97 km from Lille, 100 km from Rouen, 144 km from Reims and 162 km from Le Havre.

Source: Wikipedia (2024).

LINK TO THE AMIENS TOURISM OFFICE WEBSITE

https://www.amiens-tourisme.com/