the port of the privateers and of Jean Bart, the Duchesse Anne in the harbour basins, the beach of Malo-les-Bains, the museum of Operation Dynamo, and the winter carnival
Dunkirk is the northernmost port in France, close to the border with Belgium, on the North Sea. The city of the privateers and of Jean Bart was almost entirely destroyed in the Second World War and rebuilt afterwards, low and in pale concrete, around what was left: the belfry and the church of Saint-Éloi, where Jean Bart is buried, the Hôtel de ville with its tower, the tour du Leughenaer on the harbour. In the basins of the centre the ships of the Musée portuaire are moored, the three-masted Duchesse Anne and the red lightship Sandettié; towards the sea, in the bastion where the French command stood in 1940, the Dunkerque 1940 museum tells the story of Operation Dynamo, and in front of it begins the beach of the evacuation, which becomes the digue of Malo-les-Bains, with its Belle Époque villas, and then the dunes all the way to Belgium. In Dunkirk the motorhome sleeps at a stopover near the centre, next to the museum, or at the campsite in Malo, and you get around the city on foot and by bus, which is free for everyone. In winter there is the carnival, three months of balls and parades, with herrings thrown from the balconies of the town hall.
Sleeping
Stops and overnight stays
In Dunkirk there is a paid stopover for motorhomes near the centre, next to the Dunkerque 1940 museum, with water and emptying but no electricity; those who want facilities and the beach on the doorstep go to the La Licorne campsite, in Malo-les-Bains, open from April to early November. Next to the campsite there are six free spaces without facilities, and further east, in Leffrinckoucke, another campsite close to the dunes.
Area di rue des Chantiers de France
rue des Chantiers de France, 59140 Dunkerque
the motorhome stopover near the centre, on the second and third levels of the terraced car park of the Maison du Développement, next to the Dunkerque 1940 museum and the LAAC sculpture garden, five minutes on foot from the beach. It has no electricity and no toilets. The FRAC - LAAC stop of the free C4 bus line is right in front, and place Jean-Bart is just over a kilometre away. In the same street, further east, there is also the Maison de l'Emploi car park, the highest of the terraces, free and without facilities
25 motorhome pitches
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The tourist office gives it as paid, for a stay of up to 72 hours, but does not publish the price list; in January 2026 a stay cost 8 euros for 24 hours and 4 euros for six hours, and emptying was free
a three-star campsite of the Vagues Océanes chain, east of Malo-les-Bains, with direct access to the beach, a swimming pool, a bar and a restaurant. It has a motorhome service point; the pitch, of 50 square metres, has 8 amp electricity with a European socket, and those with a different plug bring an adapter. There is no wifi. With the transit formula you arrive during reception hours: out of season from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00, in season from 8:00 to 19:30. Pets are allowed
58 pitches for those passing through, out of 329
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For motorhomes passing through, with the transit formula, from 11.60 to 15.10 euros a night with facilities included, the tourist office writes without giving the year; the price of the pitches is given by the online booking system · +33 3 28 69 26 68 · campingdelalicorne.fr
six motorhome spaces on the roundabout next to the Camping La Licorne, near the collège Gaspard-Malo, in Malo-les-Bains. The nearest facilities are the campsite's
a campsite a hundred metres from the sea, with direct access to the beach, in Leffrinckoucke, the first village east of Dunkirk, among the dunes. The Fort des Dunes is less than a kilometre away, and from there the free C1 and C2 buses go to the centre
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The tourist office does not give the price for motorhomes: ask the campsite · +33 3 28 20 17 32 · natureetvacances.fr
Dunkirk is explored on foot and by bus, and the buses are free for everyone. The motorhome stays at the stopover or at the campsite; those who arrive by way of Lille must have the Crit'Air sticker, for the metropolitan area's low emission zone.
The DK'Bus buses are free for everyone, on all the lines of the Communauté urbaine, from 5:30 to 22:30. The six Chrono lines, C1 to C6, run from Monday to Saturday from 7:00 to 19:00, every ten minutes for the C1, C2, C3 and C4, every fifteen for the C5 and C6; in the evening there are the Noctibus. The C3 goes to Malo-les-Bains, to the Casino stop, a few steps from the sea; the C4 to the Dunkerque 1940 museum, the LAAC and the FRAC, at the FRAC - LAAC stop; the C1 and C2 to the Fort des Dunes. The office is at 5 place de la Gare, phone +33 3 28 29 27 00
On foot: the tourist office's walk round the centre is a one kilometre loop, from the belfry to the harbour basins and back, which the office gives as three quarters of an hour without the visits. From the centre to the start of the digue of Malo-les-Bains it is almost two kilometres as the crow flies; from the Musée portuaire to the Risban lighthouse, on the other side of the harbour, it is twenty-five minutes on foot
By bicycle: the cycle paths run from Gravelines to Bray-Dunes, along the digue of Malo too, and the Vélomaritime, EuroVelo 4, passes through here. Bicycles, electric ones too, can be hired from LVDK, at 1 bis digue de mer, phone +33 6 59 34 63 53: in 2027 from 1 March to 31 October, Thursday to Sunday from 10:00 to 18:00, from 15 euros
In the centre by day: street parking is paid from Monday to Saturday from 9:00 to 12:00 and from 14:00 to 18:00. In Malo, in high season, the seafront road is closed to cars and parking in the neighbourhood is difficult: better to take the bicycle or the C3
The Lille low emission zone: that of the Métropole Européenne de Lille has been in force since 1 January 2025, every day and at all hours, and also includes the A1, A25, A22, A23 and A27 motorways. It only bans vehicles without a class, registered before 1997, but the Crit'Air sticker is compulsory for everyone, foreign vehicles passing through included: those coming from Paris on the A1 and the A25 cross it. The sticker is ordered on the official website certificat-air.gouv.fr, as a vehicle registered abroad. Those who leave the A1 at Arras and take the A26 as far as Saint-Omer, and then the A16, do not go through the Lille metropolitan area: the list of the zone's roads names neither the A26 nor the A16
From Paris: the A1 as far as Lille is a toll motorway; the A25 from Lille to Dunkirk is free. Dunkirk does not appear in the national database of low emission zones
Seeing
Sights
A day and a half. The centre on foot, with the tourist office's loop: the belfry, Saint-Éloi, place Jean-Bart, the street of the Marine down to the harbour basins, the Musée portuaire with its ships, the Leughenaer and the town hall. Then, towards the sea, the Dunkerque 1940 museum, the LAAC and the FRAC, the lighthouse, the digue of Malo-les-Bains as far as the jetée Est, and to the east the Fort des Dunes, the dunes and, at low tide, the wrecks. Tap a marker on the map to open its entry below.
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The belfry of Saint-Éloi
Viewpoint · paid entry · 51.03564, 2.37621
rue de l'Amiral Ronarc'h, 59140 Dunkerque
the brick tower, 58 metres high, raised in 1440 as the bell tower of the church of Saint-Éloi, until in 1558 a fire separated the two buildings; it then served as a lighthouse, a landmark for sailors and a watchtower. It has a carillon of fifty bells that rings every quarter of an hour, and on Saturdays from 16:00 to 17:00 the carillonneur plays it. You go up by lift to the carillon and then on foot, sixty-five steps, to the terrace at the top, with the view over the city, the harbour and the beach. In strong wind the terrace may close, and minors only go up accompanied. On the ground floor is the tourist office. The belfry's street, rue de l'Amiral Ronarc'h, is the "rue de la Soif", the street of thirst, full of bars.
Opening hours in 2026 from 4 April to 31 August every day 10:00-12:30 and 14:00-17:30, in September and October 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:30, in winter with reduced hours; last ascent half an hour before closing · 5 euros; 3.50 from 7 to 12 years, for seniors and students; 14 euros for a family of two adults and two children; free up to 6 years · +33 3 28 26 27 28 · dunkerque-tourisme.fr
the church in the centre, which the people of Dunkirk call the cathedral of the sands: brick, with the façade, the pillars and the window frames in white stone, five naves and an ambulatory with five chapels, rebuilt and enlarged several times after fires and wars. The marks of shells can still be seen on the façade. Jean Bart is buried in the choir. Its old bell tower is the belfry, on the other side of the street.
Opening hours outside services Tuesday to Saturday 9:00-12:00 and 14:00-18:00; on Sundays only in July and August, 12:30-17:45. Sunday mass is at 11:30
the old royal square designed by Vauban, with the bronze privateer in the middle, his sabre raised, by David d'Angers, of 1845, on the pedestal bearing the names of his ships. Jean Bart, a Dunkirk sailor ennobled by Louis XIV, saved France from famine in 1694 with the battle of Texel. During the carnival the crowd goes round and round the statue. Around the square stands the city of the Reconstruction, whose first stones were laid right here in 1949: low reinforced concrete buildings, with terracotta tiles, stone and glass blocks. In December the Christmas market is held on the square.
from the square the rue de la Marine leads to the harbour basins. Along the axis of the Marine are the granite blocks of Richard Nonas, the American Land Art artist, which tie the city to the water; at the end is the Porte de la Marine, of the seventeenth century, the entrance to Louis XIV's arsenal. At the quai de l'Estacade the Princess Elizabeth is moored, a paddle steamer of the 1920s and one of the Little Ships of Dynamo: in June 1940 she made four crossings and brought about 1,700 men back to England, and today she is a restaurant and tea room. The bassin du Commerce, closed off from the sea by a lock, always keeps the same level and is the marina; opposite is the Citadelle, the nineteenth century warehouses that have become the university and the evening quarter.
the harbour museum, in a nineteenth century tobacco warehouse on the quai de la Citadelle: three floors on the history of the port of Dunkirk from the seventeenth century to today and on the people of Dunkirk who sailed from Iceland to Cape Horn. Its ships are moored in front. The Duchesse Anne, a 92 metre square-rigged three-master, was launched in 1901 in Bremerhaven as a German training ship under the name Grossherzogin Elisabeth, passed to France in 1946 as war reparations and was renamed after Anne of Brittany; the city bought her in 1981. Under restoration from January 2024, she reopened in June 2026: you see the cadets' 'tween deck with the hammocks, the captain's quarters and the holds, in about an hour. Next to her the red lightship Sandettié, of 1952, which lay at anchor between France and England to mark the sandbanks, the last one in service in France, the Guilde barge and the tug Entreprenant, built in Dunkirk in 1965. The ships are not wheelchair accessible; the museum has a lift. The museum ticket gives the reduced rate at the FRAC.
Opening hours the museum Monday and Wednesday to Sunday 10:00-12:30 and 13:30-18:00, closed on Tuesday; the ships, with the Duchesse Anne, Saturday and Sunday 14:00-17:30. During the school holidays of zone B the museum is also open on Tuesday and the ships every day 14:00-17:30. Closed on 1 January, 1 May, 25 December and carnival Monday · the museum 8.50 euros, reduced 6.50, family 22.50; the ships are paid separately, or with the combined ticket valid for seven days; free up to 6 years. From 7 to 25 years and with a TER Hauts-de-France ticket for the same day you pay the reduced rate · +33 3 28 63 33 39 · museemaritimeportuaire.com · accueil@museemaritimeportuaire.com
the tour du Leughenaer is the oldest monument in Dunkirk, the only one left of the twenty-eight towers of the Burgundian walls, from around 1400; the name means "the liar". Next to it is place du Minck, where early in the morning the fishermen sell the catch of the day from their huts, the aubettes: "minck" comes from Dutch and means "mine", because the first to shout it took the fish. From here the channel leads to the sea, with the tide rising between four and seven metres.
the town hall, built from 1897 to 1901 in Flemish neo-Renaissance style, of brick and stone, with its own belfry, also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a short distance from that of Saint-Éloi. On the façade are the great figures of Dunkirk and in the centre Louis XIV on horseback, who bought the city back from the English in 1662. Inside there is a monumental stained glass window by Félix Gaudin showing the return of Jean Bart after the battle of Texel, which during the war was taken down and kept safe in Lille: you can see it when the town hall is open, and wheelchair users enter from rue Faulconnier. From the balconies, on the first day of the Trois Joyeuses, the mayor throws herrings to the carnival crowd.
Bastion 32, rue des Chantiers de France, 59140 Dunkerque
the museum is housed in the brick vaults of Bastion 32, a coastal defence work of 1874 which in 1940 was the French headquarters of the sector. It tells the story of the battle of Dunkirk and of Operation Dynamo, from 26 May to 4 June 1940: almost 1,400 vessels, from warships to civilian boats, carried more than 330,000 soldiers caught in the pocket to England, while the French held the city until the Germans arrived. The route follows the order of events, with operations maps, photographs, dioramas, vehicles, uniforms and weapons, and has a trail for children; the visit takes from an hour to an hour and a half. The museum is next to the motorhome stopover, and in front of it is the beach from which the soldiers left.
Opening hours in 2026 every day 10:00-18:00, with the ticket office closing at 17:00; closed in January · 8 euros, 15 euros for two people; reduced 5 euros from 12 to 18 years and for students; free under 12 years. With the Musée portuaire or with the Fort des Dunes, 10 euros for the two museums · +33 3 74 06 02 81 · contact@dynamo-dunkerque.com
the Lieu d'Art et Action Contemporaine, the museum of twentieth century art, born from a large donation of works collected in the 1970s and 1980s by Gilbert Delaine with some sixty businesses of the city: more than 2,500 works, art from 1945 to 1980 placed beside the art of today, and an exhibition every year. The white building is by the architect Jean Willerval, and the garden around it, with the sculptures, is by the landscape architect Gilbert Samel: the garden is open to everyone. It stands next to the Dunkerque 1940 museum and the motorhome stopover.
Opening hours Tuesday to Friday 9:00-18:00, Saturday and Sunday 11:00-18:00; closed on Monday, 1 January, 1 May, 15 August, 1 November, 25 December and on the Sunday of the Malo-les-Bains carnival · 6 euros, reduced 3; free every Sunday, and under 26 years · +33 3 28 29 56 00
the region's contemporary art collection, in the district of the old shipyards, the Ateliers et Chantiers de France. The architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal left the 1949 Halle AP2, the workshop where the largest ships were assembled, as it was, and placed beside it a transparent double of the same size: the route ends at the viewpoint, at the top, over the harbour and the sea. Between one exhibition and the next the FRAC closes for setting up: the dates are on the website.
Opening hours Wednesday to Sunday 14:00-18:00; closed on Monday and Tuesday, 1 January, 1 May, 25 December and while exhibitions are being set up. On 24 and 31 December it closes at 16:30 · 8 euros, reduced 4; free under 18 years and for students · +33 3 28 65 84 20 · fracgrandlarge-hdf.fr · contact@fracgrandlarge-hdf.fr
Dunkirk's lighthouse, built in 1842 on the ruins of Vauban's Risban fort, 60 metres high: 276 steps to the top, with the view over the sea, the city and Flanders, and the Fresnel lens that can be seen from more than fifty kilometres away. Damaged in the war, it was restored in 1946 and automated in 1985. On the ground floor, in the keepers' quarters, there is an exhibition on sea signals. It is opened by the Musée portuaire, and the visit takes about half an hour; from the museum it is twenty-five minutes on foot.
Dunkirk's beach, wide and long, which at low tide becomes enormous and is ridden by sand yacht. Malo was a town in its own right until 1970: on the digue, the seafront promenade, stand the Belle Époque villas with façades full of gables, spires and bay windows, which inspired the decoration of the beach huts lined up on the sand. Along the shore, for almost seven kilometres, there are restaurants with terraces, ice cream makers and friteries, and a wide cycle path. Towards the harbour the digue ends at the jetée Est, the pier from which thousands of soldiers were embarked in 1940: walking the digue to the jetée is the stroll of the people of Dunkirk. You reach the beach from the centre with the C3 bus, at the Casino stop. The Malo market is on Tuesday morning, in place Turenne.
a fort of 1878, its buildings hidden under the sand of the dunes, built after the defeat of 1871 to defend the port from the east. In 1940 it was part of Operation Dynamo: on 2 June General Janssen and his men of the 12th Motorised Infantry Division died there under the bombs of the Stukas, and next to it is the national cemetery, with 190 graves including Janssen's. In 1944 the Germans shot eight members of the Resistance there. Today it is a museum and a memorial, with exhibitions and an outdoor route with an audio guide, an hour and a half; there are steps and slopes, the rooms are cool, and you need good shoes. Dogs are allowed on a lead. You get there with the free C1 and C2 buses, at the Fort des Dunes stop, or by bicycle on the Vélomaritime.
Opening hours in 2026 from 3 March to 31 October, Tuesday to Sunday 10:00-18:00, with last entry at 17:00; closed on Monday, open on public holidays, 1 May included · 7 euros, 3.50 from 7 to 18 years and for students, free under 7 years; the guided tour, to be booked, 8 euros and 4. With the Dunkerque 1940 museum, 10 euros for the two museums · +33 3 28 29 13 17 · fort-des-dunes.fr
from Malo-les-Bains to Bray-Dunes, towards Belgium, fifteen kilometres of beach and more than a thousand hectares of dunes, a Grand Site de France. There are three protected areas: the Dune Dewulf in Leffrinckoucke, the Dune Marchand in Zuydcoote, a national nature reserve since 1974 and the only one in the Nord department, and the Dune du Perroquet in Bray-Dunes. You walk on the paths marked by posts, without leaving them, and take your rubbish away with you. Along the shore between Leffrinckoucke and Zuydcoote are the bunkers built by the Germans during the occupation.
during Operation Dynamo more than two hundred vessels sank, and at low tide some of them can still be seen on the beach. On the beach of Zuydcoote lies the Crested Eagle, a British paddle steamer, and a few hundred metres away the Devonia, which her captain ran aground on purpose after the fighting. Go only at low tide: check the times before setting off, as the tourist office advises, on maree.info.
Dunkirk is the city of the carnival: from January to March there is no Saturday without a ball and no Sunday without a parade. In December the centre becomes a Christmas village, and in June the digue of Malo hosts a free festival.
Next: Dunkerque la Féerique · 28 Nov - 3 Jan
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Dunkerque la Féerique
from late November to early January
the city's Christmas: the Christmas market in place Jean-Bart, with the chalets, the big wheel and the open-air ice rink, in 2026 from 28 November to 31 December, and Father Christmas's castle inside the Hôtel de ville, from 5 December 2026 to 3 January 2027, closed on 25 December and 1 January
16Jan
Carnaval de Dunkerque
from January to March
three months of balls and parades, the bandes, which have their origin in the feasts of the fishermen who in the seventeenth century set off for months towards Iceland. The high point is the Trois Joyeuses, the three days of Shrove Tuesday: on Sunday the Bande de Dunkerque, with the herrings thrown from the balconies of the Hôtel de ville, in 2026 at 17:00; on Monday the Bande de la Citadelle and on Tuesday that of Rosendaël. On the following Sunday, the Bande de Malo-les-Bains, by the sea, ends with the rigodon in place Turenne: an hour of singing and pushing around the musicians, until the Cantate à Jean Bart. The balls are on Saturday evenings, almost all at the Kursaal in Malo, and tickets are bought in advance in some shops in the city. You dress as you like, with make-up instead of a mask, a flowered hat, a tall umbrella and old lace-up shoes, and you walk when the fifes play. On parade days you cannot drive or park along their route: the motorhome stays well away, and you arrive on the free buses
16 Jan · 6-9 Feb · 13-14 Feb
18-20Jun
La Bonne Aventure
in June
a free three-day festival between the harbour and the digue of Malo-les-Bains, held since 2017: concerts day and night, installations and secret trails. You pay with the festival's cashless system
Remember
Useful tips
Order the Crit'Air sticker before you set off, on the official website: without it you cannot cross the Lille low emission zone, which includes the A1 and the A25. Those coming from Paris without one leave the A1 at Arras, take the A26 as far as Saint-Omer and then the A16
At the rue des Chantiers de France stopover there is no electricity: those who need it go to La Licorne, where with the transit formula you arrive during reception hours, out of season by 18:00
The spring holidays of the northern schools, zone B, run in 2027 from 17 April to 2 May, and school starts again on the 3rd: on those days the Musée portuaire is also open on Tuesday and the ships every afternoon. The Risban lighthouse can only be climbed on Sunday mornings
On 1 May the Musée portuaire with its ships, the LAAC and the FRAC are closed; the Fort des Dunes stays open. The LAAC is also closed on Monday, the FRAC on Monday and Tuesday, the Fort des Dunes on Monday, and the Musée portuaire on Tuesday, outside the zone B holidays
The market in the centre is on Wednesday and Saturday; on the other days there is the covered market of the Halles des Sœurs Blanches, closed on Monday. The fishermen's fish is bought early in the morning in place du Minck
For the Zuydcoote wrecks check the time of the day's low tide, and go with the tide going out
Along the coast there are other stopovers: at Bray-Dunes, towards Belgium, an eighteen-space stopover with electricity and emptying; at Gravelines, towards Calais, a stopover with water and emptying in front of the windmill. Heading for Calais on the A16, the Grande-Synthe service area, on the carriageway towards Calais, has water and emptying for cassettes and for grey and black water
For the carnival, plan where to stop away from the parade routes: each day the route of that day's bande is closed to cars, and the free buses go everywhere. If you are coming for a ball, buy the ticket in advance
In a motorhome potjevleesch is made in the evening, with a pot and a terrine, and eaten the next day: twelve hours in the fridge set it. Alternatively, in Dunkirk you can buy it ready made
Dunkirk · part two
and then?
What to taste, and where to go tomorrow.
Taste
Dunkirk's cuisine comes from the fishermen and from Flanders, and is eaten in the estaminets, the Flemish taverns. The city's dish is potjevleesch, the "little pot of meat": four white meats cooked and left to set in their own jelly, served cold with chips and salad. Then mussels and chips, the friteries with fricadelles and vinegar, and smoked herrings, which here are called klipper and are the food of the carnival, together with podingue, the bread pudding with rum, and onion soup after the parade. Fish waterzooi is found everywhere, but the tourist office itself writes that it comes from Belgium. At Christmas people give gaufre dunkerquoise, the crisp waffle with light brown sugar and cinnamon, and in the pâtisseries there is the doigt de Jean Bart, almond, coffee and chocolate, created in 1953. From the countryside to the south comes Bergues cheese, its rind washed with beer. You do the shopping at the market in the centre, on Wednesday and Saturday from 8:00 to 14:00 in place du Général de Gaulle and on the cours François-Bart, or at the Halles des Sœurs Blanches, the covered market of local produce, from Tuesday to Saturday from 8:00 to 19:00 and on Sunday from 9:00 to 15:00. In the centre there is also a microbrewery, the 4 Écluses.
the Duchesse Anne, the red Sandettié and the Guilde barge reflected in the still water of the basin, in front of the Musée portuairePhoto: Musée maritime et portuaire de Dunkerque, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Saint-Éloi belfry, the 58-metre brick tower, under a blue sky with cloudsPhoto: Welleschik e Ulamm, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Éloi seen from the belfry terrace, with the pointed roofs of the aisles and the Reconstruction houses around itPhoto: Claus Ableiter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the neo-Gothic façade of Saint-Éloi with its rose window and pinnaclesPhoto: Velvet, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the central nave of Saint-Éloi looking towards the choir, with its high pale vaultsPhoto: Velvet, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Jean Bart's tombstone in the choir of Saint-ÉloiPhoto: Velvet, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the bronze statue of Jean Bart with his raised sabre, by David d'Angers, on its pedestalPhoto: Claus Ableiter, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Place Jean-Bart empty on a winter morning, with the statue and the Reconstruction buildingsPhoto: Dunkerqueenflandre, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the town from the belfry terrace, with the town hall tower, the port and the sea beyondPhoto: Zairon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the brick and stone Hôtel de ville, with its belfry and Louis XIV on horseback above the central windowPhoto: Zairon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0Félix Gaudin's stained-glass window in the Hôtel de ville, showing Jean Bart's return after the Battle of TexelPhoto: Ellywa, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the herring throw from the balconies of the Hôtel de ville, with the carnival crowd and umbrellas belowPhoto: Marie-Lan Nguyen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5the 17th-century Porte de la Marine, the old entrance to the arsenal, in the evening lightPhoto: Andrzej Otrębski, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the Hôtel de ville above the marina, with sailing boats moored in the basinPhoto: Velvet, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the façade of the Musée portuaire, the old tobacco warehouse on the Quai de la CitadellePhoto: Théo Chrétien, Musée maritime et portuaire, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the cadets' hammocks in the 'tween deck of the Duchesse AnnePhoto: Alain.Darles, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0the steering wheels on the deck of the Duchesse AnnePhoto: Alain.Darles, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the red Sandettié lightship moored in the basin under a blue skyPhoto: Marc Ryckaert, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0the Tour du Leughenaer above the boats in the port, near the Quai des HollandaisPhoto: Marc Ryckaert, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0the Princess Elizabeth, a paddle steamer from the 1920s, moored in the portPhoto: Nauda68, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the brick arches of Bastion 32, home of the Dunkirk 1940 museum, with a gun in frontPhoto: Hispalois, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the white Risban lighthouse, 60 metres tall, under a blue skyPhoto: Alain.Darles, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0a row of Belle Époque villas in Malo-les-Bains, with stepped gables, spires and bay windowsPhoto: Pierre André Leclercq, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the beach huts lined up on the sand of Malo-les-Bains, with the villas of the promenade behindPhoto: Velvet, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the wide beach and the houses of the promenade, with a few people in the sun, on an April dayPhoto: Jiel Beaumadier, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the clique and the costumed crowd on the promenade of Malo-les-Bains, with the sea behind, during the carnivalPhoto: Pichasso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0the Fort des Dunes at Leffrinckoucke, with its buildings hidden under the grassy dunesPhoto: Leffrinckoucke, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0a sandy path between the green dunes of the Dune Marchand reservePhoto: Pierre André Leclercq, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0a horse grazing in the Dune Marchand among the flowering hawthorns, at the end of MayPhoto: Pierre André Leclercq, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0the plates of a wreck on the beach at Leffrinckoucke, towards Zuydcoote, with the dunes behindPhoto: Pierre André Leclercq, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
