| Saint-Etienne-au-Mont (St. Étienne-au-Mont / Sint-Stevens Bergen) | |
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| Sainte-Thérèse Church and Place Victor Hugo | |
| Information | |
| Country |  France |
|---|---|
| Region | Nord Pas de Calais |
| Watercourse | the Cachaine The Warenne The Becque d'Hardelot |
| Altitude | Between 0 and120 m |
| Area | 14,05 km² |
| Population | 5 000 hab. |
| Postal code | 62360 |
| Spindle | UTC 01:00, UTC 02:00 |
| Location | |
 50 ° 39 ′ 50 ″ N 1 ° 36 ′ 11 ″ E | |
| Official site | |
Saint-Etienne-au-Mont is a locality of Pas-de-Calais.
Understand
They are very welcoming people like most people from Nord-Pas-de-Calais. It is enough just to respect the rules in community.
Location
The locality is located between the 3 major European capitals of London, 153 km ; Brussels, and 208 km of Paris. It is located in the heart of the Côte d'Opale-Dunes de Flandres, a tourist coast between the Picardy Coast and the Belgian Coast (By Kust) between the south Boulogne-sur-Mer and the north of Touquet Paris-plage.
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, in the heart of the European megalopolis, is a municipality diversified by its landscapes, its history, and its heritage. The Municipality has sections (villages):
- Brick Bridge, urban area.
- Ecault, Natural, forest, and agricultural area.
Story
antiquity
During Antiquity, the site was occupied by the Morins. The Liane was a river of abundant water and its estuary became at each tide a veritable lake which extended as far as Isques, a village which also takes its name from a Celtic word meaning "water". At low tide, the lake gave way to an impassable lagoon.
To connect the two banks and connect the Outreau peninsula and the whole country south of the Liane with Boulogne which was then called Gesoriacum, and also to break the violence of the flow, a bridge was built downstream from Isques , where the valley narrows. It is this work of art which is at the origin of the Pont-de-Briquoise agglomeration and which gave it its name. A phrase from the Latin historian Florus suggests that this bridge was built between AD 12 and 9 BC, by Claudius Drusus, the brother of Emperor Tiberius.
In addition, a small Gallo-Roman establishment, dating from the 1st and 2nd century, was brought to light in Écault in 2004. In addition to everyday objects, it was found around the foundations of six houses, deposits of slag. suggesting a steel craft industry.
Middle Ages
The toponym Pont de Briques appears for the first time in the form of Pont de Brike in a charter of 1278 which specifies the limits of the suburb of Boulogne. The bridge supported a road which linked Amiens to Boulogne. This route entered Boulonnais by crossing the Canche at the Attin ferry, then reached Pont de Briques via Frencq, the hamlet of Chemin à Neufchâtel, the forest of Hardelot, Choquel, the disappeared hamlet of Sandune, Audisque and the rue au Sand.
A 13th century document reports the presence of a church on the “mosier Saint-Étienne” around 1121. This church was the basis of the current church of Écault. The monument was largely destroyed in the 14th century by the English. In 1630, the priest Louis Macquet attempted to rebuild the church but did not achieve a suitable result.
Napoleonic period Between 1803 and 1805
Napoleon Bonaparte set up an army camp around Boulogne-sur-Mer, with the aim of preparing an attack against the United Kingdom. The Boulogne camp thus hosted the Army of the Ocean Coasts, which was to become the Grande Armée. The Emperor took up residence in the small castle of Pont-de-Briques, which is currently on the territory of the municipality of Saint-Léonard. The choice of this residence was motivated by the ease of access to Boulogne and its camp by crossing the Liane.
Twentieth century
The municipality of Saint-Étienne-au-Mont was born from the merger of Pont de Briques and Écault.
Today
During the Second World War, the town, like the other towns in Boulonnais, suffered a lot of damage. In particular, only a few houses have survived in Écault after the conflict. Currently, the town benefits from the main services: shops, media library, college, etc. Tourism, motivated by the proximity of the Opal Coast, is an economic activity of a certain importance: Saint-Étienne-au-Mont has several lodges and a 258 pitches camping-caravan site located between the dunes and the forest of Écault.
To go
Paris
Highway
- Champs-Élysées / Porte Maillot direction Rouen, then Argenteuil, follow the A 15 to CALAIS, then enter theA 16-E 402 Always follow CALAIS, then BOULOGNE after Amiens, take the exit 28 ISQUES SAMER, then follow ST ETIENNE-TO-MT
Be careful, Autouroute à Péage when entering Picardy.
Train
- TER Picardie from Paris-Nord, to Boulogne-Ville via Amiens, then line 7 of the TCRB Buses, will take you directly to the Commune
- TGV from Paris-Nord to Lille Europe or Lille Flandre, then take the TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais, to Boulogne-Ville, where it can also stop at Pont-de-Briques station.
London
Train
- Eurostar from St-Pancras, arrival at Calais-Frethun by the Channel Tunnel, then take the TER Nord-Pas-de-Calais to Boulogne-Ville, take Bus 7 TCRB.
Road
- From Westminster take the A 202 then the A 210 as well as the A 20 to Swanley, take the M 25 (London Orbital, towards the M 20 Maidstone, then Ashford-Folkestone, you can take the Tunnel (Channel Tunnel) or the Ferry to Calais.
By Ferry
Follow Dover, then terminal, take the Ferry, arrive in the port of Calais, continue straight towards A 26 (E 15), then follow Boulogne direction A 16-E 40 E 15. Follow Boulogne, then Amiens and exit by the exit 29 towards Outreau, as soon as you arrive at the roundabout, follow:ST ETIENNE-TO-MT
By Eurotunnel
Follow Channel Tunnel, Cheriton, take the Shuttle, arrival at Coquelles, follow Boulogne A 16- E 402, then Exit 29
Brussels
Train
- Thalys, towards Oostende Station, then you can take the Kusttram towards De Panne-Adinkerke Station, then take the DK'Bus Marine bus line towards Gare de Dunkirk, so you can take either the TER Nord- Pas-de-Calais to Boulogne Ville or Pont-de-Briques or by the BCD Bus, to Boulogne-Ville.
Road
- A 10-E 40 to Brugge via Ghent, then follow Calais Duinkerke, then A 16 Direction Boulogne / Exit 29.
Bus
- For Pont-de-Briques, the TCRB Line 7, passing through the Boulogne-Ville SNCF train station, arriving in the city center
- For Pont-de-Briques, Isques side, the TCRB line 17a Where 17b towards Hesdin l'Abée.
- For Ecault, the TCRB Line 15, passing through the SNCF train station, then the Outreau town center, it will stop directly at the Val d'Ecault, easy access to the Camping-Aréna and the Dunes / Forêt
All of the above Buses start their services from Place de France in Boulogne-sur-Mer.
- For Ecault from Pont-de-Briques, the TCRB Green Line Val d'Ecault.
- The Colver Departmental Line is number 42 BOULOGNE-ETAPLES-BERCK
Plane
- Brussel Zaventem Luchthaven, at 194 km
- London Heathrow, Gatwick, City Airport to 153 km
- Paris Roissy CDG Airport to 208 km
- Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport to 195 km
- Lille Lesquin Airport to 100 km
- Calais-Dunkirk Airport to 60 km
- Le Touquet Côte d'Opale Airport to 10 km
- Oostende-Brugge Luchthaven to 114 km
To see
- Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, has a dune site, exceptional and unique in Europe. It is about Dunes, clad on ancient cliffs, it covers most of all the south of the coast of the Côtes d'Opale and Picardy from Equihen-Plage to Ault.
- Arena, Environmental Interpretation Center, and Middle Dunaire. Arena - Nature Interpretation Center (Video on Youtube)
- The Domaniale forest of Ecault, Many Confières, and regional subjects, it also allows by means of these paths, caught up with the towns of Condette and Hardelot on foot.
- The Landscape of Pasture, and the Agricultural Landscape, also offers a very interesting view of the Boulonnais, from the height, it is visible to see the Grand site of the 2 Caps, as well as the whole town of Boulogne, the Cliffs of Dover as well as than Normandy, and all the southern Opal Coast.
- La Chapelle d'Ecault, overlooking all the Boulonnais.
- Ecault beach
- The city of Pont-de-Briques,
- The castle of Pont-de-Briques
- The liane, river crossing Pont-de-Briques
- Flowery green spaces
- the Flowered Peacock of the Town Hall
- The Calonne castle, media library
- Agricultural areas
- Former APO industrial sites
- Rue de la Gare and Rue Paul Doumer
- The Carrefour of the RD 940, with the Bakery (Architecture Style)
- The stele of the Chemin des Juifs
- The Saint-Augustine cross
To speak
- Picard, a regional language spoken in Wallonia, Picardy and Nord-Pas-de-Calais, more precisely, Boulonnais is not spoken as a dialect.
Old people, of a certain age, or older than another, tend to end their sentences with Fiu, which means Son otherwise, Viu who wants to mean Old is less pronounced. Example of some vocabulary words in Picard:
- Me = Mi
- You = Ti
- Son = Fiu
- Oh Said! = Oh dice!
- I will research = Ive Quére
- Petit = Tcho or Tchote when it comes to a girl
- English is a language used in the south of the town of Pré-Catelan,
- There is only 0.1% of the interlocutor who speaks Dutch.
French remains a very widely used and common language.
Eat
- Ch'ti hungry Haffreingue Street (Outreau)
- The refectory of the APOs, Former refectory of the Aciéries Paris-Outreau, today a restaurant, Rue Haffreingue in the direction of Outreau.
- The bakery of Pont-de-Briques not far from rue de la gare in Isques, offers Sandwiches.
Have a drink / Go out
- Stadium Café
- The Millenium on Hardelot-Plage
To buy
Many shops in the city center of Saint-Étienne-au-Mont (Tobacconist / Grocery / Post office / Appliances / Clothing ...)
2 Pharmacies in the center of Pont-de-Briques only
Commercial zone
- Brick Bridge, The Intermarché shopping area, towards Le Touquet Condette-Hardelot has a Press agency, Optician, Brico Marché, Elephant BLEU, and a food store for animals as well as a gas station.
Housing
Saint-Étienne-au-Mont, has several collective and individual housing both in Pont-de-Briques and Ecault, with Logis 62 and Pas-de-Calais Habitat.
The municipality has;
- Many labeled cottages and guest rooms Holiday key and Gîtes de France, on both places.
- Hotel of the River, rue de la gare access by Isques (D 901).
- Pre-Catelan Center, PGL access by Hardelot Rue Jean Gaillarde
Camping
Camping de la Warenne, Campsite ** straddling the Dunes d'Ecault and Aréna, easy accessibility to the Beach.
Around
With Boulogne, Calais, Saint-Omer, Dunkirk, Le Touquet ...
- The Franco-British Cultural Center of the Entente Cordiale de Condette, Château d'Hardelot.
- The Marais de Condette and its lake
- The Hardelot Plage seaside resort
- The old town of Boulogne
- The city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, with Nausicaa Center Nationale de la Mer
- The castle Museum of Boulogne-sur-Mer
- The Land of Desvres, Land of Earthenware and Ceramics
- The large site of Les 2 Caps, with a view of the famous cliffs of Dover.
