At the (Re) Discovery of the heritage of Arleux, Nord Pas-de-Calais

Depart from the town of Arleux, latitude 50.2783800 (N 50° 16’ 42”), longitude 3.1014800 (E 3° 6’ 5”)

• The mill tells du roy

• It is the only one of the five mills in the Arleux region not to be named. It was the property of several nobles before 1789 and badly damaged during the First World War. After renovation, it now houses the premises of the Tourist Office.

• The St. Nicholas Church

• It was built in the 12th century. It houses a Baroque organ buffet from the eighteenth century, a pulpit to preach from the same period and a stone foundation dating back to the twelfth century.

• The monument to the dead

• It was built thanks to a couple following the death of their only son in the war.

• The voodoo of the dead
• The smoking room at aïl

• Smoked garlic with swamp peat is the specialty of the city of Arleux. Take the time to enter a garlic smoker to discover all the secrets.

• Street of Lights
• The forestel

• State prison which commanded the road from Arleux to Palluel to cross the swamps of La Sensée.
• Around 1350/1360, Charles the Bad, King of Navarre, was locked in the Forestel.

• Path of Thieves

• Two reasons are worth the name of the Chemin des Voleurs, renamed afterwards Chemin des Biselles.

• The Prussian Bridge

• This book refers to an episode in the history of Arleux. In 1871, the Prussians, at war with the French, stopped near this bridge without invading the city. The news of the end of the war had just arrived.