10. Autoroute A1 connecting Arras with Paris and Lille, Autoroute A26 connecting Arras with Calais and Reims, The European route E 15 connecting Arras with the United Kingdom and Spain as well as the northern and southern parts of France. For the Bible translation, see, Subprefecture and commune in Hauts-de-France, France, "Horaires des trains à l'arrivée de la gare de Douai", Douai zawiesza współpracę z Puławami za strefę anty LGBT. Inscrivez-vous à la Newsletter ViaMichelin. Arras mainly has a Western European oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification: Cfb) affected by the North Atlantic Current as it is close to the English Channel (La Manche in French). Douai is a commune in the Nord département in northern France. On 31 August 1914, German light cavalry (Uhlans) arrived in Tilloy-lès-Mofflaines, and an army patrol made a foray into Arras. The population of the metropolitan area, including Lens, was 552,682 in 1999. Cet itinéraire est celui pour lequel la distance pour se rendre à son point de destination est la plus courte, tout en restant sur des routes praticables. Others believe it comes from the Celtic word Ar, meaning 'running water', as the Scarpe river flows through Arras.

The reconstruction was extremely costly, yet it proved to be a success and allowed the city to expand. The Union of Arras was signed here in January 1579 by the Catholic principalities of the Low Countries that remained loyal to King Philip II of Habsburg; it provoked the declaration of the Union of Utrecht later the same month.

C'est l'itinéraire que MICHELIN préconise par défaut. [2][unreliable source?] By 843, Arras was seat of the County of Artois which became part of the Royal domain in 1191. It flows through the cities of Arras, Douai and Saint-Amand-les-Eaux. Editions des Beffrois, 1988. The ownership of the town was repeatedly disputed along with the rest of Artois. The chimes are rung by a mechanism every quarter-hour, but are also played via a keyboard on Saturday mornings and at certain other times.
The Main Square Festival is held for several days in early July within the Vauban Citadel, attracting tens of thousands of attendees and playing host to major acts such as The Chemical Brothers, Coldplay, Imagine Dragons, David Guetta and The Black Eyed Peas. In September 1993, Ipswich (United Kingdom) and Arras became twin towns, and a square in the new Ipswich Buttermarket development was named Arras Square to mark the relationship.[21]. On 6 September 1914, 3,000 soldiers led by General Hans-Jürgen von Arnim barracked within the city and in the citadel. Arras is Pas-de-Calais’ third most populous town after Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer.

On 28 October 2013, Cyclone Christian (also known as the St. Jude storm), one of the strongest extra-tropical cyclones ever recorded, hit Northern Europe including the Arras area.

Average annual precipitation is 742.5 millimetres (29.23 in) with light rainfall evenly distributed throughout the year.


It is a sub-prefecture of the department. The Arras plain lies on a large chalk plateau bordered on the north by the Marqueffles fault, on the southwest by the Artois and Ternois hills, and on the south by the slopes of Beaufort-Blavincourt. Established during the Iron Age by the Gauls,[citation needed] the town of Arras was first known as Nemetocenna, which is believed to have originated from the Celtic word nemeton, meaning 'sacred space. The archaeological sites of Mont-Saint-Vaast in Arras and Biache-Saint-Vaast were Stone Age settlements of the Mousterian culture.

As of 2012[update], the population of Arras is 43,693 for a density of 3,756.92 people per square kilometre (9,880.69 per square mile). Autoroute A1 (A1 highway) is a tollway that connects Arras with Lille and Paris. It used to be extracted to construct the most prestigious buildings and houses of Arras. In 1918, after the end of World War I, most of the townhouses were so severely damaged that they had to be restored to their pre-war conditions. Some years have even witnessed some unusual long periods of harsh summer weather, such as the heat wave of 2003 where temperatures exceeded 30 °C (86 °F) for weeks, reaching 38 °C (100 °F) on some days and rarely even cooling down at night. During the French Revolution, the city of Arras was first presided over by French reformer Dubois de Fosseux, erudite squire, secretary of the Arras district (arrondissement in French) and future president of the Pas-de-Calais department. Clay is mostly found in the lieu-dit of La Terre Potier in the western part of the city. From the 10th century the town was a romance fiefdom of the counts of Flanders. Two buildings in Arras are listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites: The Vimy Memorial is a memorial just north of the town honouring a major World War I battle, the Battle of Vimy Ridge, which marked the first time Canada fielded an entire army of her own. Criques, lacs,sentiers…Chaque région de France est unique.