A Chapter of History about the Somme
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Somme Battlefield's network
Would you like to invest in a tourism project in the Somme? The Somme Departmental Council, is looking for someone to open a new enterprise in this beautiful home at Thiepval. Applications must be submitted before 10 May 2018.
A new interpretation centre telling the story of Australia's experience of the Western Front in France and Belgium during the First World War opened in April 2018.
The village of Villers-Bretonneux opened a museum on the top floor of the school in the 1970s which has just been entirely renovated.
A bid to list the cemeteries and memorials of the Western Front as UNESCO World Heritage was officially made in January 2017
Would you like to invest in a tourism project in the Somme? The Somme Departmental Council, is looking for someone to open a new enterprise in this beautiful home at Thiepval. Applications must be submitted before 10 May 2018.
On Sunday 25 March, commemorations were held in the Somme to mark the 100th anniversary of the Inter-Allied Single Command, established in Doullens on 26 March 1918.
With the help of hiking, biking and nature trails through its beautiful valley, the Conseil départemental de la Somme invites you to discover an often unexplored part of the Somme Battlefields!
The Somme Departmental Council has always placed great importance upon involving the younger generations in the commemorations of the Battle of the Somme and teaching them about their own local history during the Great War.
The New Thiepval Museum themed on the battles of the Somme and the Missing was opened on 2nd June 2016 by the French Minister of State for Veterans and Remembrance and the President of the Somme Departmental Council.
