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<< Text Pages >> Underground City of Naours - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in France in Picardie:Somme (80)

Submitted by Sunny100 on Monday, 27 August 2012  Page Views: 5291

Multi-periodSite Name: Underground City of Naours Alternative Name: Souterraine de Naours, Les Grottes de Naours
Country: France
NOTE: This site is 3.189 km away from the location you searched for.

Département: Picardie:Somme (80) Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Naours
Latitude: 50.034244N  Longitude: 2.281111E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Quarry in Picardie:Somme (80)

The underground city is 33 metres (106 feet) beneath the town of Naours, a few miles to the west of the N25 road at Talmas. Amiens is 18 kms to the south. There are many caves, grottos, passageways and some chapels that together form an underground city or souterraine, in what is now something of a tourist site. Guided tours are available which take upto 1 hour.

First inhabited in the 3rd-4th centuries AD, and again by Vikings in the 9th century AD. The place was re-discovered in 1887 by the local priest, Abbot Danicourt. In one of the chapels (Rotonde de la Sainte Vierge) a statue of the Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus is located high up and perched on a rocky ledge. During the 2nd world war soldiers lived in the underground caves.

For more information, including background information and photographs, see the Journal of Antiquities' entry for Underground City of Naours, Picardie, Somme, France. The Journal also gives a link to a blog site with more photographs - visit Geoff's Pages, "The Underground City". The Journal adds their is an admission fee to pay, and guided tours are available.
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Re: Underground City of Naours by Sunny100 on Monday, 27 August 2012
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