The best way to discover the town and the coastline is by cycling through the dunes covered with "oyats" (a type of grass used to stabilize dunes) and pines. The road leads to an amazing viewpoint over the Canche estuary and the Dannes-Cami..

A semicircular building with a sculpted frame, brown ceramic stalls, and a huge arch bestriding the road: a real Nordic market which one can imagine seething with life!

This beach provides a 12km stretch of fine sand as far as the mouth of the River Authie, at low tide the sea is about 1km from the top of the beach. A cliff-road takes you to the pleasure port and to the North sea base of Le Touquet point.

This 1905 development is bristling with turrets and crenellations. It has a terraced balcony on the first floor.

All the villas have highly original designs, such as the villa cendrillon (1923) with its slanted roof, the villa La Wallonne, the villa des Mutins (1925) with its gabled façade and the villa Le Roy d'Ys (1903) with its wood panelling.

Le Touquet immediately brings to mind smartly dressed women in crinoline dresses and vain smartly dressed men in boaters proudly adjusting their waxed moustaches. This Avenue is bordered by quasi Art déco boutiques and is home to prestigious building..

Just before the archway of the covered market you will see the villa Le Castel at No. 50 (1904) which by design is a blend of Neo-medieval and Art nouveau.

Rebuilt in 1949, this lighthouse has a hexagonal shaft with curved sides.

Embellished by gardens, the sea-wall finishes at the the land yacht nautical centre (Base nautique de char à voile) and the Seawater cure Institute.

On display here are a number of works by artists from the Etaples school (1880-1914), with canvasses by Le Sidaner and a small contemporary art section.

It was Alphonse Daloz, a notary by profession, who took the initiative to create this 800 ha forest, whose sea pine, (silver) birch, alder and poplar trees protect a mix of 200 Anglo-Norman or modern villas from the wind. The wood and the residential..