Hauts-de-France, France · Europe
Saint-Omer sits on the route: 5 minutes from Blendecques, 43km from Cap Blanc-Nez.
Saint-Omer is in Hauts-de-France, France, with about 18,000 people. You drive on the right here. The nearest town is Blendecques, about 4 km away.
Saint-Omer (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃t‿omɛʁ] ; West Flemish: Sint-Omaars; Picard: Saint-Onmé) is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France.
It is 68 km (42 mi) west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais, and is located in the province of Artois. The town is named after SaintRead more
Audomar, who brought Christianity to the area.
The canalised section of the river Aa begins at Saint-Omer, reaching the North Sea at Gravelines in northern France. Below its walls, the Aa connects with the Neufossé Canal, which ends at the river Lys.
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Within an hour or so of Saint-Omer: In de Vrede (36 km), Cap Blanc-Nez (43 km), In Flanders Fields Museum (45 km), De Panne Beach (45 km).
The nearest famous roads are Koninklijke Baan Coast Road.
Saint-Omer is in Hauts-de-France, France, about 4 km from Blendecques.
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Full driving guide for France8 notable places within an hour's drive.
cafe
The abbey café opposite Saint-Sixtus monastery in Westvleteren: effectively the only place on earth to reliably drink Westvleteren 12, long rated the world's best beer, at the source with a slab of abbey cheese.
36 km · about 40 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Dazzling white chalk cliffs on the Opal Coast with views across the Channel to England on clear days.
43 km · about 50 min drive
museum
Set in Ypres' rebuilt Cloth Hall, this museum tells the harrowing story of the WWI Western Front trenches.
45 km · about 50 min drive
beach
Belgium's widest sandy beach, famous for land-yachting and bordering the wild Westhoek dunes near the French border.
45 km · about 50 min drive
landmark
A vast memorial arch bearing 54,000 names of the missing, where the Last Post sounds every evening at eight.
46 km · about 55 min drive
landmark
Europe's largest aquarium in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France with a stunning open-ocean tank and conservation mission.
47 km · about 55 min drive
scenic viewpoint
The closest point in France to England, a windswept headland of cliffs, lighthouse and migrating birds.
49 km · about 55 min drive
museum
A luminous glass-and-steel satellite of the Louvre rising from a former coal-mining town.
52 km · about 60 min drive
April to October
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