Underground City at Naours
5 rue des Carrières, 80260 Naours Driving directions
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The village of Naours, remarkable for its cob architecture, is mainly renowned for its incredible network of caves, dug out of the neighbouring limestone plateau. These shelters, of which there are many in Picardy and part of Artois, are called creuttes, boves or muches, meaning "hideout" in the local dialect. The underground city could shelter several thousand people and their livestock and has 2km of galleries, a square, 300 rooms, three chapels, cowsheds and a bakery with ovens.

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  • From €360
    Gîte du Château
    Disappointing 4.5
    837 m - 5 Rue du Château, 80260 Naours
  • From €57
    charmant loft à la campagne,Hauts de France ,Somme
    Fabulous 8.6
    7.78 Km - 3 Rue du 11 Novembre, 80260 Rubempré
  • From €44
    Chambres à la campagne au nord d' Amiens avec salle de bain privative
    Suberb 9.2
    7.86 Km - 5 Impasse du chateau, 80260 Rubempré

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