Great tourism harbour, Calais has 78 000 inhabitants. After being British and then Spanish, the city becomes definitively French in 1598, after the Vervins Treaty. The town is celebrity by its worldwide exported lace and by the bourgeois de Calais.

The town commissioned this monument in 1884 to the sculptor Rodin for celebrating the surrender in 1347 of Eustache de Saint-Pierre and five burgesses to the King of England Edward III. This sculpture was inaugurated the 3 June 1895. Bronze melted down, the statue is grounding without any base, standing first on the place of Arms in 1924, and then in front of the Town Hall after the Second World War.

This works is considered as an essential pole in the history of the sculpture, especially for the expressive quality of the group. Many editions were done and installed in many worldwide towns (Copenhagen, Bale, London, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Brussels, Tokyo, Washington).

Harbour with its breakwater, Calais say welcome to a lot of ferries.

Louis Blériot flew across the Manche from Calais too.

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