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Notre-Dame de Lorette National Necropolis

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    August 14, 2023

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    It is the largest French military cemetery and a First World War memorial where more than 100,000 French and German soldiers died in 1915. The cemetery covers 25 hectares and contains more than 40,000 graves, some of which are individual graves.
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    April 9, 2021

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    Inaugurated in 1925, the necropolis commemorates the thousands of combatants who died on the hill of Lorette between October 1914 and September 1915; it involves :

    a military cemetery where 40,058 bodies rest in individual graves and in eight ossuaries;
    the "lantern tower", 52 m high;
    the "chapel-basilica", of Romano-Byzantine type, 46 m long and 14 m wide.
    You will also find the Ring of Memory, a memorial on which are engraved the names of 579,606 soldiers of all nationalities who died in French Flanders and Artois between 1914 and 1918. It was inaugurated on November 11, 2014.
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    April 25, 2023

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    Space of respect and contemplation in this site of N.D. de Lorette adjoining the Ring of Memory. From this place start road circuits, mountain bike paths and also below the Eurovelo 5.
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    1. Circuit des Hauts-Lieux de la Grande Guerre en Artois

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    Moderate road ride. Good fitness required. Some segments of this route may be unpaved and difficult to ride.

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