Notre-Dame-de-Lorette & Ring of Remembrance
Nécropole nationale de Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
France's largest military cemetery, with some 40,000 graves, and the nearby Ring of Remembrance, inscribed with the names of 580,000 First World War dead.
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Hill was the battlefield of the Artois offensive of 1914–1915. It is now France's largest military cemetery, where some 40,000 soldiers lie buried. The site includes a neo-Byzantine church and a memorial tower shaped like a lighthouse. The International Ring of Remembrance, completed in 2014, is an elliptical metal wall inscribed, regardless of nationality and in alphabetical order, with the names of about 580,000 people who died in northern France. Admission is free. It is located in Ablain-Saint-Nazaire, about 8 km from Vimy.
Opening hours
Cemetery open all day; memorial loop about 09:00–18:00 (earlier closing in winter)
Nearby sights
- Canadian National Vimy Memorial
- Louvre-Lens
- Arras Grand-Place & Belfry
- Wellington Quarry
- Wazemmes Market
- Citadel of Lille & Bois de Boulogne
- Lille Zoo
- Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille