Exceptional opening of the Ferme Nord

Name: Apertura excepcional de la Granja Norte
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Zuydcoote

As part of the European Heritage Days, the Ferme Nord opens its doors to the public to propose visits, exhibitions, animations, ...

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

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Communauté urbaine de Dunkerque

As part of the 2022 edition of the European Heritage Days that will take place on 17 and 18 September, the Ferme Nord opens its doors to the public to propose visits (departure every hour), exhibitions, animations, but also to present local producers.
Free entry!

About the location

Zuydcoote

chemin privé, zuydcoote

Nord
Hauts-de-France

The Sanatorium of Zuydcoote (now Zuydcoote Maritime Hospital) was built under the impetus of Georges Vancauwenberghe, mayor of Saint-Pol sur Mer, and was inaugurated on 25 July 1910\. It included a state-of-the-art farm at the time, the North Farm, which provided most of the food needs of Sanatorium residents. Built in 1910, on the fringes of the Dewulf Dune, the North Farm together with the latter constitutes a remarkable architectural and heritage complex, of Flemish neo-classical architectural style, almost unique in Western Europe. It is an industrial farm in red bars, red and white brick.
Composed of a dozen buildings distributed on the sides of a quadrilateral built of 100 m wide by 170 m long surrounded by a ditch and pastures, it was specialized in animal husbandry and formed, with the farms South and South-West, an agricultural complex that is efficient and exemplary from the point of view of hygiene. The use and number of the various buildings: stables, barns, barns, sheepfol