MAISON DU TOURISME DE FRÉVENT

The Maison du Tourisme de Frévent has taken up residence in one of the most beautiful monuments of the town: the Wintenberger Museum Mill, former wheat mill of the counts of Saint-Pol. The Maison du Tourisme teams will be happy to inform and guide you in your discovery of Frévent and its surroundings, whose history is as rich as it is eventful. Its glorious past dates back to 1218, when the town was recognized by the Counts of Saint-Pol who were buried in the Cercamp Abbey. Two centuries later, Charles VIII did the same and granted Frévent the right to organize fairs. Having become an industrial town with its wool and linen spinning mills and its workers' housing estates, Frévent and its castle of Cercamp served as the headquarters of Marshal Foch in 1915 and was very badly hit by the bombings during the Second World War. It was during the "phoney war" that the inhabitants of Frévent made themselves known through their acts of courage and resistance by helping prisoners and resistance fighters escape and by sending vital information on German installations to London. Today, Frévent has become the first town in the Haute-Canche, gateway to the famous route of flowered villages. Come and learn more at the Maison du Tourisme!