Dunkirk Dunkerque, France
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At departure or passage at this port
Azamara Club Cruises (1 Cruises)
Oceania Cruises (4 Cruises)
Regent Seven Seas Cruises (8 Cruises)
Seven Seas Mariner
5 Cruises
Frequently Asked Questions
In the port zone, about three kilometres from the centre. Cruise lines almost always provide a shuttle, dropping passengers near the place Jean-Bart. From there everything is walkable.
The Dunkirk 1940 Museum to understand Operation Dynamo, then the belfry and the Citadelle quarter. If time remains, the walk to Malo-les-Bains shifts the mood entirely. All three in one call is too much.
Operation Dynamo: in the spring of 1940, hundreds of vessels, from trawlers to warships, evacuated a surrounded army from these beaches to England. The town was rebuilt afterwards, following the bombing.
A day-by-day account of Operation Dynamo, inside former coastal fortifications: the columns of soldiers on the sand, the crossings under bombardment, the improvised armada from every English port. Maps, uniforms and testimony make it concrete, far from the cinema version. Allow one to two hours.
A brick landmark inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list, a few streets from the place Jean-Bart. A steady marker for sailors and walkers alike, it is the rallying point around which the town rebuilt itself after the war.
A museum housed in a former tobacco warehouse in the historic Citadelle quarter. Models, instruments and accounts tell the story of shipbuilding, deep-sea fishing and the industrial past that made the fortune of Jean Bart's city.
Yes. Malo-les-Bains, about twenty minutes' walk from the centre, lines up its Art Nouveau villas facing a long sand beach, with cafés and terraces on the seawall. It is the same shore where everything happened in 1940: the contrast is striking.
A contemporary art museum with distinctive architecture, on the way to Malo-les-Bains, holding works from the 1940s to the 1980s in a sculpture garden. A good stop en route to the beach.
Reasonably, thanks to the beach at Malo-les-Bains and the Port Museum, which is more tangible than the 1940 museum for young children. Getting in from the terminal requires the shuttle: this is not a call where you step straight into town.
The euro, cards accepted everywhere. French is spoken; with Belgium and England close by, English and Dutch turn up more often here than elsewhere in France.
