Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
department
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Government and military
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in the
Hauts-de-France
Hauts-de-France (; pcd, Heuts-d'Franche; , also ''Upper France'') is the northernmost region of France, created by the territorial reform of French regions in 2014, from a merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy. Its prefecture is Lille. The ...
region of
France
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Pittefaux is situated northeast of Boulogne, at the junction of the D232 and D242 roads and by the banks of the river Wimereux.
Population
Places of interest
* The church of St.Louis, dating from the nineteenth century.
* The seventeenth-century chateau of Souverain-Moulin.
* Ruins of a 14th-century castle.
* Two 17th-century
manorhouse
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