Abbeville

Abbeville is a city of 24 thousand¹ located along the lower course of the Somme River, in the Somme Department in the Picardie (Picardy) Region of France. A belfry there is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site honoring "Belfries of Belgium and France."² Most of the city was destroyed during World War II. Perhaps the tallest structures today are the water tower (338 feet) and Mont Caubert Telecommunications Tower (328 feet).³

External references

Bell tower at Abbeville, Somme Department, Picardie (Picardy) Region, France

Footnotes

1. Figure for 2010 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_communes_in_France_with_over_20,000_inhabitants, accessed 2/5/2015.
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belfries_of_Belgium_and_France, accessed 2/5/2015. It is probably the bell tower now housing a museum according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbeville, accessed 4/23/2015.
3. Emporis.com, accessed 4/23/2015. These two are the only buildings listed there for this city.