Events

Cérémonie officielle de la Libération

Commemorative items (military / souvenirs)

ABBEVILLE

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5:45 pm: overflight by planes from the Abbeville airfield users? association (Amicale des usagers de l?aérodrome d?Abbeville)

5.45 pm / 6 pm: ceremonies begin at the Monument, route des Polonais.

Place Bonaparte: a pedestrian procession will start from rue Saint-Vulfran, with flag bearers, military troops, a gendarmerie delegation, fire department and young fire brigade delegations, the Global Defense and Security class, officials in military vehicles, 4 GMCs and the Orchestre d?Harmonie d?Abbeville, a 35-strong orchestra.
Residents in period costume will also be able to join the procession.

6:45 pm: Monument to deportees. Wreath-laying ceremony, Place du Pilori.

19h / 19h15 : Monument aux Morts (overflight by planes from the Amicale des usagers
of the Abbeville aerodrome, raising of the Polish and French colors, European anthem
by the Orchestre d?Harmonie d?Abbeville, and a text read by some forty
children from the Poulies school, bagpipes, wreath-laying and national anthems).

7.45pm: procession moves to Place Clemenceau, followed by military vehicles

8:15pm: speeches in front of the Hôtel d?Émonville garden entrance

Signing of the twinning agreement with the Polish town of ?wiecie

Prices

Payment methods

  • Cash

Date and time

Open on 03/09/2024
  • Mardi:from 17h45

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