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The Audomarois Marsh is a territory, which doesn't look like any other else. With a 3700 ha surface, it's the only Marsh still cultivated in France. Its luxuriant and diversified nature offers numerous possibilities of activities for sportsmen, nature lovers, birdwatchers and other people who are keen on historic heritages or also for visitors who just look for calm and quietness.

Flora and fauna are exceptional and extremely varied there. We count 300 kinds of different plants, among which 40 of them are protected and more than 200 different birds among which 90 regularly breed in the Marsh.

This thousand year old soft cheese, with its rind washed in rain water, soon became the king of cheeses after becoming the cheese of Kings. From the 16th century it has graced the table of the mighty: Charles Quint, Philippe II of Spain and later Louis XIV, who chose Maroilles as their favourite cheese.