Top Dog-Friendly Attractions in Calais

The Flemish-Renaissance Hôtel de Ville (1911-1923) crowned by a 75 m belfry, inscribed UNESCO World Heritage in 2005 as part of the Belfries of Belgium and France series. The square in front holds Auguste Rodin's bronze Les Bourgeois de Calais (1895), one of the most famous public sculptures of the 19th century, depicting the six city notables who in 1347 offered themselves as hostages to Edward III of England to spare Calais during the Hundred Years' War. The belfry tower climb is free; lift admits assistance dogs only. The square is fully dog-friendly year-round.

A rare 1214 medieval watchtower (39 m), one of the few surviving structures of pre-Renaissance Calais, standing in the Place d'Armes opposite the former Église Notre-Dame de Calais. Used for centuries to watch for ships, fires and English raids, the tower marks the historic heart of the original walled town. The square at the base is fully dog-friendly year-round; the tower interior is not normally open to the public.

The iconic 51 m black-and-white striped Calais lighthouse (1848) standing in the Courgain Maritime fishermen's quarter at the eastern edge of the seafront, with a 271-step climb to the lantern room and a 360° panorama over Calais, the ferry port, the Plage de Calais and the Dover white cliffs on clear days. The base esplanade is fully dog-friendly year-round; the climb itself admits assistance dogs only.