In the heart of Nord - Pas de Calais area (4 million inhabitants), Douaisis profits from a strategic and privileged geographical position.

Surrounded of Lille, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Arras, Lens, Douai is the center of important and varied transportation roads, offering direct accesses to the principal markets of the Paris area, Northern Europe, and the North-East.

A crossroads of motorway axes:

A1: Paris-Lille-Antwerp-Amsterdam

A2: Paris-Valenciennes-Brussels

A21: Douai-Valenciennes

A25-A23: Dunkirk-Lille-Valenciennes

A26: Calais-Rheims-Dijon

Connections fast with the great European Business Districts:

35 mn of Lille

1h40 of Brussels

2h45 of Rotterdam

1h30 of the Channel tunnel

2h15 of Paris

1h45 of Antwerp

3h10 of Amsterdam

A service road railway of quality:

Paris (1h05 by TGV): 13 connections per day including 6 direct TGV

Lyon (3h15 by TGV)

Bordeaux (5hO1 by TGV)

Marseille (6h12 by TGV)

Rennes (4h00 by TGV)

Montpellier (5h54 by TGV)

Lille-Londres (2h01 in Eurostar)

Lille-Bruxelles (38 mn by TGV ou Thalys).

International airports in the vicinity:

Lille-Lesquin with 20 mn

Brussels-Zaventem with 1h15

Roissy-Charles de Gaulle with 1h45

Amsterdam-Shiphol with 3h10

London with 2h00

City has two giants (Gayants), 

oldest of the area.

Douai, city born of the river Scarpe, developed thanks to an intense commercial activity.

city draping and of corn in the Middle Ages, it becomes university in XVIème century.

French since 1667, it is parliamentary and military city.

The industrial revolution allows the coal mining. Douai was the seat of the Collieries of Nord - Pas-de-Calais at the XXème century.

Sit of the court of sat North, Douai shelters a rich person historical and monumental inheritance: around the channel of Scarpe, is the town hall of 15th, the belfry of 14th with its remarkable chime, as well as Chartreuse transformed today into museum.