Cambrai Shopping - France
The main square Place Astide Briand with the Hotel de Ville is the principal shopping area. Lovers of fine cheeses should try <Torne de Cambrai>. Traditionally washed down with beer, this cheese is only made at the Ferme Sauvage in Fontaine notre Dame.
Sweets are a particular speciality of this area. Betises de Cambrai refreshing and an aid to digestion. According to legend, a confectioner's scatterbrained assistant committed a <betise> (a silly mistake) and created the famous boiled sweet accidentally.
Betises de Cambrai Despinoy
1519 Route Nationale,
59400 Fontaine-Notre Dame
T: 00 33 (0)3 27 83 57 57
Markets:
Christmas markets 13th - 23rd
December in the Chapelle des ensuites, with an exhibition of 70 cribs from around the world.
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