Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin Remarkable as a landscape shaped over three centuries of coal extraction from the 1700s to the 1900s, the site consists of 109 separate components over 120,000 ha.

The highway and Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine Tunnel is closed in both directions from 11 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday and again from 11 p.m. Saturday to 9 a.m. Sunday. Southbound, the closure starts ...