La Coupole - Centre d'histoire et de mémoire

Situated in the Pas-de-Calais, 5 km from the town of Saint-Omer, La Coupole is a gigantic underground bunker designed by the Nazis, in 1943-1944, to store, prepare and launch the V2 rockets (first craft reaching the stratosphere), the secret weapon with which Hitler intended to destroy London and reverse the course of the war. Houses a Centre of History and Memory, THE DOME you discover, in an impressive, the challenges of total war and the steps of space exploration, resulting paradoxically Technology V2. The Centre also develops the theme of the German occupation from 1940 to 1945 in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais, one of the regions hardest hit during the "dark years". It is through many audiovisual documentaries that you can discover these two major themes of the European collective memory at your own pace, through infrared headphones audio-guide.