View over the Perret Tower

The viewpoint over the Perret Tower, in Amiens

This viewpoint offers a fine perspective over the Perret Tower, the emblematic skyscraper of Amiens. The Amiens audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this panorama over the slender silhouette of the tower, major landmark of the town and symbol of its reconstruction.

The perspective over the skyscraper of Amiens

From this viewpoint, you enjoy a fine perspective over the Perret Tower, one of the most visible and most emblematic buildings of Amiens. From the top of its hundred and ten metres, this concrete tower, long one of the tallest of Europe, dominates the town and lets itself be admired from this angle in all its vertical elegance. Its slender and geometric silhouette, work of the architect Auguste Perret in the aftermath of the destructions of the war, contrasts with the roofs and the old buildings of the centre, and testifies to the modernity of the reconstruction. From this viewpoint, the gaze measures the boldness of this work that dared to raise a skyscraper in a provincial town, and that has become, with the cathedral, one of the two major landmarks of the Amiens landscape. The tower is particularly spectacular at nightfall, when its lighting changes its colours. This viewpoint is ideal to grasp the dialogue between historic Amiens and modern Amiens. An urban belvedere and an emblematic perspective, the viewpoint over the Perret Tower is a fine stop of the discovery of Amiens.

What to see

Here you enjoy a fine perspective over the Perret Tower, a concrete skyscraper of a hundred and ten metres long one of the tallest of Europe, whose slender and geometric silhouette, work of Auguste Perret in the aftermath of the war, contrasts with the old roofs of the centre and testifies to the modernity of the reconstruction, spectacular at nightfall. The viewpoint over the Perret Tower is a belvedere of Amiens. It is a fine stop, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The viewpoint over the Perret Tower lies in the heart of Amiens, reachable on foot. It is an open-air viewpoint, freely accessible. The tower is particularly beautiful at nightfall, when its lighting changes its colours.

What can you see from the viewpoint over the Perret Tower in Amiens?

A fine perspective over the Perret Tower, a concrete skyscraper of a hundred and ten metres long one of the tallest of Europe; its slender and geometric silhouette, work of Auguste Perret in the aftermath of the war, contrasts with the old roofs of the centre and testifies to the modernity of the reconstruction, spectacular at nightfall with its coloured lighting.

Where is the viewpoint over the Perret Tower in Amiens?

In the heart of Amiens, in France.