Etaples

Etaples or Etaples-sur-Mer  is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. It is a fishing and leisure port on the Canche river.Etaples takes its name from having been a medieval staple port (stapal in Old Dutch), from which word the Old French word Estaples derives.

 As a port it was part of the administrative and economic complex centred on Montreuil after access from the sea to that town was restricted by silting.The Rope Walk houses the tourist information office, the Museum of the Miniature (models etc.), the Maréis (all aspects of sea fishing).Etaples Museum of Seafaring: mainly the history of etapleois fishing.