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Military Museum Attractions In Cappelle-la-Grande

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The Cappelle-la-Grande Open is a chess tournament held every year in Cappelle-la-Grande, France, since 1985. It has become over the years one of the largest opens in the world, but in terms of average player strength slightly behind the Gibraltar Chess Festival, the Aeroflot Open of Moscow or the Qatar Masters Open. The 26th edition of 2010 had 652 participants, with 82 Grandmasters and 61 International Masters from 57 countries. The tournament is usually played in the second half of February with an accelerated Swiss-system format in nine rounds. It is organized by the chess club L'Echiquier Cappellois and is played in the Palais des Arts of Cappelle-...
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Military Museum Attractions In Cappelle-la-Grande

  • 1. La Coupole Saint Omer
    La Coupole , also known as the Coupole d'Helfaut-Wizernes and originally codenamed Bauvorhaben 21 or Schotterwerk Nordwest , is a Second World War bunker complex in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, about 5 kilometres from Saint-Omer, and some 14.4 kilometers south-southeast from the less developed Blockhaus d'Eperlecques V-2 launch installation in the same area. It was built by the forces of Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1944 to serve as a launch base for V-2 rockets directed against London and southern England, and is the earliest known precursor to modern underground missile silos still in existence. Constructed in the side of a disused chalk quarry, the most prominent feature of the complex is an immense concrete dome, to which its modern name refers. It was built above ...
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