Amiens is a city and commune in the north of France, 120 km north of Paris. It is the préfecture (capital city) of Sommedépartement. It is considered the Picarde capital of France.  The geometric pattern above is from the labryinth inside the famous Cathedral of Notre Dame of Amiens.

The Paleolithic culture named Acheulean was named for its first identified site, in Saint-Acheul, a suburb of Amiens. Amiens, the Roman Samarobriva, was the central settlement of the Ambiani, one of the principal tribes of Gaul, who were issuing coinage, probably from Amiens, in the first century BCE. By tradition, it was at the gates of Amiens that Saint Martin of Tours, at the time still a Roman soldier, divided his cloak with a naked beggar. Saint Honorius (Honoré) (d. 600 CE) was the seventh bishop of the city.

Amiens was later the capital of Picardy.

During WW2, on 18 February 1944, Nazi occupied Amiens was the site of Operation Jericho, a British operation which freed 258 people by bombing Amiens prison.

The shell of Amiens after World War II.