Jules Verne wrote Around the World in 80 Days in Amiens, but he died there in 1905 after just the first two editions of the Tour de France had taken place and, consequently, wasn’t able to witness the first finish in Picardy’s capital, which was won by André Leducq in 1932. The town became the preserve of sprinters thanks to victories by Rudi Altig (1962), André Darrigade in 1964, Mario Cipollini in 1999, and André Greipel in 2015. It remained so when Dylan Groenewegen triumphed in 2018.
- Stage town for the 14th time
- Prefecture of the department of Somme (80)
- Population: 134,000 (Amiénois and Amiénoises); 182,000 within the 39 communes comprising the Amiens Metropolitan Area; 5,996,000 within the Hauts-de-France region
