The Belfry of Amiens is easy to overlook beside the city's enormous cathedral, but it tells a different story. This is civic architecture rather than church architecture: a tower tied to municipal rights, watchkeeping, bells, and the authority of the town itself.
It is part of the UNESCO-listed Belfries of Belgium and France, a serial site that values these towers as symbols of urban self-government. Visit it while wandering the streets around Place au Fil and Saint-Leu; the stop is brief, but it rounds out Amiens beyond the cathedral.