Parc Astérix

38km/24mi north of Paris on the A 1 motorway, in the département of Oise, is the access road to Parc Astérix, which was opened in 1989. Here, within an area of 18 hectares/45 acres, are five different magical worlds. The busy Via Antiqua leads to the village of Astérix, home of the comic-strip hero of that name and his friend Obélix. Beyond this are the Roman City, with the "Ave Caesar" roundabout, the Delphinarium and the Route de Paris, which, in a distance of 200m/220yds, covers a thousand years of history down to the age of the cinema.