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Lille, joie de vivre
Lille
invites you the whole year round: exhibitions, museums, shows, boutiques, restaurants...leisure - shopping - going out
- forum enterprise and future
- student exhibition
- marriage exhibition
- exposition of Tiepolo in the museum of Fine Arts- Tourissima - flowercarpet
- Paris-Roubaix- The Montgolfiades - international athletics meeting in Villeneuve d'Ascq
- festival of excellence (market with regional products)
- festival of Lille- manège exhibition on the fields of Mars - 1st weekend: street-fair of Lille
- semi-marathon
- 3rd weekend: heritage day- big circus festival of Lille - Jazz festival (Tourcoing) - Christmas fair
- end of year festivities
- fireworks, spinning wheal on the Market Square General de Gaulle Christmas music- national orchestra of Lille
- theatre of the north
Tennis, football, swimming, bowling, biliard, cinema.
EXHIBITIONS
Lille has the second biggest museum of France after the Louvre. With the Palace for Fine Arts, reopened after an important renovation, exceptionnel paintings can be shown in the new exposition room of 22000 m². An adjusted underground space also exhibits 15 reliefmaps of north Eruopean cities.
The museum of Natural History exhibits its rich collections of thousands of birds and mammals.
L'Hospice Comtesse, founded by Jeanne de Flandre in 1237. We amaze ourselves over the estate of Flanders and the excellent collection of musical instruments. The chapel and the sickwards are also worth a detour.
"Le petit Lillois de Paris", the birthhouse of General de Gaulle, shows his life. With the many exhibited objects, are his christening-robe and his car (a DS Citoen) with trace of bullets of the petit Clamart attack.
Lille Grand Palais, "nouveau morceau de ville" of 70 acres, consists of 3 types of activities: professional exhibitions - congresses - spectacles.
SHOPPING
Loitering through the old town...Everything begins at the Palais Rihour, settlements of an old palace from the 15th century, that reminds us of the ducs of Bourgundie. It's one of the only Lille settlements in flamboyant gotic architecture. Outside, on the place Rihour, a glass piramide eluminates an underground station.
La rue de la vieille Comédie reminds us of the passage of Voltaire in 1741.
La place du Général de Gaulle, stays with its numerous terraces, that are full to the brim day and night, the meeting place for the people of Lille.
La place du Théatre offers an overflow of extraordinairy architecture: the opera in neo-classic - the chambre of commerce in neo-flemish style - le rang du Beauregard from the end of the 17th century.
La rue de la Grande Chaussée is one of the most elegant streets of the city with it's luxury shops and it's haute couture shops such as Hermès, Louis Vuitton…
La rue des Chats Bossus, with in number 3, one of the most pretty fishrestaurants of France, "l'Huîtrière", with an art-déco interior of 1928. La rue Esquiermoise, with the 'temple des douceurs', confectioner's shop Meert, the oldest confectioner of Lille dating from 1839.
Visit of a technological site: Euralille
The station Lille Europe, a show-case of 400m² long, a glass front of 15 metres high houses the TGV. The adjoining underground station unites all the means of transportation. Metro Val, TGV, parking and highspeed trail.The top of La tour du Crédit Lyonnais is made of metal and glass, the bottom part consists of stone and glass.
Tour Lille Europe and l'Atrium (25 floors), a mixture of concrete, metal squares, cables and glass offers it's services to companies.
Centre Euralille, more than 130 boutiques, 7 average areas, a hypermarket and restaurants are devided over 2 floors.
The beaches in the north. The beaches of fine sand, the preserved dunes, a considerable historical patrimonium and the Flemish Opalcoast offer pleasure. You can visit the strengthened towns Gravelines or Bergues and the portmuseum of Dunnkerque, the 3rd port of France.
Le Touquet Paris Plage is a seaside resort with authentic charm. Let yourselve be seduced by the light and the green of hotel Holiday Inn Resort, close to the shopping streets and the casino's. Work and pleasure go together in this whole, complete with sportfacilities. Covered pool, jacuzzi, tennis, fitnessroom, table tennis, biliard and cycling.
Bruges is a city with multiples faces, multiculturel that reunites the lovers of the whole world. Easy access, only one hour from Lille. Bruges can be visited on foot, by horse or by boat. It's multiple walking streets permit you to wander around in the midst of small romantique places with statues of flemish painters such as Jan Van Eyck. The numerous museums reunite the work of different times, from Baroque and Renaissance to the neo-classicisme of the 18th and 19th century. When fatigue sets in, allow yourselve a priviliged moment on the canals of Bruges. Your romantic stay can not go smoodly without the Relais Oud Huis Amsterdam, an idyllic place with an uncomparable charm situated in the heart of the city opposite a lovely canal.
Le centre historique minier de Lewarde. This museum presents 3 centuries of minehistory in the region Nord-Pas de Calais. Former mineworkers guide you through the 450 metres long renovated galaries. They tell you about the working- and living conditions of the men and women in the mines.
Walking in the hills. From the Mont de Cats to the Mont Noir, the Flemish countryside offers you a diversity of landscapes. The mills unfold their sails around the hills, numerous walkingpaths bring you from village to village.