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Overview

Capital of the Hauts-de-France r茅gion, Lille may be France's most underrated metropolis. Recent decades have seen the country's fourth-largest city (by greater urban area) transform from an industrial centre into a glittering cultural and commercial hub. Highlights include its enchanting old town with magnificent French and Flemish architecture, renowned art museums, stylish shopping, outstanding cuisine, a nightlife scene bolstered by 67,000 university students, and some 1600 designers in its environs.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • Palais des Beaux Arts

    Palais des Beaux Arts

    Lille

    Inaugurated in 1892, Lille's illustrious Fine Arts Museum claims France's second-largest collection after Paris' Mus茅e du Louvre. Its cache of sublime鈥�

  • La Piscine Mus茅e d'Art et d'Industrie

    La Piscine Mus茅e d'Art et d'Industrie

    Lille

    An art deco municipal swimming pool built between 1927 and 1932 is now an innovative museum showcasing fine arts (paintings, sculptures, drawings) and鈥�

  • Wazemmes

    Wazemmes

    Lille

    For an authentic taste of grassroots Lille, head to the ethnically diverse, family-friendly quartier populaire (working-class quarter) of Wazemmes, 1.3km鈥�

  • Citadelle

    Citadelle

    Lille

    At the northwestern end of bd de la Libert茅, this massive, star-shaped fortress was designed by renowned 17th-century French military architect Vauban鈥�

  • Mus茅e de l'Hospice Comtesse

    Mus茅e de l'Hospice Comtesse

    Lille

    Within a red-brick 15th- and 17th-century poorhouse, this absorbing museum features ceramics, earthenware wall tiles, religious art, 17th- and 18th鈥�

  • Le Tripostal

    Le Tripostal

    Lille

    Splashed with street art murals, this cavernous red-brick postal sorting centre was transformed into an arts centre in 2004, when Lille was the European鈥�

  • Mus茅e d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art Brut 鈥� LaM

    Mus茅e d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art Brut 鈥� LaM

    Lille

    Colourful, playful and just plain weird works of modern and contemporary art by masters such as Braque, Calder, L茅ger, Mir贸, Modigliani and Picasso are鈥�

  • H么tel de Ville

    H么tel de Ville

    Lille

    Built between 1924 and 1932, Lille's city hall is topped by a slender, 104m-high belfry that was designated a Unesco-listed monument in 2004. Climbing 100鈥�

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