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Where is Lille? Lille in Photos

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Lille is in the very northern part of France adjacent to the border with Belgium. It’s a great location for travel because you are very close by train to Paris, Brussels and London!

For those of you who are unfamiliar with my previous travels to France, this map gives you a chance to see most of the places I’ve lived. My first semester was in Nantes (west coast) in Bretagne (Brittany), second semester was in Aix-en-Provence (not on this map, but southern France near Avignon) in Provence and then I taught English for a year in Calais (not far from Lille!). Of course, I’ve traveled throughout much of France as well.

https://about-france.com/maps.htm

Onto the walking tour of Lille!

Lille has a lot of really unique neighborhoods and for this tour we were in Vieux-Lille (Old Lille). You’ll notice in the pictures an array of architecture, but it’s very influenced by the Flemish style due to the proximity to Belgium. I’ll add some captions to the photos with any interesting facts, but otherwise enjoy!

La Vieille Bourse The Old Stock Exchange-Lille was very much an economic center of Europe historically.
If you go inside the building there are stands of people selling posters, books, etc-this is very similar to les bouquinistes that you find along the Seine in Paris
La Voix du Nord (this, the stock exchange and the statue in the next photo are all in ‘Grand’Place’ )
These little pink guys are not normally here, they are a part of a current modern art exhibit through the city
The fountain/statue in the center of the place (you can’t see the fountain here, but it’s there I promise!-I’ll get pictures on a nicer day!)
This was a seafood shop originally and when the Louis Vitton company bought the building they maintained those historical aspects (notice the fish mural-those are all done in a mosaic tile style)
I need to get a better picture of this church because it is really wild-it’s very gothic and traditional on the sides, but the front is 100% modern-more pics to come on a better weather day!
This building was originally somewhere else and they wanted to tear it down, but in an effort to save it they took it down brick by brick and rebuilt it here!

And that’s it for today!

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