20 Sights in Lille, France (with Map and Images)
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List of cities in FranceSightseeing Tours in Lille1. Fontaine Wallace
Wallace Fountains are public drinking fountains named after, financed by and roughly designed by Sir Richard Wallace. The final design and sculpture is by Wallace's friend Charles-Auguste Lebourg. They are large cast-iron sculptures scattered throughout the city of Paris, France, mainly along the most-frequented sidewalks. A great aesthetic success, they are recognized worldwide as one of the symbols of Paris. A Wallace Fountain can be seen outside the Wallace Collection in London, the gallery that houses the works of art collected by Sir Richard Wallace and the first four Marquesses of Hertford.
2. Maison Folie de Lille Wazemmes
The Maison Folie Wazemmes is a cultural facility of the City of Lille, opened on the occasion of the Lille 2004 event, European Capital of Culture. This former textile mill was rehabilitated by the Dutch agency Nox and the architect Lars Spuybroek accompanied by Ducks Scéno is a French company based in Villeurbanne specializing in scenography and museography. for the design of the scenography of the 250-seat auditorium and the recording studio and Flanders Analyzes for the acoustic studies, to become in 2004, the house Folie Wazemmes.
3. Ancienne église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine
The Church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine is a church located in the Vieux-Lille district of Lille. Nicknamed "the big Madeleine" because of its stocky silhouette and baroque dome. It was classified as a historic monument in October 1965. It has been disused for worship since 1989 and has been transformed into an exhibition space. In 1991, the former chapel of the Discalced Carmelites became the parish church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine.
4. Lille Zoo
The Parc zoologique de Lille, also known locally as the Parc zoologique du Bois de Boulogne, is a French zoological park located in the Hauts-de-France region, in the Vauban Esquermes district of the city of Lille, at the foot of the citadel. Opened in 1950, and owned by the City of Lille, it now presents some 450 animals of 110 different species on 3.5 hectares. It has been led by Sophie Dardalhon since March 2020.
5. La Malterie
La Malterie is a Lille association located in the Wazemmes district. She works in the fields of contemporary creative music and visual arts. It is a support structure for research and artistic experimentation and includes workspaces, places of dissemination, resource center specialized on the professional status of visual artists. This site is served by the metro station Porte des Postes.
6. Chapelle Notre-Dame du Rosaire
The Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire is located in the Saint-Maurice Pellevoisin district of Lille. It is a chapel, of modern type, dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary and in which is practiced the Tridentine rite also called "extraordinary form of the Roman rite". It belongs to the Priory of the Holy Cross, itself dependent on the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (SSPX).
7. Vestiges de l'ancienne collégiale Saint-Pierre

The collegiate church of Saint-Pierre was a former large church located in Old Lille that punctuated the religious life of Lille for nearly 750 years. After being seriously damaged during the siege of the city by the Austrians in 1792, its destruction began in 1794. Its crypt, the only vestige that remains today, was classified as a historical monument in 1971.
8. Palais Rihour
The Palais Rihour is a building located on Place Rihour in Lille, in the Nord department of France. This is all that remains of a palace built in the fifteenth century by the Dukes of Valois-Burgundy, de facto rulers of the Burgundian State. The building's guard room houses the city's tourist office. It was classified as a historical monument in 1875.
9. Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-la-Réconciliation
The Notre-Dame-de-Réconciliation chapel is a chapel located at 28 rue de Canteleu, in the Vauban Esquermes district of Lille. Erected during the first half of the thirteenth century at the request of Countess Joanna of Constantinople, it is the oldest sanctuary in Lille. It was listed in the inventory of historical monuments in December 1926.
Wikipedia: Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Réconciliation de Lille (FR)
10. Église Saint-Maurice
The Église Saint-Maurice is a church on Rue Pierre-Mauroy, in the historic centre of Lille, northern France. Its construction began at the end of the 14th century and completed at the end of the 19th century, and it was extended over more than four centuries. A hall church in the Gothic style, it was made a monument historique in 1914.
11. Église du Sacré-Cœur
The Church of the Sacred Heart is a church, located at the crossroads of Rue Nationale and Rue Solférino, in the Lille-Centre district of Lille. Erected during the last decades of the nineteenth century, it contains a set of eleven stained glass windows classified as a historical monument since 1983.
12. Église Saint-Étienne
The Church of Saint-Étienne, Lille is a Roman Catholic church located on the rue de l'Hôpital Militaire in Lille, France. It has been classed as a monument historique since 1987 and is dedicated to Saint Stephen. It is one of the largest Jesuit churches in France.
13. Palais des Beaux-Arts
The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is a municipal museum of art and antiques located on Place de la République in Lille, Hauts-de-France. It is one of the largest museums in France and the largest museum of fine arts, outside Paris, in number of works exhibited.
14. Statue de Faidherbe
The monument to General Faidherbe is an equestrian statue of French General Louis Faidherbe, located in Lille. Designed by Antonin Mercié, cast by Thièbaut frères, it was inaugurated in 1896 on Place Richebé and was listed as a historical monument in 1975.
15. Lille Cathedral
Lille Cathedral, the Basilica of Notre Dame de la Treille, is a Roman Catholic church and basilica in Lille, France, and the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Lille. An example of Gothic Revival architecture, the cathedral is considered a national monument.
16. Musée d'Histoire Naturelle et de Géologie
The Natural History Museum of Lille is a French natural history museum located rue de Bruxelles, in the historic university district of Lille. Inaugurated in 1822 in the former City Hall of Lille, it has been located rue de Bruxelles since 1896.
Wikipedia: Musée d'histoire naturelle de Lille (FR), Website
17. Musée de l'Hospice Comtesse
The Hospice Comtesse or Hospice Notre-Dame is a 17th-century hospice on Rue de la Monnaie in the Old Town area of Lille, France, first built in 1236 by Joan, Countess of Flanders. It is now a museum on the history of the hospice.
18. Temple protestant
The Protestant Temple of Lille is a religious building located on the Place du Temple in Lille. The parish is a member of the United Protestant Church of France. This site is served by the République - Beaux-Arts metro station.
19. La Noble Tour
The noble tower is an old bastion of the ramparts of Lille and is the last standing vestige of the city's medieval fortifications. It was built under Philippe Le Hardi (Duke of Burgundy and husband of Marguerite III of Flanders.
20. Belfry

The belfry of Lille City Hall, inaugurated in 1932, is the highest civil belfry in Europe. The project of its construction resulted from the destruction of the old town hall during the First World War.
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