Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Lille, France

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Number of sights 24 sights
Distance 6.2 km
Ascend 110 m
Descend 111 m

Experience Lille in France in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in LilleIndividual Sights in Lille

Sight 1: Hôtel d'Avelin

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The Hôtel d'Avelin is a private mansion located in Lille, in the Nord department. It has been listed as a Historic Monument since 1944.

Wikipedia: Hôtel d'Avelin (FR)

123 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Ancien hôtel militaire des Bleuets

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The Hôtel Militaire des Bleuets is a private mansion located on Place aux Bleuets in Lille, in the Nord department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel militaire des Bleuets (FR)

359 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 3: Hôtel d'Ailly-d'Aigrenont

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The Hôtel d'Hailly d'Aigremont, or d'Ailly d'Aigremont, is a private mansion located at 45 rue de Roubaix in Lille. It is now the residence of the general commanding the Land Forces of the French army.

Wikipedia: Hôtel d'Hailly d'Aigremont (FR)

51 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Maison dite des Vieux Hommes

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The House of the Old Men is a house located in Lille, at 49 rue de Roubaix. Built in 1624, it was listed as a historical monument on 18 August 1944.

Wikipedia: Maison des Vieux Hommes (FR)

392 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Les tulipes de Shangri-La

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The Shangri-La Tulips are a public sculpture by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama located on the Esplanade François-Mitterrand in Lille, in the North, France. Seven meters high, this reinforced concrete work depicts a bouquet of colorful flowers, what tulips might look like in Shangri-La. Installed as part of Lille 2004, the sculpture is now one of the symbols of the city.

Wikipedia: Les Tulipes de Shangri-La (FR)

294 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 6: Caserne Souham

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The Souham Barracks or Saint-Maurice Barracks, is a former military barracks located on Place Saint-Hubert, in Lille, in the Nord department, France. Partially demolished in the early 1980s, the facades and roofs of all the remaining buildings as well as the enclosing walls of the barracks were listed as historical monuments in 1985.

Wikipedia: Caserne Souham (FR)

413 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 7: Église Saint-Maurice

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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.

Wikipedia: Saint-Maurice, Lille (EN)

365 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 8: Hôtel Ramery

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The Hôtel Ramery is a former private mansion located at 18 rue des Arts in Lille, in the Nord department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Ramery (FR)

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 9: Fontaine Wallace

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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.

Wikipedia: Wallace fountain (EN)

204 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Rang de Beauregard

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The Rang de Beauregard is a row of 14 private houses located on the Place du Théâtre in Lille. The range was listed as a historic monument on 8 June 1966.

Wikipedia: Rang de Beauregard (FR)

148 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 11: Bâtiment dit la Grande Garde

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The North Theater is a performance hall located on the Grand'Place in Lille in France. The theater has been installed in an old 18th century guarding body called La Grande Garde, listed in the inventory of historic monuments since June 27, 1925.

Wikipedia: Théâtre du Nord (FR)

167 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Palais Rihour

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The Palais Rihour is a building located on Place Rihour in Lille, in the Nord department of France. It 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.

Wikipedia: Palais Rihour (FR)

284 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 13: Hôpital militaire Scrive, ancien collège des Jésuites

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The Scrive Military Hospital or Scrive Regional Army Hospital, as it was last officially named, is a former hospital in Lille, in the Nord department, France. Adjoining the Saint-Étienne church, rue de l'Hôpital-Militaire, it was listed as a historical monument in 1945.

Wikipedia: Hôpital militaire Scrive (FR)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 14: Église Saint-Étienne

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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.

Wikipedia: Church of Saint-Étienne, Lille (EN)

232 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 15: Hôtel Petipas de Walle

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The Petipas de Walle Hotel is a private mansion located in Lille, in the Nord department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Petipas de Walle (FR)

65 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 16: Ancien canal de la Baignerie

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The Canal de la Baignerie, also known as the Canal de la Rue de l'Arc or the Canal de l'Arc, is a former canal of the city of Lille built at the beginning of the fifteenth century after the annexation by the city of the parish of Sainte-Catherine.

Wikipedia: Canal de la Baignerie (FR)

195 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 17: Immeuble, siège du Cercle Philosophique et Culturel

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The Masonic Temple of Lille is a building consisting of two buildings located in Lille, in the French department of Nord and the Hauts-de-France region, meeting place of the lodge "La Lumière du Nord" of the Grand Orient de France and headquarters of the Philosophical Circle of the Lille Metropolis.

Wikipedia: Temple maçonnique de Lille (FR)

245 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 18: Église Sainte-Catherine

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The Sainte-Catherine church is located on rue Sainte-Catherine in the Vieux-Lille district of Lille in the French Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region.

Wikipedia: Église Sainte-Catherine de Lille (FR)

542 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 19: Square Daubenton

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Square Daubenton is a square in the city of Lille.

Wikipedia: Square Daubenton (FR)

46 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 20: Lille à ses Fusillés

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The Lille Executed is a sculpted monument located in Lille, square Daubenton. It commemorates the execution by the Germans of five resistance fighters from the First World War.

Wikipedia: Les Fusillés lillois (FR)

182 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 21: Hôtel Catel-Béghin

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The Hotel Catel-Béghin is a private mansion located in Lille, in the Nord department.

Wikipedia: Hôtel Catel-Béghin (FR)

484 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 22: Palais Rameau

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The Palais Rameau is a building in Lille designed by the Lille architects Auguste Mourcou and Henri Contamine. It was classified as a historical monument in 2002.

Wikipedia: Palais Rameau (FR)

261 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 23: Église du Sacré-Cœur

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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.

Wikipedia: Église du Sacré-Cœur de Lille (FR)

909 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 24: Statue de Faidherbe

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Statue de Faidherbe

The Monument to General Faidherbe is an equestrian statue of the French general Louis Faidherbe, located in Lille. Designed by Antonin Mercié, cast by Thièbaut frères, it was inaugurated in 1896 on the Place Richebé and was listed as a historical monument in 1975.

Wikipedia: Monument au général Faidherbe (FR)

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