Lille Sights

  1. Chambre de Commerce

    Nearby place du Théâtre is dominated by the neo-Flemish Chambre de Commerce, topped by a 76m-high spire with a gilded clock. Both were built in the early 20th century.

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  2. Citadelle

    The greatest military architect of the 17th century, Sébastien le Prestre de Vauban, designed the massive Citadelle, shaped like a five-pointed star, after the capture of Lille by France in 1667. Built using some 60 million bricks, it still functions as a military base but around the 2.2km-long outer ramparts you'll find central Lille's largest park. On the southeastern side there's a children's amusement park and a small zoo (admission free).

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  3. La Voix du Nord

    On the southern side of place du Général de Gaulle, the 1932 Art Deco home of La Voix du Nord , the leading regional daily, has a gilded sculpture of the Three Graces on top. The goddess-topped column (1845) in the square's fountain commemorates the city's successful resistance to the Austrian siege of 1792.

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  4. Maison natale de charles de gaulle

    Maison natale de charles de gaulle . The upper-middle-class house in which Charles André Marie Joseph de Gaulle - WWII Resistance leader, architect of the Fifth Republic and ferocious defender of French interests - was born in 1890 has been turned into a museum that presents the French leader in the context of his times, with an emphasis on his connection to France's far north. Displays include De Gaulle's dainty baptismal robe and some evocative newsreels.

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  5. Vieille Bourse

    The Flemish-Renaissance Vieille Bourse of 1652, ornately decorated with caryatids and cornucopia, actually consists of 24 separate houses.

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