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In its year as Europe's City of Culture, Lille hosted more than 2000 events in 2004.Its nine million visitors relished a real cultural feast at a European crossroads just 38 minutes from Brussels, 1hour from Paris and 1h and 40 minutes from London. Visit the different museums : Palais des Beaux-Arts (the biggest museum in France after the Louvre), the Maison Natale Charles de Gaulle (Lille is his birthplace), Museum of the Hospice Comtesse… Lille really deserves its title of City of Heritage and Art. Besides its colourful Flemish architecture and its narrow ornamented facades (of which the Vieille Bourse is a prime example), Lille has a rich and varied heritage. French classical style houses sit alongside the eclectism of " grands boulevards " or even the Maison Folie - these former factories (textile, brewery) that are experiencing a start as new cultural and meeting centres. Markets and regional food and drink specialities will also represent a delicious part of your stay. When are you coming to visit ? We warmly await you !
extract from the Lille Tourism Office's website www.lilletourism.com
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