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Lille (/ ˈ l iː l /, LEEL; French: ⓘ; Dutch: Rijsel; Picard: Lile; West Flemish: Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, within French Flanders.Positioned along the Deûle river, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France region, the prefecture of the Nord department, and the main city of the European Metropolis of Lille.
Passage to rue de Weppes. Located in the Lille-Centre district, it links Place du Général-de-Gaulle with Rue Royale and Rue de la Barre. From Place du Général de Gaulle, Rue Esquermoise crosses, on the left, the rue Saint-Etienne pedestrian street, on the right rue des Débris Saint-Etienne, named after the former church of Saint-Etienne, destroyed during the siege of Lille in 1792, on the ...
Map of Lille rail transit network (metro and tram) The Lille tramway (French: Tramway de Lille ) is a public transit system in the city of Lille in Hauts-de-France , France. The tramway is often called the Mongy , after Alfred Mongy , the engineer who created the interurban lines that make up the current system.
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Superimposition of a map of Lille today and a supposed map of Lille in the Middle Ages: the Grand Place is in the alluvial zone of the Deûle. Up until the 13th century, the site was occupied by the waters of the Deûle and by a marsh. Nearby was the alderman's hall, which burned down in 1213 and was rebuilt in 1233.
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Vieux-Lille (Old Lille) is a district in the north of Lille. It is the district with the most pre-19th-century buildings. It is the district with the most pre-19th-century buildings. It still boasts many cobbled streets and traces of the canals that crisscrossed the city in centuries gone by.
The building in Lille Kongensgade was demolished in 1881/82. Many of the buildings on the north side of the street were rear wings associated with properties on the more prominent main street Østergade. An example was A. C. Gamél's property at Østergade 27 (then 20) and Lille Kongensgade 33. It operated the first coffee roastery in ...