Europe: Lille
The old stock market building has a very nice front:
| Europe: Lille |
| Lille is one of the larger metropoles in France (4th after Paris, Lyon & Marseille) and is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium (an hour and 20 minutes away from our home). We went for a short visit on a sunday at the end of October 2008. We had great fun trying to park in the Grand Place underground parkade, which turned out to be open only to cardholders - hence we had to go back on a steep ramp in reverse! Here are a few pictures of our tour around the Grand Place: |
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The old stock market building has a very nice front: |
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| The city's opera house: |
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| A cathedral, but not the famous one ;-) |
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| The train station with a little row-fountain: |
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| We saw a lot of graffitis on buildings, one example here: |
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| On the ground floor there is a nice bakery (with the red sun screens): |
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| The new stock market building... under construction: |
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