Trip to Lille

Or Flanders, depending on how you look. The Flemish city of Lille is located on the border with Belgium, only 70 kilometers from Bruges and 100 from Brussels.

Its attractions are difficult to put in a line or submit a list, it is rather a French sauce that will both harmonize, and unexpectedly contrast with your impressions of visiting Belgium and expand your ideas about the cities of Flanders.

Empires grow and fall, cultures interpenetrate, and both are more visible at points of contact. The imperial luxury of France in combination with the comfort of the Flemish town, painting, architecture, cuisine of the north of France and the south of the Netherlands, I want to say wine, but in this part of the Lowlands still beer ... - the themes of a trip from Belgium to France.

I wouldn't call it a tour, we'll just walk around, and on the way we'll meet:

• City Station as the starting point of any journey
• Streets, canals, people
• Cathedral and Basilica Notre Dame de la Trey
• The citadel, or as the architect Vauban called it, the “Queen of the Citadels,” he built a hundred of them and knew what he was talking about.
• Paris Gate
• Grand Place Square
• Stock Exchange building, now book market and place where chess is played
• Belfort Tower
• Opera house
• Place de la Republique
• Prefecture building
• Museum of Fine Arts * second, after the Louvre largest collection of works of art in France